What are your predictions for this school year?

[Sheepsheepmoresheep]

Be interesting to look back. I didn’t think they’d close the schools again this time last year, but I was wrong!

I don’t think they’ll close the schools again … but we’ll see!

I'm going for an extended Christmas Holidays, so not closing schools, just a longer break. Four weeks if we are lucky.

Why do a few of you don't remember this it was all over the newspapers and the news.
Right to work in safe environment.
As it Happened Boris said schools were perfectly safe.
Some teachers dident turn up for the 1 and only day school officially opened before he closed them.
Some schools my city definitely affected local shit rag loved reporting the drama.

Then lots parents and dfe took the piss with keyworker status which means 70% to 80% of kids could attend as keyworkers and they education staff still dident get vaccine priority.

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/government-faces-major-revolt-on-schools-reopening-in-england-over-covid-fears

@BashfulClam

Scotland have been back for almost 2 weeks and we have record cases now…

Yep. Doubling time up to 6.2 days.

If the same happens in England (it will) we'll be at the fabled 100000 cases a day in no time.

And our children will be sitting ducks.

@Regulus

I'm going for an extended Christmas Holidays, so not closing schools, just a longer break. Four weeks if we are lucky.

That will never happen.

Possibly two weeks remote learning in January- not 4 weeks off!

I think masks will come back in hotspot areas and perhaps the reinstatement of staggered breaks and zoning (although I hope not). I agree with Noble that the CO2 monitors won't be in schools for months (not that they can magically aid ventilation improvement).

@3asAbird

But that article is bollocks. It was just the media hunting up stories again. None of the teaching unions called for a strike and the only teachers who weren't in school were those who were sick. Announcing some teachers didn't turn up isn't correct.

You do understand that not everything that's in the news and newspapers is true, don't you?

[quote 3asAbird]Why do a few of you don't remember this it was all over the newspapers and the news.
Right to work in safe environment.
As it Happened Boris said schools were perfectly safe.
Some teachers dident turn up for the 1 and only day school officially opened before he closed them.
Some schools my city definitely affected local shit rag loved reporting the drama.

Then lots parents and dfe took the piss with keyworker status which means 70% to 80% of kids could attend as keyworkers and they education staff still dident get vaccine priority.

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/government-faces-major-revolt-on-schools-reopening-in-england-over-covid-fears[/quote]
I do remember it. But not in the same way as you do. Boris didn't shut schools after one day because of a walk out by teachers.

@BashfulClam

Scotland have been back for almost 2 weeks and we have record cases now…

With highest numbers in age 25-44....not school kids. Most kids went back one week ago.

Whole households isolating will still mean fewer teachers, essential workers etc because some of those non infected isolating will be teachers/key workers

What about school staff who have Sam children who catch COVID? Hardly likely they’ll leave them home alone for 10 days!

Sorry forgot you all think teachers are some super humans.

Apart from teachers there are TAs dinner ladies cooks cleaners care takers leadership and heads deputies, they all need to be there to run the school.

The gov will only do sth when the nhs is overwhelmed.
In the background, schools are going to be flapping with loads of staff and kids isolating and lots of angry parents ( with the school) for not protecting their children- but schools will say they are following PHE rules.
I mean come on, it costs nothing to keep bubbles separate, masking up, online assemblies etc.
This is obviously a mass infection program designed by the government to produce immunity by infection for the younger ones.

To be fair, some of you (and you know who you are) do tend to seep into every Covid thread like the Grim Reaper, intoning, "Doom, doom, exponential growth, sitting ducks, Long Covid, vaccine-resistant variants, Lockdown Christmas..." You cannot be too surprised that people get a little...weary.

Well not me then, because I don't do that.

@noblegiraffe

Well not me then, because I don't do that.

Nobody does that.

I think next year will be messy. Some schools will be fine. Some schools will really struggle. There will be no leadership or decisive action from the DfE, so heads will have the stress of making - and being blamed for - difficult decisions. Any decisions that are made - eg around exams - will always be made too late to be done well. Teachers will mop up the mess as much as they can for the sake of their pupils.

It will just be messy. Not dramatic enough for any major reporting or concerted public outcry, but day to day low level difficult and stressful for everyone closely involved.

No they shut school as spread was so big and infection and deaths so high.
School closures was method they used.
Not threat of strike.
But that still doesn't explain why people argue they never threatened and some schools did not turn up using section 44 as they deemed it was unsafe working environment.

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/list-bristol-primary-schools-remain-4852128

So local paper is trinity mirror
Previous link guardian.
Were all of the media lying when reporting this?

@Jourdain11

To be fair, some of you (and you know who you are) do tend to seep into every Covid thread like the Grim Reaper, intoning, "Doom, doom, exponential growth, sitting ducks, Long Covid, vaccine-resistant variants, Lockdown Christmas..." You cannot be too surprised that people get a little...weary.

Equally, there are those who come onto every thread either to minimise and ridicule anyone’s concerns, or simply to point fingers and call names at specific posters.

None of it is terribly edifying, but there are definitely guilty parties on either side of the debate.

To be fair, some of you (and you know who you are) do tend to seep into every Covid thread like the Grim Reaper, intoning, "Doom, doom, exponential growth, sitting ducks, Long Covid, vaccine-resistant variants, Lockdown Christmas..." You cannot be too surprised that people get a little...weary

Don’t forget the noisy data

This thread is the perfect MN CV storm. Covid, schools, new variant. Wind em up and watch em go.

This thread is the perfect MN CV storm. Covid, schools, new variant. Wind em up and watch em go.

What do you think schools will be like this year? Smooth, full attendance? Uninterrupted teaching, learning and exams? Or high absence, some bumpy moments? Or significant changes forced through high cases? What are your thoughts?

Perhaps nobody writes that, verbatim. But the essence is the same.

I'd never minimise someone's concerns about Covid. I don't want my children to get Covid. I don't want to get Covid. The same as I don't wish to catch any other nasty virus. And I understand that it is a new virus and there are concerns about the way it may affect people.

But some of y'all are like people who stop on the pavement for 10 minutes to feast your eyes on a car crash

What do you think schools will be like this year? Smooth, full attendance? Uninterrupted teaching, learning and exams? Or high absence, some bumpy moments? Or significant changes forced through high cases? What are your thoughts?

I couldn’t possibly say cant, we will find out.

Feel free to resurrect this thread this time next year for group reflection

Well according to the Telegraph front page tomorrow, 12+ will be vaccinated within weeks, plans to be drawn up by 4pm Friday.

twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1430633346518945796?s=21

Staff won’t be off because people won’t test

No one is worried and with all disruption of the last few years, parents want kids in school and will go out of their way to avoid any kind of disruption

Parents simply aren’t worried about kids getting covid anymore

Parents aren’t worried they’ll pass it on because of the huge rates of vaccinated adults (I know not all are fully protected after a vaccine but people won’t conaider those low numbers who lets face it will always be at risk)

Parents won’t give a damn about those who refused vaccine

No tests, no cases

No isolations needed anyway as all adults will be double vaccinated by then and kids exempt

So no excuses just like rest of the workforce

Those who’ve refused will be shunned by noses for bringing inconvenience to their team - pay will end for isolations since it’s ‘personal choice’

Most double vaccinated who do get ill get it mildly so whilst they may be unwell, it’s likley only a day or two and not 14 days

I expect this year will be near normal

12+ will be offered

Take up will be low initially I imagine

They should have done it a few months ago when kids needed the holiday passport

There’s no incentive for the next few months now

Noses= bosses

No one is worried ...

Parents simply aren’t worried about kids getting covid anymore

patently untrue

if so, why are a huge majority of parents in polls keen to have their children vaccinated

Polls of about 1500 people

Now isolation has stopped for kids uptake will be less