Why aren't the government being given more credit for prioritising education?

[annabel85]

The government have risked a lot by putting schools first, selflessly knowing that a second wave would reflect badly on them. This is how it's turning out, but they're still even now fully committed to keeping schools open.

They could have just had blended learning or even carried on demanding tutoring from home for the the winter term, but they've stuck their necks out by getting every child back to school.

Basically, just a reality check for people who are criticising the government at the moment. They've made big mistakes but the kids are their priority and they deserve credit for that.

Brave op posting something like that on here

@Concerned7777

children always have been and Continue to be the very bottom of the pecking order

That’s because they don’t make money. We always suspected that schools were thought of as just glorified childcare but now we know for sure.

Selfless? You have to be joking surely? Arrogant, offensive truth twisters was so much more accurate.

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Are you alright? Your kids can be used as guinea pigs not mine.

I honestly think school staff and children have been so let down. It's ridiculous that no-one outside of education seems to know or care about the situation unless directly involved. They'll look back on this in years to come and ask how it was allowed to happen.

It's an absolute shit show.

No. 35 my local PHE and DC school didn't know the one positive case bursting the entire year group bubble rule had been removed and closed a year group today. Think they are now trying to resolve it now.

To be fair - and I suspect I know the school you are mentioning - at this point, closing the bubble is almost certainly the only available option, because it has been 4-5 days since the child in question was in school. In that time, their initial close contacts could have become asymptomatically infected, and then further passed on the infection to others. Rather than spend time and effort working out all the close contacts across the whole school day, travel to and from school, social contacts etc etc (and possibly miss some of the wider or secondary infections), it's probably most effective to send everyone home, get cracking on mass home learning for a couple of weeks and go again. By the end of the 14 days I suspect that the situation nationally will be so poor that a single closed year group will be as nothing.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you have not actually been into a school during this pandemic? 🤣😂
Lol putting education first.... 🤣😂

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah OP

They haven't prioritised education, they have prioritised the economy.
They need children to be in school/childcare so the adults can go to work.
It wasn't some noble gesture for the good of the next generation!

@noblegiraffe can we print your 9:40 post in very big letters and get everyone to read it?
I am a little in love with you for writing it all out so clearly - thank you xx

Are you on glue?

OP, you are either a complete wind up merchant or terribly naive. Surely it must be the former, because nobody is that dim.

You are deluded.

@littlemsattitude

Are you on glue?

Cos if you're not you should be.

OP thank you, made me laugh out loud 😂

Hi Gav , nice try.

Don’t be so naive op!!

Government don’t care about the kids at all!! It’s about getting them back into childcare so parents can get back to work

If they cared about kids and their education there would be cash thrown at the schools also.....there’s not!

Fantastic thread Op. 🤣

Please come to my region where 50 plus schools have been impacted in the first week.

Tell my two year 10s, one of whom now has to SI for 14 days, that all will be well for their GCSEs.

This Govt doesn't give a flying fuck about schools OP. It cares more about free burgers, Grouse shooting and football.

They are headless chickens with no plan for education and you are being a CF.

The year 11s this year are going to be really disadvantaged by all this, even more so than the ones who would have done their exams in may.

@titchy

For the economy to run, schools need to be open or many many people can’t work.

This^^ If they were acting selflessly about kids' education they'd be closing pubs and restaurants, making sure there was testing capacity and given schools £££ to make their sites covid secure, provided resources for kids that are still unable to return to school. And perhaps not utterly fucked up exam results.

This

Never in all the time of being on MN have there been so many posts to think "bless, do they really believe that" and wonder about the IQ of the OP.

Is this a joke?

Or a reverse?

The government's re-opening of schools with cases on the rise, severe lack of testing, track and trace a joke, no masks, no temperature checks, no distancing and massive 'bubbles' that never pop because they only send close contacts home anyway is actually bordering on criminal.

There's been three cases in my son's school already and we're on the watchlist for local lockdown.

But no, hey ho, let's carry on regardless.

My anxiety is through the roof, bit it's the teachers and other school staff I feel really sorry for. They've been thrown to the wolves.