I mean, I know everyone is busy with the global pandemic and everything, but it’s not like we don’t have a whole department of education who could have been tasked with issuing clear guidance about what is going on.
Why announce that exams are cancelled and not have the info about what will replace them for another two days? Couldn’t the announcements at least have been made at the same time?
The ‘schools aren’t closing’ proclamations that led to many schools being lax in their preparations for when they inevitably closed.
The keyworker thing. Dear god. Don’t land that on schools on the last day they are open.
Lack of coordination of the keyworker thing. Some schools are doing it alone, some are coordinating in MATs. If only we had LAs to manage on a local level.
No guidance about how to manage the schools that are open. Some opening to all staff, some doing a rota, some pointing out that the rota should have two weeks off between shifts to infection spot.
No guidance about the expectations of teachers setting work for kids. Some teachers are being expected to be online giving live lessons. Some are having to respond to email queries during ‘lesson time’. Some are having to mark work. Some are just uploading a list of tasks.
Why is the DfE so crap and basically passing its job of sorting this all out to individual schools?
I mean, I know the answer but still...
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noblegiraffe · 22/03/2020 11:45
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