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Children of self-isolating teachers

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SaltyAndFresh · 13/08/2020 00:35

It stands to reason that with no social distancing, huge bubbles and limited access to hand-washing, swathes of secondary schools in particular are going to end up with groups self isolating. I can't think of a other sector where so many people are in close contact and in confined spaces for so long, but please correct me if I'm wrong (I'll have around 180 per day and 300 different students per week).

If teachers have to self isolate, their own children will have to stay at home too, thus disadvantaging them more than ever. While our children's teachers remain in the classroom, there will be no provision for online learning. I know there will be plenty turning up here insisting that children don't transmit the virus but we know, even if we choose to ignore the elephant in the room, that over 10s very much can. But where do teachers' children stand in all this? Presumably if we're self isolating we're still delivering teaching online, so couldn't home educate even if we tried (I have no experience of KS2 so would struggle anyway).

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BumbleBeee69 · 13/08/2020 15:44

Sorry to hear that Minnieok .. I hope these future months are kinder to you 🌺

SlipperSwan · 13/08/2020 16:03

@BumbleBeee69

Im a teacher, been working at school since March as usual. Must be nice to have been at home safe or WFH as lots of office workers have been able to, but lots of us couldn’t do that and just had to wait and see how bad the virus got

SaltyAndFresh · 13/08/2020 17:21

I wasn't scare-mongering, no. I thought if one person in a household had to self-isolate, everyone in the house would have to. I'm glad for my DCs that that's not the case but it also seems counter-intuitive that one person might have it but those they love with will just be carrying on as normal. Not sure how the school run would work. Time will tell - this is going to be complicated!

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