Will schools be closed until 2022?

[JillAndJack1]

Sorry, another schools thread.
I’ve just looked at the guardian, it says social distancing may need to be maintained until 2022, if this happens then surely schools will be closed until then? When schools go back social distancing will end. Obviously nobody actually knows, but curious to hear people’s thoughts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/coronavirus-distancing-continue-until-2022-lockdown-pandemic

I’d love to see all of the workplaces that allow people to work half days in order to drop off/collect their primary age children in a shift system.

Of course parents could then access the 7.30-6 wraparound service that we offer to allow them to work office hours....but wait, then all of the children would be in all day anyway...

Well people that are fairly fit and healthy need to get the virus and get better. If there are zero cases then when we all come out numbers will surge again... slowly allowing people to go back to work/school etc with shielding of the really vulnerable to continue.

Most children and most fit and healthy under 50's don't die...(I said most - there will always be some that sadly do die)

Thank you for giving my husband and I a giggle, he didn't believe the hysteria I was telling him about on here

@StrawberryJam200

They seem to think social distancing is achievable in schools, ha ha... (I work in one.)

Social distancing isn't really achievable anywhere. We are all fooling ourselves.

Sitting in rows and doing different teaching activities doesn’t change the square footage of a classroom - plus in my subject where we use computers every lesson they’d have to either rip out all the benching and reinstall it and all the computers (very expensive and time consuming) or only be able to use about 1/3 of the computers at one time to keep 2m apart from each other.

All this talk of shifts and weekends and splitting classes doesn’t change the fact there’s only so many hours in a day and so many teachers, it’s physically impossible to teach twice as much as I do so every class would have to have half the teaching. Which, ok, this is unusual circumstances but the rest of the time they need access to good computers and college equipment and that’s a bit of a nightmare to organise when they’re all in one room let alone spilt up! There are some suggestions which are easy to make quite blithely but have very very profound repercussions on staffing and facilities.

No. Next.

BooseysMom
Of course it's a bloody joke!
Have you not seen any of the endless "teachers are lazy fuckers" threads on here?
Anyone would think we concocted the virus in a lab ourselves.

Err....

This site has finally jumped the shark

Agree, been thinking this for a while but it's fucking batshit at the moment.
Seriously

OP - The key word in that article is may. So that means something may happen or it may not. So a non story, not worth worrying about.

No they won’t be closed until 2022 for several reasons

1- there will more than likely be a vaccination by then.

2- most people will have had it in some form anyway by then

2 it would kill the economy off. Not just put it in to recession, but literally the system would collapse in every which way and the affects would be felt for decades thereafter.

4- whilst it’s a serious disease and we need to be vigilant, I believe the true figures of those who have had it will be much higher than what is know currently. Subsequently the death rate will be lower and it won’t be deemed as serious as it is currently.

Of course that’s all in hindsight in a year or two but I do believe that’s what will happen.

I think schools will be back in September at the latest and quite probably mid June

.(I said most - there will always be some that sadly do die)

Yeah, well let's just hope that it's not "sadly" one of your nearest and dearest that happen to die then, eh?

@BertNErnie, Be careful there. I made a crack in a similar vein and someone has taken it seriously.

I don't think so! I hope not! I work in school, and while a bit of unexpected time at home is quite nice, I can't imagine being away from my job that long. I actually enjoy my work.

I think schools will be back in September at the latest and quite probably mid June

Contrary to what most MNers appear to think of teachers, I hope and pray it's June too.

*Will schools be closed until 2022
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Fuck off! My heart nearly stopped when I read that!

Amotherof6

“Well people that are fairly fit and healthy need to get the virus and get better”.

Yes good idea, but will only work if getting it once gives immunity. No other Covid visas eg common cold do apparently.
If you get it a second time it may be worse. Does it lie dormant, like chickenpox and present in a different way? Who knows, I don’t think the scientists do. Be careful what you wish for imo.

The article doesn’t say this at all, it says we’ll get waves of infections, probably annually, maybe for next few years. Immunity unlikely to last for more than a year - at best 5. This seems pretty realistic to me - wanting them world to go back to normal by the summer doesn’t mean it’ll happen. This is how things will be for a while. Schools will go back , but will also close again. It’s very sad for our children tbh but they’ll be ok, life will adapt.

Another teacher here who thinks it could be June in England, and can't wait to get back and see the kids and feel more normal!

Don’t be ridiculous.

What is it with newish posters and batshit scaremongering?

2022. Some parents will be dumping their kids at the council office doorsteps well before then

no of course they won't!

No, don't be ridiculous.

What is the school obsession - at some point from I suspect June at the latest we are all going to have to make the decision whether or not to go into the big wide world go into offices, travel on tubes make an attempt at a normal life for which school will be a part of.

And we are going to have to take the risk because otherwise more deaths and destruction will come. We cannot stay hidden forever.

If it starts to raise again then we may have to bring back restrictions and it may ebb and flow for awhile

And a vaccine could be as soon as the end of this year!