Putting more children at risk and disrupting their education even more. For context, a child in year 9 hasn’t had a normal year at high school. Access to IT is not universal. Even if it was, many children do not learn sat at home. Many don’t have a quiet space to work.
I don’t think the people proposing that children’s education is disrupted have fully considered the implications for disadvantaged children. What benefit would this have for children? Not for grandparents. Not for teachers. Directly for the children themselves.
In the run up to the Christmas holidays, we repeatedly saw children sent in with symptoms. Several had actually tested positive on lateral flows but parents refused to get PCRs due to what that might mean. The irony being that, by sending their kids in like that, they were raising the risk of closures.
Even with that ridiculous situation, I would far rather be in school than have more damn remote learning.
For some children it was fine, but for a large number it was either a joke (no learning) or a disaster in regards to their mental health. I hated it. Teachers put in so much effort, did as much as possible for the children and that was the result.
Just praying as many parents as possible get the booster, take their kids to be vaccinated and more start being sensible about symptoms. If they do that, we can hopefully stay open.
Unless people are literally dropping in the streets there should be no more school closures. This pandemic has already adversely affected childrens education and life chances and nobody will ever convince me that they ever “catch up”. Not to mention their mental health and how many children were abused during lockdown without teachers or their extended family on hand to even notice what was going on.
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Putting more children at risk and disrupting their education even more. For context, a child in year 9 hasn’t had a normal year at high school. Access to IT is not universal. Even if it was, many children do not learn sat at home. Many don’t have a quiet space to work.
I don’t think the people proposing that children’s education is disrupted have fully considered the implications for disadvantaged children. What benefit would this have for children? Not for grandparents. Not for teachers. Directly for the children themselves.
In the run up to the Christmas holidays, we repeatedly saw children sent in with symptoms. Several had actually tested positive on lateral flows but parents refused to get PCRs due to what that might mean. The irony being that, by sending their kids in like that, they were raising the risk of closures.
Even with that ridiculous situation, I would far rather be in school than have more damn remote learning.
For some children it was fine, but for a large number it was either a joke (no learning) or a disaster in regards to their mental health. I hated it. Teachers put in so much effort, did as much as possible for the children and that was the result.
Just praying as many parents as possible get the booster, take their kids to be vaccinated and more start being sensible about symptoms. If they do that, we can hopefully stay open.
Unless people are literally dropping in the streets there should be no more school closures. This pandemic has already adversely affected childrens education and life chances and nobody will ever convince me that they ever “catch up”. Not to mention their mental health and how many children were abused during lockdown without teachers or their extended family on hand to even notice what was going on.