[Zizu]

As regards secondary schools..

How does this sound ... heard on the radio earlier

All Secondary staff to be tested every week from next week onwards


Each pupil to be tested twice in the first two weeks of term - ideally 3 to 5 days apart

Week 3 -
All close contacts of positive cases (staff and pupils) will be allowed to return to school as long as they have a test every day ( for 7 days)


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[Zizu]

COVID-19: Teaching union to hold emergency meeting as PM faces calls to close all schools in England
The National Education Union holds an emergency meeting today to discuss the "chaos which is engulfing our schools"

By Jon Craig, Chief political correspondent @joncraig
Saturday 2 January 2021 10:03, UK


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[Zizu]

Boris Johnson is facing calls to close every school in England after an embarrassing government U-turn which means all primary schools in London will remain shut next week.

A union leader claimed what was right for London was right for the rest of the country and called on ministers to "do their duty" and close all primary and secondary schools to contain the coronavirus.

The demand, from the joint general secretary of the National Education Union, Mary Bousted, came after Education Secretary Gavin Williamson bowed to pressure to close all primary schools in the capital.

Dr Bousted has said her union would be holding an emergency meeting today to discuss the "chaos which is engulfing our schools".


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[Zizu]

Apparently the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) have now started legal proceedings against the Education department..



Staff at schools have a legal right not to return to classrooms due to the spread of COVID, a leading union has said - while another has started legal proceedings against the Department for Education.

The National Education Union (NEU) has said all primary schools should remain closed for at least two weeks following the Christmas break, and is urging Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to move all learning online as infections continue to rise.

And the government's handling of the situation has prompted the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) union, along with the Association of School and College Leaders, to make preliminary steps in legal proceedings.

[Tom4784]

It's foolishness to open schools, if a child has the means to learn at home, they should be learning at home.

As it was in the first lockdown, schools should only stay open for kids who can't learn at home, whether that be for lack of access to the appropriate technology or having parents that key workers or who cannot work from home.

The majority of students should not be returning next week.

[Lee.]

Our schools were due back on Wednesday, but that has now been changed to the 11th, when learning will begin online for all ages, except the children of key workers. This will be reviewed on the 18th, but I reckon they’ll be home for the rest of January.

I’ll probably keep my two home regardless of the decisions made tbh.

[Zizu]

National Association of Head Teachers:

"We are calling upon government to remove people in schools from the physical harm caused by the current progress of the disease" and it has "commenced preliminary steps in legal proceedings against the Department for Education"


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[arista]

Today
57,725 have caught Covid-19


445 have Died


Patients in hospital
Latest available
23,823

Patients on ventilation
Latest available
1,847


74,570 Total Deaths


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

Today
57,725 have caught Covid-19


445 have Died


Patients in hospital
Latest available
23,823

Patients on ventilation
Latest available
1,847


74,570 Total Deaths


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Yes 57,725 new cases .. supposedly today’s figures don’t include Scotland ( according to LBC Radio )




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[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Yes 57,725 new cases .. supposedly today’s figures don’t include Scotland ( according to LBC Radio )




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****ing hell at that chart.

[arista]

[Yes 57,725 new cases .. supposedly today’s figures don’t
include Scotland ( according to LBC Radio )]


Yes not even the Total UK.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

****ing hell at that chart.

Yes 35% increase in infections in 7 days !!


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[Zizu]

As we speak. ..

Live on LBC radio

David Lammy pulled no punches in his criticism of the Education Secretary's handling of schools reopening.

Following the Government U-turn on Friday to keep schools closed in London, David Lammy predicted that another U-turn will be made before Monday.


He said that when he saw that schools in his constituency were on a list to remain open, despite London being one of the worst struck parts of the country by coronavirus, David lobbied Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.

"Guess what? He did a U-turn!" David said that the ease with which Mr Williamson changed his mind meant that it could be done again.


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[arista]

Originally Posted by Zizu

As we speak. ..

Live on LBC radio

David Lammy pulled no punches in his criticism of the Education Secretary's handling of schools reopening.

Following the Government U-turn on Friday to keep schools closed in London, David Lammy predicted that another U-turn will be made before Monday.


He said that when he saw that schools in his constituency were on a list to remain open, despite London being one of the worst struck parts of the country by coronavirus, David lobbied Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.

"Guess what? He did a U-turn!" David said that the ease with which Mr Williamson changed his mind meant that it could be done again.

Of course
Lammy is Crazy Labour

[bitontheslide]

Well Gavin Williamson is a complete cretin, and I dont use that phrase lightly. There have ben a few tragic cabinet ministers through the ages, but he is number 1 in the category. The most incompetent idiot ever to be awarded a cabinet position

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Well Gavin Williamson is a complete cretin, and I dont use that phrase lightly. There have ben a few tragic cabinet ministers through the ages, but he is number 1 in the category. The most incompetent idiot ever to be awarded a cabinet position

Worse than Gove ?


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[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by arista

Of course
Lammy is Crazy Labour

Labour is crazy now. whys this then?

More crazy than a PM who floated the idea of herd immunity during a pandemic?.. :/

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Labour is crazy now. whys this then?

More crazy than a PM who floated the idea of herd immunity during a pandemic?.. :/

Because labour is the opposition so to a Tory, that means they are crazy and unhinged because tories are incapable of seeing beyond party lines.

Blind beyond their noses.

[arista]

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Labour is crazy now. whys this then?

More crazy than a PM who floated the idea of herd immunity during a pandemic?.. :/

Lammy goes over the top.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by arista

Lammy goes over the top.

We are in the middle of a public health crisis... if there ever was a time for politicians to cut the flannel and speak directly, it's now!

[Zizu]

Just listening to LBC radio .. many are supporting the idea of “televised learning’ as opposed to online learning .. they do it on other countries apparently.

Just needs the government to commandeer some tv channels..maybe all the BBC ones ??

A few for primary schools , one each for years 7 through to 11 , another for colleges .... seems outlandish but it it’s done elsewhere who knows ??

Supposedly a high % of pupils struggled with getting online but everyone has a telly ..


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