It's a shame so many people can't see that the government manipulated this situation through inaction so they didn't have to be the bad guys, so they could literally pitch parents against teachers instead of making the hard decision.
It's so sad to see two disempowered groups fighting for scraps at the table of equity instead of challenging the fundamental premise that the only equity to be shared is that which they are permitted by the government.
The government is printing money. They could have solved this ages ago by letting people bubble properly instead of keeping schools open and telling them to sort themselves out with no time or money to do that. Schools are not childcare. Right now they are disease vectors. Just because the kids can't catch the illness doesn't mean they're not spreading it.
Headteachers aren't epidemiologists, they shouldn't be solving the issue of how to make schools Covid secure, there should have been specific guidance based on scientific study of how this disease spreads.
We know it survives on surfaces for ages FGS, think of children as self-mobile surfaces with bits constantly falling off them (snot, clothes, stray hairs, dead skin, toys) then put two and two together, people!
Parents AND teachers deserve better.