I am starting to suspect it will never get up and running-there are just too many problems.
If teachers aren’t doing it, as they are teaching, who will be?
If it’s TA/admin/site staff, who will be doing their job?
If it’s volunteers, without dbs checks (not apparently needed) they will all need to be supervised. By who?
When Alfie tests positive, his close contacts are notified. What happens then? They are all picked out of class and told, then either their parents are phoned (if consent for the crap tests isn’t given) or put back in class and told to carry on. I would imagine levels of concentration will not be high and there will be much illicit texting of parents and pupils feeling unwell. Having been identified as a close contact myself, you do end up symptom spotting!
Then, they all spend the day as normal in 5 different lesson with 30 different children at a time and then get the bus home. Then get the bus in the next day and wait in the hall for half an hour with all the other contacts and teachers and do their own tests. After half an hour of waiting, 5/60 come back positive. They are pulled out and kept somewhere separate (not sure where yet, there are no spare rooms) and told they are positive. 2 go white and one faints and two more cry. No one is free to cam them down as they are on the phone to their parents. Their parents are phoned but have gone to work and can’t collect them for 4 hours.
The rest of the ‘negatives’ go back to class and rinse and repeat the process whilst the school now have to go back and find the close contacts of the 5 new positive children. 2 teachers also test positive and have to go home. There is nobody to supervise their lessons now. Obviously once home, they are still required to teach remotely despite being covid positive, but all classes still need to be supervised.
The next day, 14 people and 4 teachers test positive.
The next day, another 15.
What a lot of work and it doesn’t seem to be containing the spread...
Just my thoughts.