When will schools get back to normal?

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My DC have had multiple episodes of self isolating between them because of cases in their classes. I'm not complaining as I understand the need for this and schools have been amazing with home learning. But wondering when self isolating at schools will be a thing of the past?

@noblegiraffe

Even if teachers aren’t dying (which we don’t know because that data isn’t being published), we should want to avoid them getting infected and having to take time off work, in many cases several weeks, and in some cases, months. The DfE has stopped publishing teacher absence data during this second lockdown, presumably to cover up that impact.

I wonder if they are still collecting that data even if it’s not being published.

It would be interesting to see a FOI request on that!

Though, the way it would be reported would probably be so misleading, it wouldn’t be worth the paper it was written on!

@mumsneedwine

The easy answer is never if staff continue to get ill at the current rate. As by next spring there won't be enough healthy teachers left. Long term issues are real and mean many staff won't come back full time. I don't think anyone will believe me. Until Easter when schools are running part time due to retirement and lack of staff.

I believe you.

Everyone is moaning about teacher a sense and closures.

What they don't realise (or choose to ignore) is there is already a recruitment and retention crisis.
What's going to happen when those who are employees are too ill to return, resign due to working conditions or even worse - suffer fatal Covid?

[quote Thatwentbadly]@Aragog it’s those who are classed as ECV who were asked to shield.[/quote]
The priority lists both very vulnerable and moderately vulnerable in the age categories. Not just the CEV or have they now changed it and CV aren't included anymore?

Do you know that the younger teachers didn’t catch it? Were they tested?

Not sure if they had it with no symptoms earlier on when the rest of the staff were testing positive, but a number of the younger staff have recently been ill with cold like symptoms, headaches and a couple with a new cough. They've all tested negative though in the last couple of weeks, except one.

@Appuskidu they are still collecting the data through the daily coronavirus attendance return all schools have to do for the dfe. It has a page that asks how many teachers are absent and for what reason, and another that asks how many other staff are absent and for what reason. They clearly are squirrelling away the info, realising how bad it is, but publishing it and then lying through their teeth to give weight to the lie that schools are not places of high transmission

That should say but NOT publishing it

They clearly are squirrelling away the info, realising how bad it is, but publishing it and then lying through their teeth to give weight to the lie that schools are not places of high transmission

I hope there is an investigation into how schools have been treated at the end of all this.