Keir Starmer's kids at school

[SoHereWeAre01]

So Labour Party supports the teacher's union in opposing schools reopening on 1 June....

Whilst the the leader of the Labour Party has his own children currently attending state school....

Hypocrisy of the political establishment...

This is ridiculous. Both Keir and his wife are key workers (she works for the NHS) by any definition unless Dominic Cummings has decided that there shouldn't be any opposition to the government in theory as well as practice. This "story" isn't trending on Twitter so even the bot army knows there's no scandal here.

The unions and the Opposition are all supportive of the children of key workers being in school so there's absolutely no hypocrisy.

@ChasingRainbows19 Aside from
OP crap point... we are going to have a second wave anyhow. This will peak in winter like flu. It’s inevitable, even if we have a vaccine which will only protect from the strains they identify now to design against, before its morphs - just like winter flu.

@SoHereWeAre01 What a ridiculous post. My best friend is a nurse, she doesn’t enjoy sending her children to school but she has no choice! He is a key worker, it’s different to opening the school up to three year groups.

He really has got the Tories scared hasnt he? There’s proper opposition to Boris at last and they don’t like it. I’ve never voted Labour in all my 30 years of voting and was a member of the Conservative party some years ago but I might give Keir a chance - the state school supporting donkey loving bastard!

@PurpleFlower1983 why is it different to opening up a school to 3 year groups?
Key workers - nurses, super market workers, delivery drivers etc

BUT the rest of the country needs to get back to work to save years and years of misery economically which will hugely impact death via suicide, death via cancelled ops and cancer treatment etc. We are over the peak. The NHS can cope now. We need to protect the rest of society.

His family wouldn’t qualify for school places in Scotland.

@Hoppinggreen Brilliant!

Hi Dominic! Are you trying to throw this particular dead cat from your London home or your parents house in Durham? 😂

It's just that none of BJ's kids are of school age, iiirc

Just the one does, I think. But since I don't think he's ever bothered to meet her, I shouldn't think he cares all that much about her schooling.

Here’s what the bastard said. Shocking!

*Speaking to the Telegraph's Chopper's Politics podcast, Sir Keir said: "Our children have been in school throughout [the coronavirus crisis] and it's a reminder that this perception that schools are shut at the moment and the question of whether we open them is wrong.

"They're open at the moment, teachers, staff are on the frontline, every day. The question is, can we increase the numbers of children going back into school, and I want that to happen as soon as it can. But of course it's got to be safe."*

Not all schools are the same, OP.

HTH.

Daft post.

I just need to know what half a working parent is....

I was a Lib Dem voter but if Keir can reign in the loony left I will definitely switch dh and my extended family all feel the same. If enough of us that way inclined ditched the LDs could be interesting.

Nice try, OP.

I though you were going to say they were very well behaved. Or very naughty. But apparently they’re just...at school. Like lots of other key workers’ children. Gosh.

I live in the Netherlands and the primary schools are back for 50% and will be returning for 100% on June 8th. It seems to be going well here with the organization. The government stated that primary schools should return for 50% and left it to the head teachers and school boqrds to determine how to manage it. The key workers children remain at school for 100% although they are isolated 50% of the time.

Ridiculous post. My dgs has to go to school otherwise his key worker parents wouldn’t get paid. My dil would love the luxury of not having to send him.
She doesn’t know how safe he is but as long as only key workers are sending their dc the numbers are small and social distancing is easier.

OP: Again, I think the reason is partisan and not science or ideological.

This British Medical Journal article explains why a delay makes a difference. Are they 'science' enough for you? I think you are the very definition of partisan, OP.

This is a non story ..parents are key workers.

Surely if Keir feels his kids are safe at school, he should support the gradual return of children of non key workers?

Do you understand the difference in numbers between a handful of key workers children and 3 year groups (albeit at different times)?

OP completely missing the point. Having a limited number of children of key workers in school is completely different to getting whole year groups back. In any case, he is not saying don't get kids back to school. He is saying there needs to be clarity about how it is done.

You aren't talking nonsense OP.

OP crap point... we are going to have a second wave anyhow. This will peak in winter like flu. It’s inevitable

I think this is why they are pushing getting DCs to school. We had some nasty flu cases round here in Dec and Jan. 40 year olds with pneumonia. If there is no immunity next year when the usual flu bugs arrive we are going to go through all this crap again as the NHS, which is always creaking at the seams in the winter, will be in real trouble with Covid too.

All those prolonging lockdown, keep this in mind

But as working couple, both with full on jobs, looking after a Y1 child is nigh impossible. On balance, it makes sense for schools to reopen

Would you be saying that if your child were in Y2, OP?

He's a key worker. So schools are currently relatively safe with limited numbers attending and social distancing easier to enforce.
A mass return of kids is a different thing altogether.

@Casiloco our school have a good plan. It keeps half a normal class plus a teacher in a bubble of contact.

Keyworkers could now be defined those propping up our economy.