Secondary schools are stuffed, GOVERNMENT ADMITS

[noblegiraffe]

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

Mass testing for secondary school pupils in worst affected areas.

It was just for secondary schools wasn’t it? Primary schools would stay open more or less? It all sounds fed very sensible as a basic national policy

Just got an email from school that they had 3 cases in 3 days which is way more than before and a huge escalation.

the head decided that contract tracing would go into xmas, so monday is the last IRL day, then TU/WED will be online and then they break up as planned.

This is the normal response. Taking into consideration pupils and teachers. This should not be the privilege of private schools as it's basic human right (health) issue. The fact that state schools are not allowed to do this makes me want to scream and I sympathies with everyone going/working in those.

@BungleandGeorge

It was just for secondary schools wasn’t it? Primary schools would stay open more or less? It all sounds fed very sensible as a basic national policy

Yep-astounding to bother to write it all down and publish it as ‘the plan’ and then to never ever use it?!

Yes, primary schools would have stayed open in all scenarios except a (proper) lockdown.

I’ve just received an email from my head. We are again shut to all years from now until the end of term as we have multiple cases in ALL years 8-13.

7-13.

We received an email tonight. My y10 son is now in his sixth period of SI due to cases in school. He also caught Covid there previously.
It is destroying life.

Blimey!

@middleager Sucks being in the West Mids.
Totally forgotten aren’t we?

Our local primary school is shutting for one day tomorrow as loads of cases came in positive Saturday night. A deep clean is being done. Not sure if it'll open up again next week or not but it might do?
The schools in our area are really struggling.

Absolutely mother

Lovely article in the Sun today No wonder people believe all the rubbish the government tell then about ‘safe’ schools @

@middleager I am so sorry for your son.
Our Yr 10s, 12s and 13s have been out of school more than the have been in. Yr 11 has been half and half. It makes me so angry that our pupils will be pitted against those who had no isolations and I’m disgusted that as soon as London had a whiff of rising numbers then there is suddenly school testing.

I imagine it's the government who told them to print it tbh.

@Cantholdonanylonger

Lovely article in the Sun today No wonder people believe all the rubbish the government tell then about ‘safe’ schools @

I saw that on my Facebook feed. Scummy.

How anyone on Mumsnet can pretend that teachers are a protected species is anyone’s guess.

[quote motherrunner]@middleager I am so sorry for your son.
Our Yr 10s, 12s and 13s have been out of school more than the have been in. Yr 11 has been half and half. It makes me so angry that our pupils will be pitted against those who had no isolations and I’m disgusted that as soon as London had a whiff of rising numbers then there is suddenly school testing.[/quote]
This is exactly how I feel. He's had 45 days not in school this term and he caught the virus which then threw my other Y10 (different school) into his second self isolation.
It is a postcode lottery.

I believe the Sun has a reading age of 8.

Says all we need to know about that.

Nod, smile and scroll on by.

Our SLTs have worked tirelessly above and beyond and so have their staff. Open throughout the crisis and made it as secure as they possibly could.
The Sun should be ashamed.

The sun has no shame.

That Sun article is a disgrace. I have actually made a complaint about that journalist , If that’s what you can call him.

Oh motherrunner and middleager are you in the same place ? sounds absolutely terrible 😞

Apparently the gutter press idiot who wrote this for the Sun once said he thought about being a teacher in the past but would get sacked for trying to 'shag' the students 🤮 Atrocious that it is acceptable for someone pile that to even comment. He is not for to enter a school, never mind comment on what he knows nothing about. Utter scum.

The Sun is full of “journalists” too cowardly to put themselves in harm’s way by actually entering the real world and doing some proper investigative journalism. Still, I’m not sure they know how to do anything that doesn’t involve illegal phone tapping.

@starrynight19 I think @middleager is Walsall (?) although I maybe mistaken, if so I’m Im the next area.

And yes, it’s been awful for a while.

@Danglingmod

Yes Bungle, there was a tiered plan for schools which was published and then instantly dropped.

Not only that, schools were TOLD to make contingency plans for each tier, which we duly did. Total waste of time...

Completely. Disgraceful.