Home Learning (Schools)

Are you suggesting all key workers should be put up in hotels away from their families?

 

Are kids in school getting a full curriculum? I know of a number of schools that have such small numbers that year groups are combined so the dedicated teacher time is less than usual as they are looking after/teaching mixed year groups.

 

You want me to live away from my kids just so I can continue working? Are you for real?

I'm assuming you don't have your own family or there's no way you would even suggest that.

 

Stop talking sense. Elderly and vulnerable shield, never heard anything so daft. Let’s feck up our kids futures so some great grandma or grandad who’ve only gotten a few months left of breath can enjoy their last moments.

 

What's the percentage of adults that are over 70 and or/vulnerable? I bet it won't be far off the 30% figure either.

 

totally agree, here is the English list of critical workers


Critical workers
Parents whose work is critical to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and EU transition response include those who work in health and social care and in other key sectors outlined in the following sections. Children with at least one parent or carer who is a critical worker can go to school or college if required.

Health and social care
This includes, but is not limited to, doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributors of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.

Education and childcare
This includes:

• childcare
• support and teaching staff
• social workers
• specialist education professionals who must remain active during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response to deliver this approach

Key public services
This includes:

• those essential to the running of the justice system
• religious staff
• charities and workers delivering key frontline services
• those responsible for the management of the deceased
• journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting

Local and national government
This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of:

• the coronavirus (COVID-19) response, and the delivery of and response to EU transition
• essential public services, such as the payment of benefits and the certification or checking of goods for import and export (including animal products, animals, plants and food), including in government agencies and arms length bodies

Food and other necessary goods
This includes those involved in food:

• production
• processing
• distribution
• sale and delivery
• as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines)

Public safety and national security
This includes:

• police and support staff
• Ministry of Defence civilians
• contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and EU transition)
• fire and rescue service employees (including support staff)
• National Crime Agency staff
• those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas

Transport and border
This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response and EU transition, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass and those constructing or supporting the operation of critical transport and border infrastructure through which supply chains pass.

Utilities, communication and financial services
This includes:

• staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure)
• the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage)
• information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the coronavirus (COVID-19) response
• key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services)
• postal services and delivery
• payments providers
• waste disposal sectors

 

so you are telling me each year group have their own teacher just for them in the classroom? Even those with just one child? Who is looking after the online side of things if all the teachers are still teaching in class full time?

 

here is a good tool where you can put in council name and it estimates key worker level. Lowest I could find randomly picking areas was Islington at 25%

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/articles/coronavirusandkeyworkersintheuk/2020-05-15#how-many-key-workers-are-in-your-area

 

Your reply is that bizarre that I honestly can't work out if you're being serious or not?

I've no idea on how I should even begin to reply to something that to me just makes no sense whatsoever.

 

That's a very bizarre suggestion from one of our usually more sensible posters on here.

Where the hell are these key worker parents going to live? What if both parents are key workers?

 

Sorry Simon, but I think a child missing not living or seeing one of their parents is more damaging than missing out on a few weeks of education