Anyone who thinks there’s nothing special about schools or colleges can’t have been in one recently. Those who work in such places live normal lives outside them and can make direct comparisons with other crowded places, supermarkets, shopping centres, pubs, restaurants, leisure centres. The conditions in none of these at any time compare with crowded classrooms, corridors, dining halls and so on in schools where very many active, noisy and highly physical young adults interact for hours every day, many if not most unmasked, in inadequately ventilated rooms, where individuals regularly cross bubbles, hug and kiss (and occasionally lick) one another, share equipment, food and water bottles, don’t test adequately, and generally behave as if living in normal times. Not even mentioning school transport. I’m happy on the London Underground for an hour, but I wouldn’t spend any time at all on a school bus if you paid me.