Schools And Teachers

[lady-janine]

Can someone please explain why the teaching unions want to close schools?
Would they be pleased if all health workers just downed tools and went home saying we'll be in touch online?
Would they appreciate the thought that all supermarkets should close because the workers might come into contact with the virus so why should they work in a shop or deliver by lorry or van?
Would they like it if all other key workers just said 'It's not safe for us.' 'We're not going to come into work any more'.

It is so cheering to know that they are considering the future of the next generation and ensuring they are doing the job they trained for.

Any thoughts?

[emmie]

eleanor, then perhaps it was bound to happen. As awful as that is,

[diddlydo]

Teachers that I know - and I know many - worked doubly hard when schools were closed in the first lockdown.

[jakep]

As eve has pointed out, home is not a safe place for many children.
Domestic violence of all kinds has been proven to have escalated since the pandemic.
Having said that, I agree that schools should be closed...a great place for transmission of the more virulent strain. I live in NW Kent. A local nursery have no staff available as they are all positive. The grandson of a friend, aged 11, is ill with the virus.
I simply don’t know how this dichotomy can be resolved. We are dealing with a previously unknown enemy.
Some children will suffer and some will get COVID....it’s all upsetting and very scared.

[jakep]

Scary!

[emmie]

it is scary, and no i don't have the answer as i said previously. My nephew has had to isolate for 14 days i think because a classmate tested positive, no one i know has it apart Minty on ab, she is long covid and is still struggling months on. My friend will home school the children half the day and her husband the other half, no idea what my family are going to do as both work full time

[eleanor2]

emmie, one view then another ..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55518248

[gness]

That’s wonderful. Makes it so much easier for teachers and parents to make a decision.

[Ellipsis]

The open schools of our time are the open wells of John Snow's time.

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https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowcricketarticle.html

British doctor John Snow couldn’t convince other doctors and scientists that cholera, a deadly disease, was spread when people drank contaminated water until a mother washed her baby’s diaper in a town well in 1854 and touched off an epidemic that killed 616 people.

Dr. Snow, an obstetrician with an interest in many aspects of medical science, had long believed that water contaminated by sewage was the cause of cholera. Cholera is an intestinal disease than can cause death within hours after the first symptoms of vomiting or diarrhea. Snow published an article in 1849 outlining his theory, but doctors and scientists thought he was on the wrong track and stuck with the popular belief of the time that cholera was caused by breathing vapors or a “miasma in the atmosphere”.
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[jno]

Snow solved the problem by removing the pump handle, which basically worked overnight; but the cure might have been worse than the disease if the locals hadn't had other options - like going to a different pump.

There aren't that many options for working parents.