Statement in parliament this afternoon on 'reopening of schools in England'

[DownRightAmazing]

By Gavin.

I'm aware there are a million threads on this generally but this is specifically regarding the statement - any leaks/clues/predictions?

To state my own position: I think schools need to close to all except keyworker and vulnerable children. I feel it's obvious this needs to happen. My own two children are thriving at school and I'm not concerned about them at all - if their (primary) school is open, I will send them - but I worry for their teachers, any vulnerable parents of their classmates and of course the NHS.

My prediction (based on nothing): secondary schools blended/part time. Primary fully open. We are tier 4 fwiw and I disagree with opening schools in January...

@Stircrazyschoolmum I’ve been looking and papers not reporting yet. This Scottish lady has just asked him this so we’ll see we her list of questions is extensive to say the least

No countess : children, after return tests then only get tested when they have been identified as a contact of a +ve case. At which point they keep coming into schol (on buses etc)for seven days, getting tested with unreliable LFTs rather than SI. And somehow miraculously get home if they test positive.

She’s giving him hell 👏🏼👏🏼

I won't repeat what my secondary school teacher DD just said to me - but lots of swear words were involved. I somehow don't think she will be testing anyone for Covid.

@dreamingbohemian

Nearly 1000 dead in a day, hospitals overflowing and primaries go back as normal, are they fucking serious

Sadly they are :(

The tests aren’t perfect, everyone I know who has contracted covid in the last month is a health worker. But you can’t just close down health and education, so we have to muddle along somehow for a few more weeks. I suppose.

I would be okay with this if it weren’t for the fact that they now won’t send contacts of positive covid cases home to isolate if they get an apparently negative result to the lateral flow test. Which has a 50% chance of being wrong.

@MissMarpletheMurderer

So good luck primary teachers, you are fucked.

We know. I'll teach 500+ kids next week. Happy new year me!

I am so happy with this update

@kingat

I am so happy with this update

Genuine question, but why? They are basically throwing teachers, students and their parents into the lions den with just hand sanitiser for protection...

@kingat. As long as your kids are at school fuck everyone else right?

So what we’ve been given is more chaos:

Higher death rate
More school disruption because of SI and infections
Lockdown misery for 2/3 of the country.
Mass unemployment.

But it’s okay because people don’t have to look after their kids

My eldest DD has cerebral palsy, I can't afford the fines and now my youngest is off to school on Monday with over 50,000 cases for two days running. Im absolutely astounded

Ridiculous

The lateral flow tests are not reliable but and that’s well known but those are a front really.

Kate Green at least asked about clinically vulnerable teachers and students. Gavin completely ignored that in his answer.

Relief here. Thank goodness for common sense

@SabrinaTheMiddleAgedBitch

@kingat

I am so happy with this update

Got your free childcare sorted then? 🙄 Meanwhile teachers and school staff have been thrown to the wolves.

Genuine question, but why? They are basically throwing teachers, students and their parents into the lions den with just hand sanitiser for protection...

Alcohol free sanitizer too.

Remember when we were told anything less than 70% alcohol was ineffective?

Well, it's alcohol free in school.

@XmasSkies2020

Relief here. Thank goodness for common sense

It won't last long! A week and your area will have similar figures.

@XmasSkies2020

Relief here. Thank goodness for common sense

Ah yes silly me. Here I was thinking naively that keeping schools closed in a country where we had 50,000 + new cases and almost 1000 deaths today was almost the dictionary definition of common sense....

The spikes in hospital admissions must be due to mixing outside school (no one should be seeing grandparents, for a start) when a contagious strain is going round. Dont blame or close schools, the benefits are dwarfed by risks... they've been closed the past 2 weeks and didnt cause this spike.

What an absolute shit show.

We are in London. DD is year 11 so back from 11th. Two rammed busses each way and a bubble the size of her year group. It's literally only a matter of when, and not if. And what the consequences are to me and DH when we inevitably get it.

I honestly feel like I might as well be licking the trolley handles in Sainsbury's at this point.

sabrina is she CEV and are you tier 4?

The gloating of some people who genuinely don’t give a shit about teachers, carers, BME, vulnerable children and adults may be short lived indeed.