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“Schools are Safe” says Borris...

216 replies

Aponcetasticchristmastoall · 03/01/2021 09:57

He’s popped his head up with the above...

No explanations, no counter arguments on SAGE’s finding or NEU’s report...

Just send your children to school I’m quite sure they are safe...

He is a bloody joke!!!

OP posts:
kulaexchange · 03/01/2021 10:24

Lizz Truss just gave a guarantee on Times Radio that secondaries will be back on the 11th and if not then the 18th. There was a mighty long pause before she said it though!!!

loveisagirlnameddaisy · 03/01/2021 10:24

@Randomschoolworker19

The crazy thing is that there we around 30 people dying a day when schools originally closed for the first lock down. Now we're at between 600-900 a day with over 50,000 new cases a day.
True, but at the time it wasn't clear how children might be affected by the virus.
Panickingpavlova · 03/01/2021 10:24

Sing sing, good points, and we went to some London musuems in October, we had to sd queue to get in, pre booked ticket, very few people in the musuems, lots of room, masks on everywhere even loos and lots and lots of staff, with ppe, managing us, keeping us to the one-way or loo queues. They were extremely well organised.

middleager · 03/01/2021 10:25

@wizzbangfizz

Good glad he isn't caving in to the unions. It should be on a case by case basis - our primary in a Tier 3 had limited cases, loads of rules we have all happily stuck by (including teachers in PPE the oldest classes in well ventilated rooms wearing coats and layers to avoid freezing) why should it shut. If people are that concerned they should keep their kids off and not not mix with anyone. We haven't mixed with anyone outside our immediate family indoors.
This is really insulting. We mixed with nobody and Wfh. We shopped online and saw nobody, to give my children a fighting chance at school.

My child caught Covid at school because schools are not safe. He was crowbarred into a tiny, unventilated room in a now tier 4 area, with lots of cases.

Why state it's because people are not following the rules? You have been lucky. You don't "do" Covid avoidance better than anyone else. How offensive!

Panickingpavlova · 03/01/2021 10:25

And now it's getting clearer love that dc are super spreaders.

Panickingpavlova · 03/01/2021 10:26

Middle very true.

Notthemessiah · 03/01/2021 10:26

It's also laughable that he's saying that the reason kids need an education is to prevent the gap between rich and poor getting even bigger - as if he couldn't do many other things to help inequality or that making the rich richer is what the Conservative party is all about.

AlexaShutUp · 03/01/2021 10:27

He’s said on TV that schools have “social distancing and whatnot” when even Gav and Gibb know enough not to trot out that lie.

Well, we all know that social distancing in schools is a myth, but I'm putting my faith in the whatnot...I'm sure it will make all the difference.

singsingbluesilver · 03/01/2021 10:28

@whizzbangfizz Whilst you have not mixed with anyone else how do you know that the kid to the left and the right of your child has not? What is they have had multiple families over Christmas, or have an older sibling who went out to a New Year';s Eve party. You are only as safe as the people next to you when the 2m rule is impossible to enforce in a small, poorly ventilated classroom where no one is wearing a face mask.

HappyNewYear2021 · 03/01/2021 10:28

@Remmy123

Oh ffs how many more of these threads do we need

Just keep your kids off abd be done with it

To be honest rather than moan ineffectively wouldn't it be better if all parents that are concerned and are able just keep their children home. Since secondary schools are closed anyway and primary schools in dome areas then in other areas if concerned stay home. This will send a BIGGER message than moaning on here.
Panickingpavlova · 03/01/2021 10:30

Liz truss can't guarantee anything now it's come down to proving the work place is safe..in legal terms.

Tal45 · 03/01/2021 10:38

It bugs me that he keeps saying schools are safe for children which is all very nice but what about when they catch it and take it home to their parents. Not so bad if those parents are in their 20's but what if they're in their 40's or 50's, or they are carers for a grandparent or a grandparent lives with them.

wizzbangfizz · 03/01/2021 10:40

You are missing my point, I don't know that - none of us do and with respect to the PP you do not know 100 per cent you DC def caught it from school - again none of us do.

What I'm saying is that I think the risk is minimal and kids need to be in school with the current safety measures already in place. Continuous lockdowns don't work, that is my opinion and I appreciate the lockdown zealots on here don't agree, but we aren't China and it doesn't work here. People here break the rules, we don't have the strict rules in place which would make it work and unending school closures will just result in more children being harmed due to other societal reasons (mental health, abuse, poverty).

And I say that with the utmost admiration for our head and all school staff which is why I'm following to the letter their rules to help keep my children in.

AlexaShutUp · 03/01/2021 10:43

with respect to the PP you do not know 100 per cent you DC def caught it from school - again none of us do.

If we caught covid, dd's school is the only potential source tbh. We don't go anywhere else, do anything else, see anyone else! I'm sure that many other families are the same at the moment.

ancientgran · 03/01/2021 10:43

I don't think he understands what an interview is i.e. the interviewer asks questions and you answer them. It isn't supposed to be an opportunity for you to waffle on and ignore the guy asking the questions.

Demitri · 03/01/2021 10:44

DD’s school bubble was sent home a few days before the Xmas break because a child is her class tested positive but was completely asymptomatic. He was only tested because his dm tested positive at work and they then tested the whole family. It’s scary

Unsure33 · 03/01/2021 10:45

Schools are safe for pupils or have been up to now . It is the teachers that are at risk .

But with the new variant I fear this will change because it will spread quicker and we don’t know how it will affect the immune system of children .

But Boris did say in an earlier interview it’s not the children that are at risk from the illness but the fact they catch it and take it back to households . But he wanted to balance that out with education and mental health as well . Hence why he wanted schools to remain open.

I am sure you will pick and chose what you want to hear . But also posters on here are terrified of losing their jobs if they have to look after their children at home or how it will affect the children being stuck at home .

This is a massive dilemma and the figures of infection and death over the next week or so may lead to schools closing , who knows .

ancientgran · 03/01/2021 10:45

Well, we all know that social distancing in schools is a myth, but I'm putting my faith in the whatnot...I'm sure it will make all the difference. Do you think we could all have a whatnot, if they make schools safe then we could have them everywhere and life could go back to normal?

SabrinaTheMiddleAgedBitch · 03/01/2021 10:47

I sincerely hope this isn't the latest phrase to bite him in the arse. I won't be sending my child in tomorrow

Unsure33 · 03/01/2021 10:47

@Tal45

And that exactly is the dilema.

Personally I think parents should have the choice and not be fined because every family dynamic and risk is different.

Mummyoflittledragon · 03/01/2021 10:47

Just another meaningless slogan to brainwash the masses...

Schools are safe
Take back control
Get Brexit done
Eat out to help out
TWAW.....

Arbeit Macht Frei

Mummyoflittledragon · 03/01/2021 10:48

To add.... Schools are safe today. He’s correct. Today because it’s Sunday and they’ve been shut for a fortnight.

Legoteacups · 03/01/2021 10:49

1/4 of our staff had it in the run up to Christmas. We were barely able to stay open but because whole classes were isolating managed it. It was like dominoes - one after the next. Some still aren’t well and won’t be returning next week, a month after a positive test.
I’m not bothered if I catch covid, but some people understandably are. Of course schools aren’t ‘covid safe’ many work places aren’t tbh, but schools are unique because of length of exposure and the younger children cough and sneeze all over you.

SabrinaTheMiddleAgedBitch · 03/01/2021 10:49

[quote Unsure33]@Tal45

And that exactly is the dilema.

Personally I think parents should have the choice and not be fined because every family dynamic and risk is different.[/quote]
Exactly. I'm incredibly lucky in one sense that keeping my children at home doesn't affect us financially/work wise at all. I completely empathise with people who are worried about the safety of their jobs.

On the other hand my eldest DD has cerebral palsy and I have a duty to keep her safe. Sending her younger sister to school when we have cases slowly creeping up to 60,000 is not safe

EleanorRigbyWasReal · 03/01/2021 10:50

Yeah. BJ told us the schools were “safe” in September. Look where we are.

He’s a useless lying twat.

Andrew Marr ought to have asked him why Eton wasn’t opening.