@LastGoldenDaysOfSummer
Let's not worry about the staff getting ill as long as the childcare is there, eh?
The health of the staff matters. I hear precious little understanding of this from parents, just demands that schools stay open and to hell with their health.
Nice.
That's not what anyone is saying, fuck me.
Schools have been around our whole lives, and the whole of our parents' lives, and our grandparents' lives, and there has never been a disruption to education like this.
So quite obviously we're not prepared for it.
School isn't 'childcare', but it IS a fact of life that we all have to go through, meaning you can assume that, during term time, you're okay to get a job as your child will be at school. Or you might assume that your parents could take care of your child.
Nobody, absolutely nobody, could ever have predicted this happening. It's not that nobody gives a shit about people working in schools. Of course we do. But that's like saying you're a bitch for wanting hospitals to stay open, and you don't care about the safety of the staff. Schools, like hospitals, are an important institution, and it's simply too disruptive to close them down fully again - certainly for the younger children, anyway.
Staff need more protection, that goes without saying. Schools should not close, but they should be made safer.