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

648 replies

Speeding201700 · 07/06/2020 09:54

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.

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Fenlandmum · 09/06/2020 12:40

Other countries are opening up their schools with facemasks compulsory for both pupils and staff - why can't we do the same for at least the secondary schools here? I appreciate that it may not be practical in primary school, and not everyone would be able to wear a facemask for medical reasons, however if it enables us to get more of our children back into school then surely its worth considering?

Alex50 · 09/06/2020 13:01

@WhyNotMe40 i’m willing to take that risk for my children, anyone who doesn’t want to send their children to school could carry on home schooling, that would help with social distancing.

Alex50 · 09/06/2020 13:04

@Fenlandmum I would be happy with that, as long as they get back to school.

user1471543094 · 09/06/2020 14:18

Been a lurker on MM for years...never felt compelled to contribute until now. I'm so glad I found this thread as everyone around me appears to be completely apathetic to children not returning to school and I'm beyond furious about it.
They'd had all support removed... extended family, friends, school...and no one seems to care! I'm so sick of the ' sure what can you do about it' attitude. Even angrier with the 'Its too dangerous!' attitude.
I've written to MLA (I'm NI) but they are next to useless.
I would march also. Anything to start this getting some attention.

Gunpowder · 09/06/2020 15:41

Welcome out of the shadows @user1471543094 Smile completely agree with the ‘oh what can you do?’ attitude. Nothing will change if we don’t make a fuss as this is affecting women and children rather than men.

gapp · 09/06/2020 18:33

Not one journalist asked a question on schools or how parents are supposed to work at today's press conference

Blueberryham · 09/06/2020 18:43

The Phillipines have said that schools won’t go back until a vaccine is available

Bluewavescrashing · 09/06/2020 19:02

Not one journalist asked a question on schools or how parents are supposed to work at today's press conference

I know. Am I missing something? Why is the entire country ignoring the fact there is NO PLAN to get kids back to school?

I'm a teacher, was at work today in my little bubble of year R kids. Simultaneously my year R and year 4 children were kicking around at home muddling though home school with DH on his break from WFH. I think maybe I need to utilise their key worker entitlement. I don't know.

Carycy · 09/06/2020 19:20

I think that one of the problems is that parents are scared about upsetting their head teachers and their children’s class teachers as they know they have to face them at some point.

I always got on with our head but it really riled me that he was sending out quite negative letters about going back and talking to parents individually saying he didn’t think they should go back till September. I sent an email stating my opinion and it was like I had smited him and all the teachers. My card is well and truly marked now. Most parents are not as outspoken as me and would never dare say anything as they don’t want to upset the Apple cart. I do think that an overwhelming majority do want their kids back in school really but are to scared to say it.

Weepinggreenwillow · 09/06/2020 19:23

I have been submitting questions about this to the briefings on a daily basis, always ignored of course. It is so bloddy frutrating to feel so unheard and so powerless. Angry
I have literally just googled "how to organise a lawful protest!" Apparently you need to inform the police if you plan to march, ideally 7 days in advance, but not if you are just going to protest. So I have learned something. Every day is a school day as they....except it isn't ...ever anymore it seems LOL

MissEliza · 09/06/2020 19:53

Signed the petition.

BackInTime · 09/06/2020 20:07

@Carycy Every interaction I have with a teacher they feel the need to tell me that they have been working during this lockdown, even if it's just a simple question about work DC has been set I get a defensive 'I have been working hard during lockdown monologue'. Many of us have been working in lockdown, I don't get it Hmm

BlessYourCottonSocks · 09/06/2020 21:20

I'm in Lincolnshire. This is what has happened in the 8 days since we opened our primary schools.

thelincolnite.co.uk/2020/06/ten-lincolnshire-schools-report-covid-19-infections-since-reopening/

I understand people want schools back, but it's not quite that simple.

ILoveMyMonkey · 09/06/2020 21:30

@BlessYourCottonSocks the cases mentioned in that article all refer to adults, there's nothing to suggest they caught it from the children or other staff at school - they could have caught it down Sainsbury's, not sure that article means anything really.

CountessFrog · 09/06/2020 21:34

Why do people who are in favour of continued lockdown insist on patronising language.

‘It’s not quite that simple’ is the same as ‘it’s not that simple’ but just a bit more patronising.

Barbie222 · 09/06/2020 22:22

@Doryhunky clear suggestions. Let's hope someone listens. I think Cummings has led Boris into the shit here. He did same for PR with parents when working for Gove.

CountessFrog · 09/06/2020 22:29

‘Welcome’

Is that like how our primary head spoke of ‘welcoming’ some years back, Whilst sending shouty emails in capitals saying ITS NOT SAFE?

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 09/06/2020 23:59

I will join a march. I am furious about it all. Are there any online petitions going?

CalmYoBadSelf · 10/06/2020 00:13

A friend is in senior management and tells me their problem is the union and a small but vocal minority of their teachers who are determined to undermine any plans to reopen. Her thought was this was they are left wing and more intent on causing problems for the government than on the interests of children

FiveFootTwoEyesOfBlue · 10/06/2020 00:23

Yes it's in the Mail, but this is a great article by David Blunkett, former Education Secretary (Labour)
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8404171/DAVID-BLUNKETT-failure-children-school-betrayal-young-lives.html

MarginalGain · 10/06/2020 07:23

I'm in Lincolnshire. This is what has happened in the 8 days since we opened our primary schools.

According to the article you posted, one parent and one teacher tested positive for coronavirus in the whole of Lincolnshire since the schools partially re-opened.

If this is sufficient cause to not open schools, then what's the criteria for opening them? Why don't you be direct, what's with the coy 'it's not that simple'?