Children will be in unventilated rooms with 140+ people

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If they go back as normal on March 8th. I'm not sure if people realise how many other children senior school kids meet on a weekly basis. Very large school, GCSE options and streamed ability groups means that a child is sat in classrooms with 140 different people over a week (I've just been through the teams lists for classes and counted 142 different names in the class groupings) and these children have siblings and parents. And the poor teacher has to sit in these rooms as well.
Sending primary with 30 in a class is very different to sending back secondary.

OP - Our local case rates are around 80/100,000. I am therefore not at all worried by 140 children.

@Bluntness100

Education is critical and approx two thirds of kids have been in throughout. So it’s not a big leap to send the other third.

No, 15.9% have been in.

25% in primary and 5% in secondary nationally. It’s going to be a massive increase.

Mine isn't going back. He's absolutely thrived at home and I think mainstream education is no longer fit for purpose anyway. I used to work in university admissions for a RG University and half the kids coming through were thick as mince no matter how many A levels they had. Basic general knowledge and critical thinking doesn't even seem to exist any more.

I feel sorry for teachers who are overwhelmingly just trying their best but state education needs serious reform.

And I don't want my son getting long covid either.

No, 15.9% have been in.

25% in primary and 5% in secondary nationally. It’s going to be a massive increase.

It’s hard to reconcile this with the reports from various posters claiming to be teachers on these boards, about the high number of keyworker children in school since January. Could it be some exaggeration went on? Some scaremongering? Some unnecessary panicking with a side order of hyperbole?

No, there were big regional differences as it goes.

@user85963842

Today is going to be fun on mumsnet. A low boring drone of mass hysteria that children are being given back their right to education.

@ user85963842

How correct your prediction turned out to be!

Endless doom-laden threads. Maybe they're started by NEU bots, I don't know! Meanwhile in the world of real data and advice from SAGE, Chris Whitty et al, even Keir Starmer supports the return to school.

Clearly all kids need to be back in school. However where is the evidence supporting the stark difference in approach by the other nations? Wales for instance have not committed to all secondary pupils back and neither has Scotland. In Scotland they are for socially distance of 2m in classrooms and buses to school. The infection rate is higher in England compared to the other nations even when population size is taken into account.