Vulnerable pupils and teachers should be able to stay at home and be supported financially.
I doubt that will happen.
They may say the shielded can stay home perhaps, if we are lucky.
But I doubt they'll include the clinically vulnerable (so vulnerable but not shielded) in this.
By saying that clinically vulnerable staff and children need to stay away from school they'd have to admit that schools aren't really Covid safe and that they've been putting staff and children at risk throughout. They won't want to do that.
I was fortunate in the first lockdown on that my headteacher managed to keep all vulnerable staff working from home. I spent the time working full time from home overseeing our home learning. But I doubt we can do that this time.
I also suspect that because I've now had Covid that when I am able to return (currently signed off for up to a month and awaiting gp follow up late next week) I will be treated as immune and be in my same role teaching across school with no SDing etc again. The complications I've different from Covid means that I have another issue that adds to my vulnerability now.
I just hope that I really am immune. I'd like to think so. But no one really knows for sure it seems. Reinfection seems to be low but half the time it's hard to determine what is really the case.
It's like the school case numbers. I know many of these aren't being officially recorded and the true level of numbers in individual schools isn't being shred with parents, let alone further afield.
Lots of parents still believe that children don't get Covid and don't spread it. My personal experience suggests this isn't actually the case.