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21 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
So schools are believed to be driving the new strain, DfE guidence was drawn up predicting low transmission.
Rethink now
If you consider the front page of DfE guidence it still says decisions should be made at a local level.
Remote learning can still count as a full education, government has defined this.
Every whole school risk assessment is now out of date due to new evidence

Every individual risk assessment is also now out of date

Particularly in Tier 4

Hancock "school age students are driving transmission"
If we don't tackle transmission in schools then its rolling lockdowns until summer.
Blended learning would cut transmission, save lives and jobs

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Karam Bales Profile picture
22 Dec
1/ Thread: Summary of the Test&Trace Q&A for school leaders.
Friend sent me a link so I could see what they had to say.
Attendance was low, but don't worry you didn't miss much, "more guidence on the way" was a stock answer
2/This meeting covered testing everyone in secondary and colleges in the first week back, the aim is to test everyone twice with LFTs by 11th Jan and then to be set up for daily testing of close contacts to avoid isolation.
"Still working out details" was also a common answer
3/ There was some acknowledgement that LFTs are less reliable, they accepted there could be false positives, "a positive test needs to be confirmed with a PCR, these are the gold standard"
What are LFTs? Silver? Bronze? Scrap metal?
Read 12 tweets
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19 Dec
Johnson: The new strain is particularly prevelant in London and areas of the South East
Hancock: Infections in students are driving transmission in London

Any bet failure to tackle transmission in schools turned them into petri fishes for the new strain
#edutwitter
Government admitted students were as infectious as adults, they knew students were the most infected groups with figures continuing to rise, they knew half term cut RO, they were advised Nov lockdown wouldn't be as effective without tackling transmission in schools
They were warned about tackling transmission in schools time and time again.
By their own SAGE group, by @IndependentSage, the warnings came thick and fast,but who sets the agenda in this country? Westminster or RW rags and lobbyists posing as think tanks?
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17 Dec
Reminder that it will take 9 staff 3 hours to test 100 people. Gov would prefer to take transmission risks with LFTs and have students spending more time waiting to be tested than learning just so they can boast they kept schools open in RW papers
Not education just dangerous PR Image
Government have told schools all comms to do with testing must be signed off by Department for Health, they're trying to block pictures of 100s of students milling about waiting to be tested for hours while mixing
As well as building a parallel teat and trace system for 500k-1m people a day we must also become DfE PR and propoganda merchants monitoring social media feeds and being "proactively positive" using government approved materials and messaging
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17 Dec
1/ NEU Questions to @GavinWilliamson on LFT mass testing in schools

#edutwitter #SchoolsScandal Image
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17 Dec
Hey @BBCPolitics why did you cut out the most important part of the NEU press release?

Serious concerns have been raised within the scientific community and an article in the BMJ about the unreliability of LFTs, they should not be used as a replacement to isolation
#edutwitter
So @BBCPolitics still gaslighting education workers valid concerns on safety.
Not a single mention of LFT concerns and their use on #r4today when @PaulWhiteman6 was interviewed either

Disgusting
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15 Dec
Thread: Details of testing in schools is out 😅🤣😂😲🥴🤢🤮

Got to be kidding, as if we needed any more proof the DfE is totally out of touch, this could be the crowning glory.

Unbelievable

Reads more like a PR exercise than a Public Health initiative
tes.com/news/coronavir…
2/ Worth beginning with the press release earlier today, dont worry not much work you just need to use January Inset day to retrain as public health officials.

Note that many support staff won't be in as schools cut their training to save money years ago
3/ Step 1 retrain and retitle staff.

100 tests a day will need 9 staff, 11-13 tests an hour per testing bay, so we either need to spend all day testing or have a lot of bays.

How many staff do they think we have in 10 years into a retention crisis deepened by covid?
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