[quote BelleSausage]@BikeTyson
Why so angry? You seem determined to ignore the risks to staff. Just because children are safe does not mean that staff are.
Are you willing to accept that some staff will be hospitalised and become severely ill and possibly die because they were sent back to school with minimal protections?
Secondary school students spread the virus just as effectively as adults. That is what the studies say. The healthy ones might not get very sick. But their teachers will. Cherry picking points about younger kids does not help your argument.
Idk how anyone could ignore the human cost unless you see staff as not human and worth throwing under a bus to save the government time and money.
You haven’t been blinded by science. You’ve been present with the science that fits the conclusions you want to draw.
Children are probably safe, adults are not. Since schools contain both they need to be secure enough for both.
They are not secure for adults and staff will become sick. That is what will close schools.
The critical thinking ability of many people is so terrible that they cannot see this terrible flaw in the plan. It only take ten staff off sick to close our school. We teeter on the edge every winter. What do you think is going to happen this winter?
That’s right! Schools will start to close and education will be intermittent. How could this be prevented? By using social distancing to protect staff.
But it costs money. So it won’t happen.
Schools will be closed again by November. What a shit plan.[/quote]
From our (very long) school newsletter
"Needless to say, our teaching colleagues will be flexible. When there are staff absences, we will redeploy ...
We will be prioritising [exam years], which may mean that colleagues may be asked to switch teaching groups if other colleagues are away. Should staff absence rates rise significantly, we may send home particular year groups – the[ir] provision ... will then be [online]"
Having digested the information a bit, they are basically saying they are expecting an awful lot of their staff to be falling sick. They aren't making a fuss about it, they are planning for it, and they will be manning stations a bit like soldiers in a war.
I feel desperately sorry for these great teachers. It really isn't right that they are having to plug on with minimal safety provisions and such bad support and planning from this hopeless government.