We need to rise up about the lack of education for our children

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Please do this. Please join the Twitter movement #usforthem
Please write to your MPs
Please talk about this.

Our children are missing out on their fundamental human right of an education.

The children of regular families are suffering (all 5 of mine are suffering desperately), but those in vulnerable families are suffering even further. The gap between these children will be HUGE

I am a teacher and a mother. I am ready to go back to work full time and with the 'old normal'. I am also type 1 diabetic.

Please help us rise up to get our children educated. Our children have been totally forgotten about. Throughout my career I've had it rammed down my throat about how school is a safe place for so many children. They don't care about these children now.

I am amazed so many people have just accepted this. It has gone on for too long now.

You're not all in school though. I have friends who are teachers who are still at home

Erm....schools are following Government guidelines therefore not all teachers will be needed in most schools. I am working full time from home, live lessons 5 times a day. Take my pay by all means, but that’s one less qualified and experienced shortage area teacher you will struggle to replace. Past caring.

“I am working full time from home, live lessons 5 times a day.”

In a UK state school? If so: thank you. Seriously. So much. PLEASE tell me how we get the rest of them to do what you’re doing?

Absolute fucking hysterical disgrace

‘It’s the government’s fault for not providing guidelines’ HTH

‘I don’t trust the government guidelines, I’m not going back to work’ HTH

If my kids were younger I’d feel the same user32742534.

But with teenagers it’s different. They need time away from parents, independence, a different kind of learning etc

I’m awake now worrying about the effect this is having. It’s not good for older kids.

@Weepinggreenwillow

I haven't read the whole thread but completely agree with you letter on the first page. I too work in the NHS so my children go in to school but they aren't being taught anything. They get to do their inline learning, completely unsupervised and with no support. My 8 year old son is very behind, not meeting expectations and really can't read well yet. I doubt very much he is completing his work at all as I doubt he has a clue what he is supposed to be doing.

Their school has opened up for reception, years 1 and 6, but we have been told the other year groups won't be going back until September and that it is likely to only be a couple of days a week. Mine will have to stay in the key worker group and not get taught. It just doesn't make sense.

A gift, you have to be kidding.

I’m seriously worried about the mental health of my teens. Alongside that there is the huge worry about the damage done to their exams, worry about what the future holds for them, their physical and social health. They can’t work at their Sat jobs and save, learn to drive... For months they haven’t left the house other than for their hour of exercise, no going in shops even. I worry about uni for them, getting jobs. It’s had a massive impact. I too have been tossing and turning with worry most of the night.

At our primary school we have keyworker kids who previously haven’t been the biggest school enthusiasts coming every day since it all began simply because they say being at home is so boring. Lots of other kids want to come and are being turned away.

And still we hear nothing from the government. It’s frankly despicable. These kids deserve decent leadership, with a proper plan to get them back, something to work towards, information.....

The lack of the above is causing damage to mental health and support is non existent.

I strongly disagree. I feel my kids have been given a gift to be honest, to have all this time to just be and play and not be doing ridiculously pointless national curriculum work.

Really! If you feel that strongly take your kids out of school and home educate them permanently then they will never have to follow the pointless national curriculum.
I've watched my teen who is hard working, wants to do well and has plans for her future become a shadow of herself. She's incredibly social and loves going out and being with people, she needs the structure and teacher contact that school provides and whilst the novelty of being at home lasted a few weeks it very quickly wore off, it's not natural for kids to mix with no one but their family, to be cooped up indoors for months on end, I just can't get my head around anyone thinking the last 3 months has been a gift.

She's now stuck at home with no idea when she will return to school, trying to prepare for exams that we have no idea if she'll even take, the only contact she will have with a few of her teachers in 6 months is a brief Google Meet in the next few weeks, she meets friends for walks but says she's is worried about being outside in case she catches the virus.

It's been bloody awful and whilst I fully support the lockdown and the loss of life has been utterly tragic these kids now need to be told what plans are being made for them to get them back to school.

Just to add, the current Oak academy resources are very poor for my subject and it's a core one. Many advisers for the subject have been horrified at the quality of the resources. I agree our children need more, but we need engaging resources of a much better quality. .

Where is the petition?

I have previously submitted a question on this on the daily briefing (which was not addressed) and am going to do so again. Please everyone do this. Its quick and easy. The more people ask the more likely it is to get raised.

@user32742534

Agree to an extent. Some of the work is just pointless isn’t it? My children have had ample amount of time to play, but my children need lives and identities outside of the home as well as inside. I have three who enjoy playing with each other (10, 8, 5) but they’re all very much desperate too with their own friends and interests.

www.gov.uk/ask

The link to submit a question for the daily briefing.

Separate.... not desperate.

The problem with he daily briefing questions is they don’t answer them properly anymore. I can guarantee they’ll come back with a list of bigged up measures they are allegedly taking (which are beyond shite)and spin. They’ll say year 10 are getting face to face contact.2 days my ds is getting between now and September, not 2 days a week but 2 days in total. Others seem to be getting the same. They have GCSEs next year, I can’t monitor work as all accounts are in his name, presume he’s doing ok but who knows.

Don’t get me started on year 11.

And we’re both working full time.

lou I have submitted questions on this many times, sadly never addressed. But agree we should all keep doing so until it is forced onto the agenda.

Totally agree

Why aren’t the media hounding them re this?

I have no complaints over my Dcs particular schools. DD2 is getting about 50%of her timetable taught live online. Fun stuff - art, drama, PE - stripped out and other subjects reduced. DD1s large state 6th form has been amazing, and have many disadvantaged students to consider and have done so. They've considered each students needs as an individual.

But even so, this is unsustainable. Like wfh in these circumstances is not reflective of a usual wfh set up, online learning or home learning in these circumstances is nothing like choosing to study via distance learning
Or home education.

Children's social and emotional developmental needs cannot be met whilst they are isolated at home. That impacts all children and young people long term and to ignore that is one of the biggest travesties to come out of the handling of this pandemic (care homes, lockdown too late, dodgy track and trace contracts and app, lack of PPE, lying politicians being others!)

I've just followed up my email to our MP. I hope the Government pick up on this it needs addressing. My Year 1 child got back in to school last week as a key worker year 1 child dropped out so we had their place, being one of the few who had said they intended for their child to return. However a lot of my daughter's friends mums are expecting their children to be able to return in September as normal which with the current guidelines won't be possible with the school taking 98 pupils out of approximately 400+.

My year 13 was abandoned by his school mid March as his A levels were cancelled. We have heard nothing as to what is happening. I assuming his year 13 teachers who would have been teaching until May were teaching other years?

My year 10 now needs some direction. He is missing PE with his friends, his team sports (yet professional football is returning ....money) and his teachers. I’m fed up with him and his 18 year old brother being in the house all the time. It is a gift I agree And we have played board games, baked, run, walked together but it really isn’t normal for teenagers to be with their mum so much.

@nellodee

Lets just say hospital capacity is 10000. And say we only got to 9000 last time.

You do realise that if we let the virus double one more time, we would then have been at 18,000. It was doubling every two days.

No we weren't overwhelmed.

We were less that one week from being overwhelmed.

It's good to see you still trying to explain this to people! Thank you 🌷

The pandemic in 1968 did not cause schools to shut - millions of people died worldwide

and yet you want schools to fully open? Are you actively looking to increase the death rate?

I’m also not understanding the policy of some schools closing if a teacher or child tests positive. If an employee of a supermarket tests positive they don’t close the shop down. If a nurse tests positive they don’t close the hospital down. When my office colleague tested positive we carried on going into the office (front line). They did a deep clean and reopened. Otherwise how is the virus going to safely spread through the population? We can’t wait until a vaccine is found.