Whenever the schools return, aren't the kids just facing months of disruption again?

[dameofdilemma]

There's lots of speculation about when schools will reopen but I've yet to see anything acknowledging that even when schools open pupils and teachers still face months of disruption.

No firm timing on when teachers will be offered the vaccination which means:

Bubbles will continue to burst, classes and year groups will still be sent home.

Teachers will still have to self isolate (whether they have symptoms or not, whether they test positive or not).
Teachers will still struggle to stretch resources to cover teachers having to self isolate.

Children will still miss yet more school.

Won't this continue far beyond April? So basically most of the remainder of the school year??

In the local secondary school, which had a couple of instances of children testing positive, only small groups of children were sent home, not whole classes or year groups
This decisions in some secondaries was irresponsible and caused extra school and community spread, @dameofdilemma
And in secondaries, teachers don’t isolate if someone they teach tests positive, which is also pretty stupid.

[quote MrsWhites]@dameofdilemma the same happened in my children’s schools, primary whole class had to isolate, in secondary only group of pupils. According to our secondary, it is because teachers can social distance from pupils by standing 2m away at the front of the class, they also kept detailed seating plans in classrooms and at lunchtime which made it far easier to identify close contacts. This wouldn’t be possible with younger children who can’t social distance to this degree so it’s safer to send them all home to isolate.[/quote]
It’s clearly ridiculous reasoning though, isn’t it? 32 people in a poorly ventilated room with no space to socially distance and an air borne virus. It’s irrelevant if they have seating plans, the whole class is exposed - and then if they are in exam years they all is up and sit with a different 32 every hour. Whole year groups should always have isolated in secondary. They did in my school and all schools in Wales that I know of.