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"I really do not know what the answer is to this but it occurs to me that yet again the Government has done an amazing job of turning us all against each other to the extent someone is telling teachers to resign which would clearly make things much worse."
This. Exactly this.
This isn't teachers' fault, or heads' faults or parents' thoughts, this is down to appalling, slow, stupid government policy, and we should be coming together on all that.
All parents and teachers are united in wanting children to have good, safe education, and we should focus on demanding that from the government, not snipe at each other.
Everyone has such different circumstances. I think, as they've bothered to go to the expense of buying free access to Oak Academy, that they should start by allowing any parent that can home educate to do so if they want without losing their place or being fined. They could write a statement to say they would be temporarily home educating, don't expect any materials or support from school (perhaps a curriculum overview), and they would take full responsibility for educating their child until Easter, for example.
That then benefits everyone, because classes would be slightly smaller. If the government gave grants to supply wifi access and some kind of laptop or tablet to all students who needed one, that money would never be wasted because those students are able to use it for essay writing and whatever anyway in 'normal' times.
That might allow even more children to study from home.
Some areas might be able to set up study centres in libraries, church halls, offices, to let older children self-study in a safe place.
I hate going back to WW2 as it's so over-romanticised, but when the blitz started, they used tube stations for people to shelter in, as well as home shelters. They thought creatively, according to the new situation. That's what humans have been good at and what's probably kept us alive in various climates and environments all over the world since we came about.
This government isn't thinking creatively. It's going about "full classes" because that's the traditional way of a decent education. It doesn't have to be. We can find new ways of doing things for a while, especially now we have so much technology.
Of course not every parent has the space, time, money or energy to home-educate. They may be front line workers, or people keeping the country going. But by giving more freedom of choice, then everyone benefits, even those who have less choice at the moment.