‘Children have suffered enough and sacrificed more than should ever have been asked of them’
@Julie Wasson-Thompson:
“If they go down this road again, it would be the final three years of my son’s schooling having been ruined. He has not sat an exam in formal conditions since his GCSE mocks in January 2020, so his year group has been severely undermined ahead of planned A-Level sittings next summer.
“Schools should absolutely not be shut again, especially when so many children have now been vaccinated. Our children have suffered enough and sacrificed more than should ever have been asked of them, all because of the panic of middle-aged ‘experts’ and politicians.”
‘Home education seems the only viable option for the future’
@Philip Searle:
“A good home education is far superior to a state school lottery. Home educators get zero help from the Government. The future in education is bleak for children trapped in this cycle of fear and anxiety, where health and safety regulations are completely mad. This is no way to run a state education sector.
“Home education seems the only viable option for the future. No more predictions of doom, please, Prime Minister. What’s the point of it all if it harms children?”
‘The damage done by months of part-time, low intensity education will be profound and permanent’
@Greg Crane:
“Many thousands of children have effectively fallen out of the education system and will never return. Their lives have been blighted by decree and their life opportunities curtailed by diktat. Many more thousands have had their education so seriously compromised that they will never have the opportunity to catch up and will never realise their full potential.
“Even for the most fortunate the damage done by months of part-time, low intensity education will be profound and permanent. The impact upon individuals has been profoundly negative and will be multi-generational in effect. “
‘It all feels like a horrible repeat of last year’
@Dun Lan:
“The problem is that the Government has relaunched campaign panic; schools are reacting to advice from health officials – it’s tough to keep face to face teaching going when the message being put out is that people should be working from home, avoiding contact and preparing for a tsunami of Omicron. Schools have been told to prepare for testing in January.
“It all feels like a horrible repeat of last year. I’m just waiting for Christmas services to be cancelled and the rule of six reintroduced.”
‘Make schools safe and everyone will be happy to go in as normal’
@Laura Rogers:
“I am in favour of school closures. Get our children out of schools until the Government gets it act together and installs proper ventilation in every classroom and offers children a vaccine (with consent, of course).
“As many parents as possible need to put the effort into homeschooling to make it a success and offer the only protection there can be for key worker children to have somewhat fewer contacts in their classrooms.
“Make schools safe and everyone will be only too happy to go into school as normal.”
‘Children deserve better’
@An Anon:
“This is why the Government needs to categorically say schools will never close again. Perhaps individual schools may need temporary closures due to staff shortages but blanket UK-wide home learning and the cancelling of exams cannot happen every year for evermore.
“The Government needs to say this now, before the Unions get over excited and families expire from the stress of it all. Children deserve better.”
‘Adults need to carry the burden and get boosted’
@Peter Foulds:
“As a teacher, I agree fully that schools should stay open, but that means adults need to carry the burden and get jabbed, get boosted, follow all the other rules even if we hate them. There are many who moan about school closures, but then complain about the measures adults need to take.”
