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Sunday Times: Schools back in 3 Weeks

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Lumene · 13/02/2021 23:00

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KatherineJaneway · 14/02/2021 08:44

They won't open schools to all years on the 8th. It will be a phased reopening.

SmidgenofaPigeon · 14/02/2021 08:45

Thank Christ if it is true. They absolutely need to be back at school. They’ve suffered enough. And I’m not talking about the kids I work with who are holed up in spacious heated homes with super fast broadband and their own devices that could probably tough it out for a bit longer, and whose schools have the resources to help them all catch up when they go back. There’s a far bigger to think about than that.

SmidgenofaPigeon · 14/02/2021 08:45

*bigger picture

Multicover · 14/02/2021 08:50

Good.
Enough is enough regarding schools and education.
Get them opened.

DotBall · 14/02/2021 08:50

Way too soon. They should wait until they’re further down the vaccine list and more of the community has been jabbed.

I know exactly what will happen in the area I teach within - it will be taken as carte blanche to do everyday life as normal and the infection rate will rise again.

I’m shielding, so not back in school until after Easter, and have had the jab. I’m hoping shielding will be extended until most others have been jabbed.

THEN I will feel safe in work.

WhenSheWasBad · 14/02/2021 08:56

Johnson is probably floating several plans for reopening schools, to see which sits best with the public.

I think I would prefer holding off till after Easter. Can you imagine if numbers shoot up again and we end up in a 4th lockdown in early summer?

Remmy123 · 14/02/2021 08:57

@DotBall too soon?! You have had the jab so you have some protection.

Ffs the kids have had a year of this.

Lemons1571 · 14/02/2021 08:58

I think they need to do whatever they can to make school staff safer. A 333% infection rate when compared to the average community spread between Sept-Dec is eye watering. Plus, remember the chaos in the last week of December with staff issuing section 44’s, councils overriding the government and Williamson threatening to sue?

I agree schools are best open, but doing the same thing as we did in September and expecting a different result is madness. Remember that the vast majority of staff in schools and all kids will be unvaccinated. Surely it’s a variants dream?

RosieLemonade · 14/02/2021 08:59

EYFS KS1 first. Then KS2 after Easter.

Lemons1571 · 14/02/2021 09:01

@WhenSheWasBad

Johnson is probably floating several plans for reopening schools, to see which sits best with the public.

I think I would prefer holding off till after Easter. Can you imagine if numbers shoot up again and we end up in a 4th lockdown in early summer?

I also agree with delaying most of the return until after Easter. What % of school staff will have been vaccinated? Close to 0 probably. % kids vaccinated = 0. I totally get kids need to be back but given the lack of mitigations and money allocated to schools, how on earth can they stop the rate rocketing?
BaronessVonCake · 14/02/2021 09:02

Brilliant news. DC have missed school and their friends so much.

I just hope the government eases the lockdown slowly and carefully to keep hospital admissions and death rates down- so not opening schools, pubs, hairdressers, non essential workplaces etc all too quickly.

Multicover · 14/02/2021 09:02

‘ A 333% infection rate when compared to the average community spread between Sept-Dec is eye watering.’

It’s also complete and utter bullshit. Random numbers made up by the unions to suit their own agenda do not equate to scientific fact. So sick of seeing this misinformation peddled as fact. Sick of MN teachers whinging about me, me,me.
Get schools open and get our children back.

SmidgenofaPigeon · 14/02/2021 09:05

Children are not included in the vaccine rollout and they’ve only just begun developing one which can be even considered for use in children, so it’s not practical to wait until children are vaccinated. I agree school staff ought to be more of a priority.

Remmy123 · 14/02/2021 09:07

@Multicover totally agree!!!

WaterBottle123 · 14/02/2021 09:08

@KatherineJaneway

They won't open schools to all years on the 8th. It will be a phased reopening.
@KatherineJaneway

Source link pls?

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 14/02/2021 09:09

Some Dr bod from Cambridge on this morning. If they open them with no mitigation it could drive another 100,000 deaths.

What’s the point in them going back? It’s too soon, they’ll just end up having to close again.

WaterBottle123 · 14/02/2021 09:10

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Some Dr bod from Cambridge on this morning. If they open them with no mitigation it could drive another 100,000 deaths.

What’s the point in them going back? It’s too soon, they’ll just end up having to close again.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

A doctor of what please? And what peer reviewed research were they quoting?

littlemisslozza · 14/02/2021 09:10

@RosieLemonade

EYFS KS1 first. Then KS2 after Easter.
What about all the children over the age of 7?! Which is most of them! Secondary pupils need to be back too, some of them only have a short time left at school and their qualifications have been disrupted.
ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 14/02/2021 09:12

I don’t know what she was a doctor of.I can’t find the bloody link! But she was at Cambridge.

SchwingLow · 14/02/2021 09:15

"Under the 'roadmap' due to be unveiled on February 22 all primary and secondary schools could return from March 8."
This has always been the situation! Confused

Multicover · 14/02/2021 09:17

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Some Dr bod from Cambridge on this morning. If they open them with no mitigation it could drive another 100,000 deaths.

What’s the point in them going back? It’s too soon, they’ll just end up having to close again.

Again. Complete and utter horse shit.

14 million people have been vaccinated including the majority of those in the most at risk/vulnerable groups.

COVID is not going away. We have to learn to live with it. Mortality/morbidity risks for children are miniscule.
Mortality/Morbidity risks for healthy adults without risk factors are small.
Clinically vulnerable people are being vaccinated.
The NHS has coped pretty well so far ( and I say that as a nurse who is utterly exhausted)

Long Covid will require service development and resources.
But we cannot keep our kids locked up and watch our economy disintegrate for much longer.

megletthesecond · 14/02/2021 09:17

I'd rather wait until after Easter and for school staff, and more parents, to be vaccinated.
Johnson is so bloody impatient.

Multicover · 14/02/2021 09:18

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

I don’t know what she was a doctor of.I can’t find the bloody link! But she was at Cambridge.
Grin
Soontobe60 · 14/02/2021 09:18

@Multicover

‘ A 333% infection rate when compared to the average community spread between Sept-Dec is eye watering.’

It’s also complete and utter bullshit. Random numbers made up by the unions to suit their own agenda do not equate to scientific fact. So sick of seeing this misinformation peddled as fact. Sick of MN teachers whinging about me, me,me.
Get schools open and get our children back.

www.sec-ed.co.uk/news/covid-19-infection-rates-1-9-times-higher-among-teachers-coronavirus/

Infection rates ARE higher amongst school staff because there’s no social distancing in schools. But hey, don't you worry about them its a risk they have to put up with...

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 14/02/2021 09:19

Why would a doctor from Cambridge be talking shit?🤨

Don’t you have to have a brain the size of Britain to be at Cambridge?