| Can anyone explain to me... 10:59 - May 11 with 2006 views | Fixed_It |
...why schools can open from June but no word on when Parliament will reconvene? |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:01 - May 11 with 1727 views | BlueBadger |
It's because 4 and 5 year olds are famously calm and sensible and be definitely relied upon not to touch, lick, bite or cough/sneeze all over the place and thus, set an example to parliament. |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:05 - May 11 with 1718 views | JakeITFC |
Parliament is functioning semi-well with MPs at home, I doubt schools are.
Plus some members of parliament are in the range of being 1,000s of times more likely to die from this than children. |  | | |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:06 - May 11 with 1706 views | Keno |
schools are useful and serve a purpose |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:28 - May 11 with 1686 views | Fixed_It |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:05 - May 11 by JakeITFC |
Parliament is functioning semi-well with MPs at home, I doubt schools are.
Plus some members of parliament are in the range of being 1,000s of times more likely to die from this than children. |
Oh right. I missed the bit about children teaching themselves when in school without teachers and teaching assistants, and then staying there and not going home to their families after a day of not social distancing.
If it's not safe for MPs to govern by the conventional way, then why is it safe for children to be taught the conventional way? | |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:28 - May 11 with 1675 views | Fixed_It |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:06 - May 11 by Keno |
schools are useful and serve a purpose |
Good point. Well made. | |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 12:07 - May 11 with 1640 views | Darth_Koont |
Because kids don't appear to be at much risk or even as a risk to others by spreading.
Whereas politicians are a risk to themselves and everyone else at the best of times. |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 12:09 - May 11 with 1625 views | GeoffSentence |
Because our MPs can, and are in terms of parliamentary business, work from home.
If you can work from home, you must work from home. |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 12:32 - May 11 with 1578 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:28 - May 11 by Fixed_It |
Oh right. I missed the bit about children teaching themselves when in school without teachers and teaching assistants, and then staying there and not going home to their families after a day of not social distancing.
If it's not safe for MPs to govern by the conventional way, then why is it safe for children to be taught the conventional way? |
Class sizes will be cut considerably, I would imagined halved, with so many spare teachers and classrooms.
This seems a sensible response so is probably totally wrong and not consistent to the government’s approach to anything. |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 12:48 - May 11 with 1546 views | Pablokuqi |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 12:32 - May 11 by Pinewoodblue |
Class sizes will be cut considerably, I would imagined halved, with so many spare teachers and classrooms.
This seems a sensible response so is probably totally wrong and not consistent to the government’s approach to anything. |
If class sizes are halved, where exactly do the extra classrooms and spare teachers come from? For example a class of 30 with a teacher in classroom 1. Will be a class of 15 with a teacher in classroom 1. Assuming it remains R, Yr 1 and Yr 6 you are right there would be extra classrooms and teachers but they will have to teach the key worker children from the other year groups and still provide work and feedback to their own pupils at home. Of course lots of teachers have children so they will return to their schools increasing the number of key worker children attending. Assuming a two form entry school of 30 in each class, that is still a lot of children turning up on 1st June. We will have to wait for the Department of Education guidance to see how they envisage it working.
Based on current government form it will not be well thought out! |  | | |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:00 - May 11 with 1521 views | Guthrum |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 12:07 - May 11 by Darth_Koont |
Because kids don't appear to be at much risk or even as a risk to others by spreading.
Whereas politicians are a risk to themselves and everyone else at the best of times. |
Not strictly true. There is quite a lot of evidence that children are asymptomatic (or nearly so) carriers of the virus. Just few develop it fully.
A very small number, both here and in the US, have had some sort of highly dangerous inflammation syndrome which may or may not be a reaction to Covid (they don't know yet). |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:06 - May 11 with 1499 views | Herbivore |
They see teachers as expendable. Many earn under £30k so they're not even skilled workers according to the current regime. |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:07 - May 11 with 1498 views | Fixed_It |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 12:32 - May 11 by Pinewoodblue |
Class sizes will be cut considerably, I would imagined halved, with so many spare teachers and classrooms.
This seems a sensible response so is probably totally wrong and not consistent to the government’s approach to anything. |
For social distancing guidelines to be followed most classes will have a maximum of 8 students in - in some cases fewer. That is not 'halved'. | |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:21 - May 11 with 1481 views | JakeITFC |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 11:28 - May 11 by Fixed_It |
Oh right. I missed the bit about children teaching themselves when in school without teachers and teaching assistants, and then staying there and not going home to their families after a day of not social distancing.
If it's not safe for MPs to govern by the conventional way, then why is it safe for children to be taught the conventional way? |
Because the children are orders of magnitude less likely to die of this disease and don't have an alternative. | | | |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:27 - May 11 with 1461 views | PhilTWTD |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:00 - May 11 by Guthrum |
Not strictly true. There is quite a lot of evidence that children are asymptomatic (or nearly so) carriers of the virus. Just few develop it fully.
A very small number, both here and in the US, have had some sort of highly dangerous inflammation syndrome which may or may not be a reaction to Covid (they don't know yet). |
There is evidence - not definitive as yet of course - that they very rarely transmit the virus.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/children-may-not-be-super-spreaders-aftera |  | | |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:33 - May 11 with 1438 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:00 - May 11 by Guthrum |
Not strictly true. There is quite a lot of evidence that children are asymptomatic (or nearly so) carriers of the virus. Just few develop it fully.
A very small number, both here and in the US, have had some sort of highly dangerous inflammation syndrome which may or may not be a reaction to Covid (they don't know yet). |
And I think they need to find out about these possibly linked issues in kids before resuming school, imo. I'd be surprised if there isn't more evidence on this within the next month; now it's been flagged there will be some pretty rapid studies to find out what's going on.
I'm just thankful I'm in Wales as it looks like they're going to hold true to a more cautious path rather than follow England into a (potentially) premature return. |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:34 - May 11 with 1431 views | factual_blue |
dominic.raab@fco.gsi.gov.uk |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:40 - May 11 with 1417 views | factual_blue |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 12:07 - May 11 by Darth_Koont |
Because kids don't appear to be at much risk or even as a risk to others by spreading.
Whereas politicians are a risk to themselves and everyone else at the best of times. |
You can't catch the virus if you're under forty. That's already been established. | |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:40 - May 11 with 1422 views | Mullet |
3.4k likes for a bloke who admits further down that thread to spending his time spying on teachers and lamenting their lack of work ethic.
That's the sort of attitude we're facing right now. |  |
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| Haven't you got 5 minutes worth.... on 13:45 - May 11 with 1404 views | Bloots |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:40 - May 11 by Mullet |
3.4k likes for a bloke who admits further down that thread to spending his time spying on teachers and lamenting their lack of work ethic.
That's the sort of attitude we're facing right now. |
….of "marking" to do before you knock off for the day? |  |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:47 - May 11 with 1400 views | Herbivore |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:40 - May 11 by Mullet |
3.4k likes for a bloke who admits further down that thread to spending his time spying on teachers and lamenting their lack of work ethic.
That's the sort of attitude we're facing right now. |
What a ball bag. | |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:49 - May 11 with 1391 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:40 - May 11 by Mullet |
3.4k likes for a bloke who admits further down that thread to spending his time spying on teachers and lamenting their lack of work ethic.
That's the sort of attitude we're facing right now. |
Don't worry Mullers. You can stalk him on social media during your 5 months off a year.
*runs away* | |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 14:02 - May 11 with 1354 views | Darth_Koont |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:00 - May 11 by Guthrum |
Not strictly true. There is quite a lot of evidence that children are asymptomatic (or nearly so) carriers of the virus. Just few develop it fully.
A very small number, both here and in the US, have had some sort of highly dangerous inflammation syndrome which may or may not be a reaction to Covid (they don't know yet). |
Yes, but children aren't anything like as much at risk and they are limited spreaders too. Certainly, compared to adults who we're letting work and move around society anyway.
We seem to have got this @rse about face from the scientific point of view. | |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 14:07 - May 11 with 1330 views | BlueBadger |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:21 - May 11 by JakeITFC |
Because the children are orders of magnitude less likely to die of this disease and don't have an alternative. |
They are however, several million times more likely to be supercarriers with a propensity for coughing, snotting, spitting, touching and licking over everything... | |
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| Can anyone explain to me... on 14:08 - May 11 with 1329 views | DanTheMan |
| Can anyone explain to me... on 13:40 - May 11 by Mullet |
3.4k likes for a bloke who admits further down that thread to spending his time spying on teachers and lamenting their lack of work ethic.
That's the sort of attitude we're facing right now. |
Well I went down a rabbit hole I wish I wouldn't have done starting with that tweet. |  |
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