1600 paediatricians have written to the prime minister

[havefunpeleton]

Demanding schools reopen or risk scarring a generation. Reported in Times today.

I am hoping this will be the push needed to ensure this madness ends and all our children can go back to school full time in September.

@ohthegoats

Good job by the shower of a government. They've managed to get us all pissed off. Parents aren't happy, kids aren't happy, teachers aren't happy, the unions aren't happy.

We're all on the same side here. Everyone wants to have the kids back at school. Everyone wants to have the kids safely back at school. I'm going to assume that everybody wants staff to be safe in school too.

We should all be lobbying for permanent classes of 15 with 2 adults frankly. We should all by lobbying for children to have enough food to eat. We shouldn't be spending a billion pounds on tutoring to sort out 10 weeks worth of missed education (classes of 15 with 2 adults will smash that in half a term), we should be spending that on technology and Wi-Fi for vulnerable families to open up their worlds.

I'm glad everyone is seeing the chaos that is the DfE and lack of funding right in your faces. We get bashed for moaning all the time, but this is the reality of education in the UK. Underfunded and bottom of the pile. The Tories want an under educated people, it allows them to manipulate. Which is what is happening right now.

Quite right! Excellent post.

All of our teaching staff are back. There are 2 non teaching members of staff who are on unpaid leave.

Same here.