Secondary schools are stuffed, GOVERNMENT ADMITS

[noblegiraffe]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55265098

Mass testing for secondary school pupils in worst affected areas.

@EndoplasmicReticulum

You have to wait until something affects London for anybody to notice. But - what use is the testing now, in the last week of term? Where was the testing in September?

They are worried about the spread to their own families on Christmas Day.

I am absolutely raging on behalf of my students and their families.

We haven’t been open to all year since last week of Sept. some year groups have had 5 periods of isolation. We have closed fully on multiple occasions when we couldn’t staff the school. My students have been anxious, they don’t know how long they’ll be back in school and for how long. My head has been begging for us to go to remote learning as we have now for multiple cases and wants to break the chain of transmission - we can see how pupils are infecting each other - yet dfe said no.

These pupils have had a rough time the past few months and have been forgotten as we are just a deprived city in the West Mids.

All those months of fudging the data and pretending that children were not transmitting the infection. What an insult to school staff who have had to go through this term experiencing it but being continuously told there is no problem.

London should have been in Tier 3.

@cantkeepawayforever

Honestly, I am SO angry.

Manchester? Leicester? Hull? Liverpool? Birmingham? Nothing to see here, move along...

London? HELP! Let's test the lot of them.....

The double standards are appalling.

I'm not entirely sure what I feel.

Angry, obviously, at the fucking useless shower of shit who have let schools struggle on this long behind a veil of lies and propaganda.

Angry at the way the North and other badly affected areas were blamed for the way covid ripped through their cities when there were easy measures that could have been implemented and weren't.

Angry that so many lives have been unnecessarily lost/affected due to inadequate mitigation measures.

Angry at the media for being totally complicit in the cover-up.

But also very, I don't know, I guess, relieved that the truth is coming out and things might change.

Our head asked the council today about mass testing after we closed down half a year group and sent home 3 groups today. Council can't tell us anything, then Handjob says they are working with Manchester to get mass testing rolled out? This was weeks ago and we still have nothing.

Be interesting to see if we are provided the data once it becomes known after this mass testing.
I don't recall seeing anything about the data regarding school age children in Liverpool

But - what use is the testing now, in the last week of term?

It keeps them a step behind. Before they weren't testing when they should have been. Now they are testing when they should be shutting the schools.

In other news today, bears defecate in the woods and the Pope is Catholic.

The double standards are absolutely disgusting. This government have never given a toss about anywhere north of London because it doesn't directly affect them.

It's a disgrace and I'd be absolutely livid if I lived up North in an area that's been affected badly and more so if I knew my child brought the virus home from school and someone in my family was/is gravely ill

Shutting the schools is last resort. I know many people on here want it. But I’m relieved testing is the way forward.

@noblegiraffe some posters who previously ridiculed you for previous threads most certainly owe you an apology.

@MarshaBradyo

Shutting the schools is last resort. I know many people on here want it. But I’m relieved testing is the way forward.

Maybe they read my wish list.

Maybe they should read further than item number 1.

DfE - re-examine masks and ventilation measures please. Plus funding for these.

It’s no coincidence that it’s 14 days before Christmas. Just enough time to quarantine the kids before they hug Granny.

[quote BertNErnie]@noblegiraffe some posters who previously ridiculed you for previous threads most certainly owe you an apology.[/quote]
I think they might be very quiet on this thread.

Noble after quite a few threads you know I agree - good they listened

And yes to other two

[quote BertNErnie]@noblegiraffe some posters who previously ridiculed you for previous threads most certainly owe you an apology.[/quote]
Hah.

When the data isn't made public falls down the sofa they'll just assume all is okay again because the Government haven't said it's not, therefore schools are safe.

Gosh, what a surprise - in areas where case rates weren’t already sky high, you can easily discern a link between schools and covid transmission. Who’d have thought it, eh?

PHE have instigated mass testing at the school I work at.
We are in the North West.

Yet another of these threads.

It's only in a small minority of worst affected areas, where numbers are rising.

It'll be interesting to see the results, I hope it works to bring transmission rates down there.

Secondary schools are not 'stuffed'. I'm very glad that both my DC have been in full time since September.