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8 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
NEU and Unison press release on protecting education
#edutwitter
#ReleaseTheDataOnSchools
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Action that needs to be taken
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My thoughts on the current situation in schools.

If the government isn't willing to fund a recovery plan, then they shouldn't be so complacent about transmission in education causing more disruption and harm.

I thought education was govs "moral duty"?

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7 Jun
1/🧵@MattHancock just now in the Commons
Secondary students are seeing largest rise of Delta cases.
Children are much less likely to be harmed but they are "more transmissible"

Then he twice ignored questions about why masks have been removed in secondary
2/ Higher transmissibility in school children

Higher transmissibility in school children!

No answer on masks

No answer on masks twice!
3/ Which is a bit odd seeing as I've been fed a daily diet of being told that there's no sign of meaningful transmission in schools and that children hardly transmit

Media have found lots of experts and pediatrics quite certain theres nothing to see here
Read 15 tweets
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6 Jun
🧵Somehow in the UK we have a narrative that vaccines and masks are important for everyone except children.

Every hour experts and gov advisors are in the media claiming school arent really contributing to infection rates and arent driving Delta growth Image
How can children not be impacting infection rates when so many are being infected?

If over 40% of cases in my LA are in schools,how is that not significant? Local PH director says it is, PHE report says it is,yet PHE blog disagrees with own report?
vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2021/06/05/bor…
3/ UK reports find infections high in children, other countries look at UK data as sign of the impact of schools on transmission, yet the reporting of these studies and data seems to completely minimise children's role in transmission.
Read 10 tweets
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4 Jun
Pediatrics vs PHE report ImageImage
PHE Blog vs PHE Report ImageImage
On @LongCovidKids

Pediatrics vs Parents ImageImage
Read 14 tweets
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4 Jun
Its like a PR spin doctor has been inserted into PHE to contradict the reports its staff have worked hard on.

This is preposterous
#ReleaseTheDataOnSchools #edutwitter Image
They quote data from March, ignore the data released yesterday which was only up to 11th May.

So this is before masks were removed in secondaries and wider restrictions were relaxed
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While the Treasury baulks at the cost of lost learning, Johnson seems comfortable with Delta spreading in schools which will result in more disruption.

Whatever this government says education clearly isn't a priority
Read 5 tweets
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3 Jun
The government is suppressing data on Delta B1.617.2 cases in schools, this could have implications not just for the UK but for the rest of the world, and yet most our media are giving Johnson a free pass on this.
#edutwitter #ReleaseTheDataOnSchools
vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2021/06/02/whe…
@Johnrashton47 view of UK government's policy Image
Event tonight to discuss the implications
Read 6 tweets
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31 May
What's the bet that as B117 was falling in the community, it was in education where B1.617.2 was increasing.

And whilst they knew this, they still went ahead with removing masks and suppressing the data instead of acting.
#edutwitter #ThirdWave Image
I think the government is hoping to obscure scale of the issue in schools and gamble that hospitalisations are still low by 14th June, they will announce further loosening but keep masks in certain places so they can claim this is a sign of caution
Yet we still get voices in media claiming children are practically immune, that transmission is so low that UK schools don't need masks.

A lot of the world are shocked by the lack of measures in UK schools.
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