Not entirely sure why I'm bothering but here goes.
Teachers are working their arses off just now (most of them). It takes easily twice as long to delivery good remote learning than it does in a classroom.
The majority of kids are probably having a more stable education now than they did between summer and Christmas. Just because your school had no cases, doesn't make it true for all. Plenty of schools had a lot of cases and in a secondary 'bubbles' don't exist so one positive case in a class could mean 160+ kids off for 2 weeks to isolate (6 or more different subjects + lunch + PE + form class + bus to school and on and on). In some schools the whole school had to close due to staff and pupils either testing positive or having to isolate. Some kids had to do the 2 weeks isolation more than once (so a month or more off school).
We had huge amounts of kids that suddenly developed asthma and their parents sent a letter saying they were exempt from masks in corridors (after 3, 4, 5 years in the school without a single medical issue or even a hint that they might have asthma on the forms that are completed every year by parents). Huge amounts more that simply didn't bother and our only option to deal with it was 'ask them to wear one and give out a mask to them' - which was usually found on the floor further up the corridor if they even bothered to stop and take it.
You can't just decide to cancel a whole professions contract to suit your childcare needs, and the suggestion that you think we should just not get any break at all is pretty rich considering you're moaning that you can't even get your own child to do one bit of phonics. That's right Your. Own. Child.
How do other European Countries manage to keep schools open? Not all have, and those that do are not packing 30 kids into a room around the size of the average sitting room with zero social distancing or masks. The kids all wear masks in most other countries from as young as 4 or 5 years old, there is not of this 'muzzling' bullshit or claims that we are somehow harming them by getting them to wear a damn mask.
The British public seem to be so damn entitled its no wonder our Covid rates are out of control. This board was FULL of threads before Christmas about people justifying why they were going to break the rules or why they felt the rules shouldn't apply to them. There are stories in the paper every damn day about shit like a houseful of people at a baby gender reveal party (WTF) or a car load of people driving 300 miles for a Macdonalds. Thread upon thread of people justifying why they think their child should be in school right now and fuck everyone else.
Come tell that to the (mid 30's) staff member at my school who spent 3 weeks in intensive care and hasn't been able to return to work since then. Tell that to the kids who have lost a parent to Covid. Tell that to my colleague who was infected with Covid at school and spread it to her partner who died (late 40's btw).
Look at the schools who are having to close now to all including 'keyworkers' children and vulnerable children due to ever spreading infections and staff getting ill. And that is when the schools are meant to be closed to all but those who absolutely have to be in...
Imagine if they were still full?
Hospitals are at or way beyond capacity - in a normal year Scotland has 170 or so ICU beds. At the moment there are over 260 being used with over 160 of that being Covid patients. And Scotland has way lower infection rates than England.
When the NHS is in the position that it is having to cancel or postpone other treatments for serious conditions (even cancer in some places) does that not tell you that the NHS is at breaking point?
Schools aren't closed to protect teachers. They aren't closed to stop children getting Covid. They are closed because they are a big factor in transmitting the virus and the NHS cannot cope at the moment.