Spot on noble but I'd add 'making money for their friends in the 1%' to the 'prioritising' list. E.g. test and trace fiasco.
It's not about people who want to open schools and those who don't, it's about doing a proper risk assessment and determining risk reduction measures which are adequate for the children and teachers to return. They've got the whole summer to plan and get things in place, there is no reason, none, that this couldn't be done.
These have been done in well run countries (the ones where there are fewer deaths and where the economy isn't suffering as much) and there are a number of measures they've put in place BEFORE schools opened - test and trace, masks (either all the time or in corridors and and playtime) social distancing, blended learning, sufficient soap.
Our Government appears to have looked at the issue briefly, decided following the science or doing a risk assessment is too much like hard work and decided to go back to normal, wash hands and cross their fingers. But washing hands didn't work out that well for Boris did it?
They're not going to give schools any extra money (despite pissing millions up the wall on the failed test and trace apps their mates are profiting off as well as giving multimillion pound contracts to tiny pest control companies - and of course bailing out the banks a while back).
I guess ensuring that schools have resources for a bit of social distancing, masks and sufficient handwashing equipment is just too hard and it doesn't profit them and their friends so, frankly, stuff it. The private schools (where their kids are) will be ok, they can follow the sensible guidelines in other countries as they've got the money and space.
We need to hold our government to account, however much we desperately want schools open. How is it that our self-respect has got so low - that we're willing to accept something so clearly rubbish for all of us? That will so obviously result, sooner or later, in another lockdown (individual schools or whole towns)?
No-one is saying don't open the schools, what they're saying is that the government is failing to provide what the schools need to open. Because they are.