The Fear
A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
100 percent with you on this. Its who has a horse in the race i guess. Its very easy to say shut the schools when you haven't got kids at school and its easy for me to say the kids need to be in school because in my case i have one 5 months from A levels who has missed 3 months of his courses , has had nearly a year of disruption, stress and is still expected to be doing exams competing with his equivalents in Scotland, NI and Wales who are not doing exams. The other will be preparing for GCSE's this time next year
My lad was due to do his mocks next week and that's now changed with a few days notice.These are very young people.
They have not had any online lessons , just work set on email. Some marked , some not. We haven't had parents evenings. Remote learning mantra from the government is a joke and a lie.
Make no mistake with what has been achieved at private schools who had the funding and facilities to go online immediately the more the state kids are out of education the bigger the gap between haves and have not widens.
I appreciate what JF said about him being able to catch up and progress despite missing all his schooling but that is one individual. What we are facing is thousands upon thousands of kids needing to catch up months of lost time. There is no leeway for this amount to catch up because the next year are coming through and so on and on. There is no capacity to catch up.
People are dying. It isn't just the kids now getting it in order to spread it, it is the teachers and other adults at risk.
And yes there is time to catch up. And yes they are young, and actually, the young can adapt a lot easier than older people in my opinion, if they are given the credit to do so.
And I'm not that bright, or that much of an excemption. If I could do it, without the force of the education system behind me (they will mobilise for the entire classes/years - they - obviously - couldn't for just one person,in this example, me. I had to do it.
You don't need skin in the game, or a horse in the race, to be able to form an opinion. I do have a beautiful niece and a wonderful nephew at Uni, and friends with kids, it isn't an ignorant throwaway line I put re schools (and you weren't suggesting it was I'm sure).
Health comes first, for all though, the rest, can be sorted, no matter how disruptive right now it all is.
I don't have the answers on this, I don't have faith that our Government do either. I don't have faith in the public much either, so maybe we should just open everything, close the hospitals and be done.