In two weeks pupils can safely return to school..

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..can they fuck.

There maybe plenty of reasons why they have too but to lie that it's safe is deplorable.

Theres no other option but to return pupils to the classroom after testing. Also presumably they'll be in a classroom before the test too

They can invite individual students over the next week, to come in for a test. Takes only a few minutes each.

Our students are coming in on separate year group days to test. Then going straight home. So long as their test was negative they start back at school the next day.

@Violetlavenders

Theres no other option but to return pupils to the classroom after testing. Also presumably they'll be in a classroom before the test too

They can invite individual students over the next week, to come in for a test. Takes only a few minutes each.

I'm talking about the subsequent testing that will happen once they return to school.
My DS school is testing them all a day before they return to school (a year each day) so my ds will test on the 8th and return on the 9th. But going forward future testing, I'm told this could be twice a week, they will be in classrooms before and after.

Aren't subsequent tests done at home on a voluntary bas?

@Violetlavenders

Aren't subsequent tests done at home on a voluntary bas?

Are they? I thought they were being done in school i could be wrong though.

the problem with the adage of follow the science and the scientists is that Newton's third law is quite appropriate here

"for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction"

Demonstrates a lamentable misunderstanding of the function of the laws of Physics and an entirely inappropriate application to a very different context.

The most simple science to follow and remember in case of Covid fatigue or false sense of non existent herd immunity nonsense is - it takes just one to be an inadvertent super spreader! All the others may follow the hands face space trace rules but it just takes one Covidiot to start a pandemic. That one has so far meant 0.1 million plus fatalities and countless lives impacted and livelihoods lost.

Yes, school will supervise first one then they are sent home with future tests.

Yes exactly it takes one.... Super spreader

The first three tests are done in school. So the children can be taught how to do the tests. After that the children get two tests a week to do at home. (This is what the government guidance says)

The school will keep an area aside to test at school if a situation comes up that needs it

Don’t tell me I’m behind.
Don’t tell me I’ll be held back for ever.
Don’t tell me I need longer at school.
Don’t tell me I’m lost.

Tell me I can do it.
Tell me you’ll help me.
Tell me you believe in me.
Tell me we’ll do it together.

Yours sincerely,

The children.

@nostaples

I 1000% believe that taxi drivers and hairdressers and most of all care workers and shop workers are more at risk than me as a teacher.

If we really are going to prioritise the vaccine based on occupational risk (which we aren't quite rightly) then they come first.

Taxi drivers: behind a perspex screen - customer wearing mask. Probably contact less than an hour.

Teacher/TA/ nursery worker: inches away from child, no mask, no screen, contact all day with numerous children. Spat at. Touched. Stroked. Licked. Hit. Sneezed on. Coughed on. Nose wiped on. Sighed on. Yawned on. First aid administered. Hugs. Etc etc.

Hairdressers: masks and face shields worn, by staff, masks worn by customer. Contact less than an hour. Teacher/TA /nursery worker- see above

Shop workers: Masks worn by staff and customers. Social distancing encouraged. Perspex screens. Contact - fleeting. Teacher/TA/nursery worker - see above.

Statistics are frankly bollocks.

Shadeelane

You genuinely think that death statistics have been falsified in order to prevent teachers, who you believe are at the highest risk of death of any profession as they cannot social distance, from getting a vaccine? You believe that it's not true that more bus drivers, taxi drivers or hairdressers, proportionate to how many people do each job, have died? That this is a lie?

I don't know what to say to that, honestly.

Well of course ok one apart from teachers have died! They are the worst off in every case don’t you know

Not necessarily falsified but you can fudge stats to say whatever you want. I genuinely don't know. Obviously other workers are at risk but it's impossible to say where people picked up the virus and whether it was your job that caused it or just that the lifestyle that goes with a particular job is more likely to bring you in contact.

Common sense tells you that the conditions in many schools which are pretty much banned nearly every where else in society are at greater risk than others. Some schools will be totally different. Quiet smaller schools in rural areas will obviously bring down the national average.

As has been said countless times, teachers don't think they're special or the only ones at risk, aren't refusing to work, don't want schools closed. They're just tired of being told their working conditions are perfectly safe by people who have never set foot inside their particular school.

It’s hard to ‘fudge’ stats around death numbers. They’re pretty black and white.

They're just tired of being told their working conditions are perfectly safe

No one is saying they’re perfectly safe. They’re saying no ones working conditions are perfectly safe. We’re in a pandemic (you know, all that stuff).

As has been said countless times, teachers don't think they're special or the only ones at risk, aren't refusing to work, don't want schools closed. They're just tired of being told their working conditions are perfectly safe

Nobody has ever claimed that schools are perfectly safe. No workplace could possibly be perfectly safe?!

Nobody has ever claimed that schools are perfectly safe

Except Boris

@chocolateisavegetable

Nobody has ever claimed that schools are perfectly safe

Except Boris

@Ostryga

Well of course ok one apart from teachers have died! They are the worst off in every case don’t you know

Yeah, but to be fair Boris doesn't count. I mean he's only the PM