Sec of State for ed on now presenting about schools

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"rolling out computer equipment" to pupils, especially vulnerable

@greenstream only for children with allocated social workers.

He is getting on my last nerve lolling at the stand.

and I don't mean laughing out loud

I think it is a joke and an embarrassment.

Has he explained what this additional help and long term approach is going to be, which seems to be his standard answer when anyone mentions summer school

Excellent question about online live teaching for state schools brushed off

They cannot give every child in the country a laptop.

Dr Offord MP : if pupils are wearing masks to travel on public transport to school for safety, why discard them whilst at school ? Question brushed off.

@hippy A tablet device costs around £50 at cost and is fine to access zoom / teams / meetup

That's because if they say we need them at school, they will have to provide them.

Still not giving details of what the long term approach is going to be

I literally can't watch anymore. Once again they're not giving any clear and direct answers. The impact of this educational atrocity is going to be much more insidious than the virus itself.

We have tablets in school. They regularly fail. Every child in the country would need one or parents will complain that their child is missing out if they have to use their own older model.
Idiots will film a teacher's lesson, put negative comments on the video and upload it to the internet.
We already had a thread on here where a parent was upset because her husband was interrrupting the lesson that was being provided live to her child.

I always end up shouting at the tv when he is on. Just answer the bloody question!

My providing comment was re masks not tablets.

Does anyone else think he sounds (and looks) a bit like Michael Crawford in Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em?

Look at the % level of smartphone ownership in teens in UK. It is in the 90s%. That works fine for zoom / teams / meetup

www.statista.com/statistics/271851/smartphone-owners-in-the-united-kingdom-uk-by-age/

He sounds right like Michael Crawford! Just had to turn him off..what a wet blanket

A local university tried to do a zoom lesson for primary children, someone leaked the password to the room and child porn was streamed.
I totally agree that we are in a hard situation. I don't know what the answers are, those of us that are in schools are aware of problems that will occur and at that level, we are doing our best.

Did they say anything about the educational future for pupils who have been asked to shield?

And those who come from a household where someone is shielding and isolation within the home is not realistic? Or who are medically vulnerable?

Or for any pupil who is required to quarantine for 14 days?

I find it hard to watch any more.
It seems to me there is no plan.
Brushing off all short- / medium-term education plans saying it needs to be long-term but not giving any long-term plan either.

I think we are currently on plan K from Plan A and it changes as the guidance changes. To be fair, we are learning daily about the disease and things change in accordance with that.

Without wishing to be morbid, was the Glasgow MP implying that the two pupils that died in Scotland died from Covid?

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Look at the % level of smartphone ownership in teens in UK. It is in the 90s%. That works fine for zoom / teams / meetup

The youngest cohort is 16 - 24 year olds on that graph.

It's hardly proving how many 11 - 15 year olds have phones