Another u turn - London schools

[ByersRd]

All to delay opening.

Hmmm. I'm not in london but cant see our schools are any safer.

Link?

As I've just said in another thread, if it's not safe for the children of London then it isn't safe for my children either. All tier 4 schools should now delay.

www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/01/all-primary-schools-in-london-to-remain-closed-after-u-turn

www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/01/all-primary-schools-in-london-to-remain-closed-after-u-turn?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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I think they will have to close all Tier 4 schools now- as others have have said, if it's not safe in London, people won't see it as safe elsewhere.

This is a massive climb down for Williamson.

@Beebityboo

As I've just said in another thread, if it's not safe for the children of London then it isn't safe for my children either. All tier 4 schools should now delay.

Absolutely, what on earth are we meant to think in other Tier 4 areas?

Has anyone got the link for rolling rates in the different boroughs?

That makes more sense.

Can they do all of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire next? All hospital trusts on their knees but most primaries opening come what may.

Are nurseries staying open?

Good finally some organisation the boroughs got together and threatened them with legal action.

I'm in london but my childs school is not closing.

Can anyone explain me why GW is still in charge?

Surely Bucks must follow....? State of emergency and rates climbing daily.

As I've just said in another thread, if it's not safe for the children of London then it isn't safe for my children either.

No one is saying it’s about children’s safety though - it’s about reducing transmission routes.

I just wish they’d shut the primaries properly and not continue with the utter farce of remote learning.

Our school has already confirmed that they plan to go back to a couple of worksheets and a few white rose maths videos flung at us, with occasional comments on work handed in. I could weep for my kids when I see what other schools are planning.

All London primary schools to close, Sadiq Khan just confirmed

Oh wow did the boroughs threaten with legal action? Can I read about this somewhere?

I was horrified when Greenwihc were ordered to return.

I am repeatedly shocked that the govt seem so anti truth (schools are a safe place) and that the minister supposedly representing education is completely messing with schools.

It didn't make any sense to keep schools in some boroughs and not others given the amount of cross-borough travel that goes on for schools in London.

Remain closed should I say

That u-turn didn't take very long, I wonder how long the next one will be for all tier 4 primary schools. Do we think before Monday, or by the end of the first week back?

Surely all of tier 4 will follow?

Do you think it will be all tier 4?

First of many. Now one set of LEA’s have stood up to Gav. The rest will follow. It is quite worrying as a parent’s POV that the Ed sec now has no control over his own dept.

Bloody daft to have shut some boroughs while those next door were open, not sure how they ever thought it was a good idea in the first place.
The way they reacted to Greenwich before Xmas was criminal in my mind .

Why all tier 4 schools - The infection rate in many of the "old" tier 4s and ex T3 boroughs in the NW have lower infection rates than places that are in the new T3 areas. We are in T4 with the 11th lowest rate per 100,000.

This is the right move but it should never of got to the point whereby these boroughs were not included, it should always been the whole of London. And it shouldn't be the case where in 3 days time schools were due to open and now they are being told to remain closed. Of all the Government departments, the education one is definitely topping the list for the most u-turns and wrong decisions.