God you lot love talking about me don't you?
a particular set of views that are almost impossible to decipher.
Maybe that's a problem with your reading comprehension? It is weird that it's only people who really don't like me who have an issue trying to understand what I'm saying though. I should add it to the list.
14) I don't understand what you're trying to say even though you have laid it out clearly and comprehensively enough for everyone else to understand.
My feeling always was that she wanted parents to pull their children out of schools so they closed due to parent pressure rather than teacher / union pressure. The mitigations that were talked about were never going to happen, so the only thing left was to close schools.
Your feeling?
Wow. You won't be able to find a single thing to back that up then of course.
So asking for these measures to be introduced to keep schools open was basically asking to close schools.
Looking back at the email to my MP from the start of this thread, here was what I suggested:
"Please could you raise with your colleague Gavin Williamson, and the DfE as a matter of urgency the issue of inadequate mitigation measures in secondary schools which is leading to uncontrolled transmission of covid, and nearly a million students out of school?
The use of masks in classrooms is currently 'to be avoided' in the school guidance, due to potential effects on teaching and learning. This should now be balanced against the huge disruption to teaching and learning due to pupils and teachers being unable to attend school.
Mass testing in schools should be a priority. We know that children are more likely to be asymptomatic or have symptoms which do not currently trigger a test. As a result they are in school spreading covid, which will then affect teachers and be taken back to the community. Instead of isolating only close contacts the entire bubble should be tested when there is a positive case to identify all infected pupils.
Funding should be given to schools to improve ventilation in classrooms, as has been done in other countries.
The position of clinically extremely vulnerable teachers and children, and those who have vulnerable members of their household should be reconsidered. Forcing them to work or study in an environment which is obviously not safe after lockdown is completely unacceptable, and I note that you and your colleagues are not expected to put yourselves and your families at risk in this way."
Yeah, outrageously out there isn't it, and deserving of derision and abuse? Except masks were implemented, they are now asking bubbles to get PCR tests in delta areas, and CEV pupils and staff were told to stay off school.
More funding for ventilation doesn't mean knocking down walls and has been done in other countries. In some cases it could be as simple as fixing windows that don't open. In a couple of my classrooms it would be fixing blinds that don't open. As previously discussed, other countries are buying air filtration units.
Lack of mitigation measures closed schools. People were wrong to deny they were needed and they were wrong to suggest they were impossible.