So I keep asking the same question and perhaps some journalist or MP can help me to understand...who benefits from a debate being consistently polarised?
Schools OPEN vs schools CLOSED is a FALSE polarisation.
Schools haven’t been CLOSED previously. 1/
Schools have had to provide remote education in March for the majority.
They then opened for significantly reduced numbers in June.
They started September with inadequate NOT science based ‘guidance’ from @educationgovuk that cited things like this 👇2/
The system of controls 👆as referred to involved allowing bubbles of 300, facing pupils seated forward, improved cleaning regimes, and one way systems.
Nothing to address ventilation and aerosols (despite evidence of aerosol transmission) 3/
In NO OTHER indoor setting where households mix are the basics of FACE and SPACE ignored.
#hospitality restaurants, shops, theatres, music venues, cinemas etc ALL had to limit the number of customers on site to allow for social distancing AND customers must wear masks. 4/
Take a look at the simple 5 step suggestions of @SafeEdForAll_UK
An admission that they are desirable yet because they may require planning, funding and support are not achievable is VERY DAMNING from someone who purports to have the interests of children at heart.
So again, I ask is there a REAL concern about child welfare and education? 7/
Those whom continue to gaslight concerned parents, pupils and school staff are exposing themselves and their ‘fake concern’.
To discuss the provision of education throughout a global pandemic and to NOT discuss why safety measures are ignored is very CONCERNING. End/
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A helpful thread for an email to your school should you wish to notify them that your children will not be returning to in person education yet....
Dear Xxx
I hope that you have had a lovely Christmas break and have kept well.
I am sure it will come as no surprise to you that I will not be sending XXX into school on XXX
Within the last 24 hours, 982 people have died (28 day cut off) and there has been another
50K plus new infections.
The NHS is at breaking point: hospitals running out of oxygen; patients being treated in ambulances; doctors having to decide who gets the ventilator; patients being transferred from London to Yorkshire for their ICUs.
Please feel free to add to this thread the names of those whom have argued AGAINST implementing the same safety measures in schools as are required in all other indoor settings where households mix.
Excuse the poor quality of photos! Response to my FOI request from school trust.
Apparently no records kept of discussions where decision to BAN face coverings was made are kept. Contrary to guidance which says ‘should be a life’s’ NOT BANNED.
Pupils still threatened with sanctions for refusal to remove face covering in classrooms.
Oops autocorrect strikes again 👆 should have said ‘should be avoided’
Sir Patrick Vallance stated on Monday "the way we reduce the spread is by limiting our number of contacts, by reducing contact in environments where spread is more likely. Those are crowded environments, indoor environments, poor ventilation."
A school is a crowded environment. A school is an indoor environment and some schools have poorly ventilated rooms (as air conditioning and heating systems cannot be used safely due to transmission concerns).
My household has gone from no contact with any other household since March, to contact with 600 other households. My sons are each placed in 'bubbles' of 300. Seated in classrooms (approx 8m x 8m) with 30 pupils, no social distancing is possible and no face coverings are allowed.