What's the plan b for schools?

[headshoulderskneestoes]

Is there one?

I know plan A is full opening in September with various rules that aren't very easy to implement or are a bit of a nonsense. But if the numbers continue to go up or things go wrong quickly, what then?

It's my understanding that the national curriculum was suspended at Easter? Is it back in place now? What will stop us going back to 'here have a worksheet' as there's no other really option?

My son is going into year 5, so 5 years of schooling and has already missed half of that (2.5yrs!) due to SEN, illegal exclusions, no school place for him and now covid. I'm desperate that he doesn't miss any more. He's at a autism school now and isn't able to work at home. Wish it was clear what the plan b might be!

@Fredocorleone

Can someone explain why it’s not possible to split schools into smaller groups by moving classes into community centres/village halls/sports centres etc? Or installing portakabins/portaloos/marquees as temporary classrooms? This seems such an obvious solution but has seemingly been discounted. Why?

I don’t understand why this hasn’t been done to expand the space available to schools.

I’m also seriously concerned it’s going to be a blanket nationwide decision ref school closures regardless of whether your area is actually hit by Covid cases or not. Our seven-day rolling average in our town is 0.3

Government have said no to chuch halls/community centres, there’s no money to pay for Portacabins, plenty of schools don’t have enough space for portacabins, and there isn’t a 50% surplus of teachers in this country.

Actually, that should be 100% surplus shouldn’t it? Sorry