Secondary schools are stuffed, GOVERNMENT ADMITS

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

Mass testing for secondary school pupils in worst affected areas.

Considering all the many many other u-turns they have made over the course of the last nine months it is baffling that they're seemingly prepared to actually die on this hill.

Apparently, the first Waltham Forest parents knew about schools closing early was when they received a letter through the post today.

It's utterly crap of WF council not to have announced this online as soon as the decision was made to give parents time to organise childcare and also to give other boroughs the courage to make decision that they judge to be safest for their school populations.

If it takes my mind off this shit show of what's happening with schools I'll take it!

Apparently the newspapers are finally picking it up. Saw this on the Parents United site. It’s the Daily Star unfortunately but I suppose if even they are picking it up now.....

Another good one from the Guardian. It really feels as though light is finally dawning this week.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/dec/15/huge-gaps-in-classroom-time-for-pupils-across-england-figures-show?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

I will qualify that: in terms of publicising the dreadful situation many schools have been battling with since September.
In terms of government response, not so much 🙄

Yep. Finally they realise 🤦‍♀️
I wonder if they will do anything to prevent the risk to pupils and staff when they return to school January 🤔

Apologies if this has been posted on here, I haven't had time to catch up on the thread, this is interesting.
www.theguardian.com/education/2020/dec/15/huge-gaps-in-classroom-time-for-pupils-across-england-figures-show

[quote SophieB100]Apologies if this has been posted on here, I haven't had time to catch up on the thread, this is interesting.
www.theguardian.com/education/2020/dec/15/huge-gaps-in-classroom-time-for-pupils-across-england-figures-show[/quote]
Finally a journalist has realised how unfair this is and been willing to publish it.

Schools in my area are really going pear shaped. Kids being sent home left right and centre. Running 'live lessons' for students in & out of school. Honestly, a joke - Anyone who thinks 'live lessons' to a class of 30 split in and out if classroom is the answer has not got a clue. Technology rubbish, most staff buying their own kit. I must have had 6 positive students in my classroom, two front row. One positive department member in a room where we have to work as nowhere else to go. No information about positive cases, all information through 3rd party. It really feel like just waiting to be infected. Staff & families not following basic isolation rules at all. Won't bother contacting MP. Contacted three times and ignores the point & questions just quotes party line back - thanks Laura Farris, your children in state school?

I think its shocking that they dont tell people the real figures. Especially staff!!

I really think journalists should just publish the measures taken in schools elsewhere vs in the Uk. That would tell its own story.

There was a Unicef site that was showing all the measures in many developing countries and on that site, their measures were all better than ours - mask wearing being the main one but other things too (like two bus runs rather than one to ensure social distancing on buses).