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Originally Posted by Pierre
Infuriating news that schools aren't going back. Bad for the parents, bad for the kids. Really bad for kids that live in violent and abusive homes.
My youngest is in FR so I'm not concerned about him, my eldest is in Y4, as soon as he can he'll go back to his tutor over summer, so will hopefully catch - but not everyone can afford a tutor and they will have missed over half the school year and will now needlessly miss a at least a months schooling.
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I understand it'll be personally frustrating, but the Government correctly can't be seen to take unnecessary risks with the R number close to 1 in so many regions and many schools unable to fully implement physical distancing.
Those in abusive and violent homes have been in them since March, and remain in them over the relatively imminent summer holidays. I'd be first in the queue to suggest we more adequately fund social services and deal with these families with the full force of the law. However an additional eight hours a day, for four weeks Monday to Friday, is a negligible risk and one that it's unfortunately necessary to take against the backdrop of an uncontrolled pandemic.
Now if we had a fully operational and reliable test, trace and isolate system we could mitigate the risk of the pandemic. It's vital that this is in place for September.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
I think you just want the kids out of your hair !  Maybe its good news for any grandparents asymptomatic kids might pass the virus on to...
It would make more sense to start the summer holidays now and restart schools in August. But that requires a little imagination from all concerned. |
It doesn't make sense if you want to use the time in August to try out easing other lockdown restrictions or evaluate existing ones.
The country are, falsely, are under the illusion that the indicative dates are fixed or that this is a one way street. This isn't helped by the barrage of idiot questions from the media who ask the most irrelevant questions on timing - pubs opening, holidays abroad, etc. and set additional arbitrary and unnecessary "targets" in an increasingly fluid situation.
It's not failure for the Government to push something back a few weeks, or reverse a change, if the data suggests we need more time to evaluate what is happening on the ground. Given the time someone can experience onset of symptoms from infection can be around two weeks it can take 3-4 weeks to fully evaluate changes. Which makes changes in that period inherently riskier than waiting.