Oh that's a shame, it's turned into a school bashing thread again.
People need to accept that schools will have made decisions on closure learning based on the best for the whole community of children and families. It's not fair, but schools were given 2 days to sort it out, no extra funding, and at the point of closure, no guidance on how to deal with any of it. At that point staff were off, children were off (in my big inner city primary we had 30% of children in school on that last day) - many staff who should have been home as vulnerable or even shielding, were not in order to get to the line. Since then there have been lots of suggestions for home learning given by the DfE, none of it is 100% right for any given school. Schools cant physically provide, or afford, packs of stuff to go home for all children, and they cant afford to provide the technology, wifi or data for all the children who haven't got it. Staff themselves live in shared houses, so cant film lessons in the bedrooms for safeguarding reasons. There cant ever be a situation where you're on a phone call or zoom call, on your own with a child. By providing anything online, you're adding to the unfair advantage for some/not others issue.
Teachers are being paid 100% of salary by the gov. If they were furloughed, they'd have less stress and less insult being thrown at them from people like you guys, and would have been given 80% of their salaries by the government. All teachers are still working, I guarantee that all the teachers in my school are working more than 20% of their hours. They aren't costing 'you' any money, and a big % of them aren't sleeping at night with stress. Lots have children and partners who also need to work at home. My partner gets up at 5am and works until 12.30 while I do childcare, then I set up my lessons in the afternoon and record them after 5 (when partner definitely wont be getting work calls, and child is on TV time). I work until 9 most nights making sure my lessons only need a pencil and a piece of paper. A tiny % are being a bit lazy, but that's for their SLT to worry about, not you. Those SLT will probably have been up literally all night some nights trying to get the free school meals vouchers sorted out, because the gov have screwed that up, they are also in school more often than not providing safeguarding cover, making phone calls to parents, etc.
In terms of engagement with home learning, 50% of private secondary schools is the highest %. My school is hovering around 10%. I still do the lessons, because if 1 child enjoys it and does the work, then I've succeeded for the day. Lots and lots of children are missing out, loads will have to be relearned. Remember thought, the time we've been off is 5 weeks - still less than the school summer holidays. Anyone who has ever taken their child out of school for a holiday or a day out, has no moral high ground hereby the way.
Schools need to go back. Teachers do NOT want to do what they are being asked to do right now. It's not what we trained to do. I for one am hating it, and am wondering whether I can cope with the next 2 years in the classroom working around this virus. Day after day on here, the toxic anti teacher stuff is rife. Be annoyed at your furloughed colleagues or whatever, they are the ones in the best position right now in amongst all this shit. Apart from maybe hedge funders, they seem to be ok.