I agree that the responsibility for what happened in schools lis with government and what happens in the next few years will be on government too, not individual teachers.
The trouble is, the government knows really that isn’t planning to resource what is needed for children. It would need a vast amount more money and resources in terms of qualified staff than they have now or plan to have in the next 5 or 10 years.
But they don’t want to accept that or the blame. So they divert attention and encourage people to blame others so they don’t look at them. Suggest a scheme (they have no intention of finding and hiring the staff for) and then they can say they suggested it, but teachers or unions ruined it ...or they won’t even have to say it, because the public on MN or in other forms of media will say it for them, and the government can just sit quietly and let it happen. He teachers and unions can be remembered as being responsible. They can list in just 1 day 5 possible schemes, from running into the holidays, to longer days in school, to kids re-doing a school year, none of which could run without hiring significantly more staff. But they don’t have the intention to hire more staff nor to really run schemes on any scale ....but people can remember that they mentioned them and decide it wasn’t government who stopped it happening, but those lazy teachers who have already been sitting at home, relying on hardworking g parents to do their job for them, who weren’t willing to make the schemes happen. Government want o keep saying they have plans for everything Covid related..because it’s what people want to hear. When they are exhausted by having their kids at home 24/7 and find working and homeschooling so hard, anything government mentions to take children away for a bit, or to address the concerns they have when they feel their kids aren’t progressing as they might, is of course jumped on and welcomed. But there’s nothing really behind it all to make it happen. The only people parents can really imagine delivering all this stuff are their children’s teachers, because who else is there to imagine. Government knows the current teachers who do a full job won’t be the people delivering these schemes and cannot be. That’s partly why they know their vague and grandiose sounding g plans won’t ever be delivered on a major scale and because any funding and without sufficient staff who aren’t already flat-out and available it’s just not deliverable in a meaningful way. They know this, but rely on the public not spitting that and then deciding it was the teachers or unions who stymied it, not that it was down to government.
Any scheme of governments could be possible if they hire the staff to do the next jobs they are dreaming up. But teachers already have a job and have done their job. If they want actual qualified teachers to deliver stuff, they will have to find a vast supply of them who haven’t already gone above and beyond and have done their jobs. The onus isn’t on existing teachers to deliver extra schemes the government may have. It is on government to plan proper schemes and find the staff. But it won’t really happen.