Is the policy of opening schools more about getting their parents back to work

Not much teaching goes on during last school half term in primary schools...so not sure how much education these kids wil be receiving.
 
Summer hols not too far away. Seems to make sense to wait till after then.

Those approaching GCSEs should be capable of doing some set work over the summer at home if necessary. So yes, hard to see it being about anything else.
 
It’s about creating herd immunity. Children will be the spreaders, and we have all of the nightingale hospitals ready for the much bigger second wave.
 
motownjunk said:
Have friends working at schools that have stayed open so children of key workers can attend school. They have all said the kids are not really learning anything and they are just well paid child minders.
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I was in school two weeks back and there was around 30 students present.
 
my friends are not working everyday they are on a roster. They are teaching a mixture of ages, not really possible to teach a mixture of ages. Obviously if they return in June they will all be the same age. Teachers won't necessarily be teaching their own classes or even age ranges, in fact most won't. How will this work with lesson plans? By the time teachers and kids get up to speed it will be time for the summer break.
 
Speaking as a teacher: My opinion is that is has nothing to do with education whatsoever. Their reasoning is two-fold. 1.Enable more parents to return to work, this helping to get the economy moving again. 2.Send in the youngest who are less able to socially distance and see whether it causes a higher rate of infection/death; in other words, an experiment.

There is a manipulative media campaign trying to build the idea that the teaching unions and teachers have different intentions. I can tell you, they don't. Both want children and staff back in school, when it is safe to do so. Nobody in government is convincing us that it is safe.

Williamson didn't answer a single direct question about safety today, simply repeating 'education is important'. Trying to guilt the profession into playing ball.
 
They are not supposed to be doing any new learning at the moment and when they go back they are doing 'recovery learning'
 
petrio said:
Speaking as a teacher: My opinion is that is has nothing to do with education whatsoever. Their reasoning is two-fold. 1.Enable more parents to return to work, this helping to get the economy moving again. 2.Send in the youngest who are less able to socially distance and see whether it causes a higher rate of infection/death; in other words, an experiment.

There is a manipulative media campaign trying to build the idea that the teaching unions and teachers have different intentions. I can tell you, they don't. Both want children and staff back in school, when it is safe to do so. Nobody in government is convincing us that it is safe.

Williamson didn't answer a single direct question about safety today, simply repeating 'education is important'. Trying to guilt the profession into playing ball.
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Nail on the head Petrio. My wife (a teacher) says exactly the same.
 
Aside from not knowing how infectious kids are if they catch the virus, you've also got the questions around who will look after them in the window between school finishing and their parents returning home from work, particularly as the option of grandparents looking after them should be an absolute non-starter for now.
 
dooderooni said:
Aside from not knowing how infectious kids are if they catch the virus, you've also got the questions around who will look after them in the window between school finishing and their parents returning home from work, particularly as the option of grandparents looking after them should be an absolute non-starter for now.
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One of many things to consider. The assumption I suppose is that employers will have to be accommodating. I don't know what my own school is doing, but my daughter's school is offering after school provision until 4p.m. It's not the same as 'normal' which could be up until 5:30, but it is something. I'm going to have to send my daughter in, as I feel that, if my school is open, I should do my share of teaching. If I didn't;t have to, I wouldn't send her in (Unless evidence is shown that it will be safe).
 
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