What's The Logic Behind School Closures?

I think the amount of teachers and support staff that are now self-isolating has meant that it is impractical to open schools.

if you keep schools open more kids get infected to spread it about though

kids will  be the main carriers

now released on to the streets in the day to infect the adults

shop lifting in a town near us will rocket

for tim vallance read Gerald ratner,neil woodford,steve McLaren,david moyes for 5 mins we gorge on every word before we realise their chemical ali

Think Petraco could be right or will be in any case, i think they should have shut the schools ages ago,

So could we possibly guess who the teachers might have caught the virus from?

Surely it would have been better left to individual schools to make a judgement as whether they had the capacity to stay open?

Why DD? schools were only kept open to "protect" the economy,it is only a few days after the herd immunity path where they were happy to let everyone have a dose.

Schools shut till .. err .. the summer holidays   In all my schooldays I think there was one day when the school was shut (flood due to burst pipe) and what a day for celebration that was.  All self-respecting kids will be infecting for all they're worth - might be able to bunk off for the whole year at this rate

in them days ballistic school wasn't a refuge from crack smoking alcho,s knocking foook out of you,

Teachers exhausted.

Maybe they realised that sacrificing teachers wasn't the best strategy....

Will be a harsh lesson in the reality of having children for some of these households where both parents work and expect teachers to bring up their feral children.

A classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Whatever they decide some fool will be hollering insane questions at em in seconds. Never seen so many pathetic people in my life.

as responsible grand parents the wifes just locked the door and took the phone of the hook,

At least with gangs of bored teenagers roaming the streets the OAPs might finally stay at home and self-isolate.

indeed saddo can you imagine the sort of inane questions that would have been barked at Churchill during the war if he had to out up with this pointless farce every day then

Pubs and restaurants will be shutdown inside 5 days. Trust me on that one.

Then the sh1t will hit the fan on the island.

Any supplies required from Europe, get to the back of the queue.

You've only to look at the bilge on here mafeking. I daren't put the TV on, hysteria and endless ridiculous questions 16 hours a day.

The hysteria over 100 odd deaths, what are they going to be like if it goes into the thousands. Media cause the mass panic, the whole thing will be gone by the summer.

The logic is pandering to the hysterical. Read comments to any Daily Mail article and you will see that they all think they are going to die unless everyone is cocooned in cotton wool for the next six months.

Classic response to media hysterics, the politicians get bullied into responding by being seen to do something to placate public opinion. The govt was right but the media mob need to be put in their place.

shows you much the worlds changed regards higher education etc ,in my day 70% of 15 yr olds would be going straight into the work place ,so in theory from today 40 years ago we,d have tens of 1000,s of new workers in the market place ,but despite hours of chit chat about school closures never heard it mentioned,
try and sign on early guys n girls

I work in a school. We have doubled up classes as teachers have self isolated (not bunking off as they are some of the hardest working people I know) Some children are off at parent request. You then have to teach a lesson and after send work home electronically to those who are off. From Monday, we can send all the work home and teach remotely using Google Classroom and run a 'normal' timetable. I slightly feel like cannon fodder surrounded by snotty children all sneezing and coughing but hey ho!

Yep you will be just a matter of time,thank god they're off

Would love it if the kids got their homework sent to them every week, i suspect they were thinking the summer holidays had started early. Maybe they can still sit their exams, worry about the sick people and help them.

There won't be any exams this year..

Mar 18, 2020 -- 3:17PM, treetop wrote:

Classic response to media hysterics, the politicians get bullied into responding by being seen to do something to placate public opinion. The govt was right but the media mob need to be put in their place.

Amen to that. our media is woeful

We have doubled up classes as teachers have self isolated (not bunking off as they are some of the hardest working people I know)


Lol - these are the jokes folks.

Ibrahima Sonko, saying this from the bottom of my heart,i am accused of being "hysterical" in this and other threads.

I like many others believe the numbers are way higher,
i believe the numbers are massaged as being now in the category of "suspected" rather than confirmed to hide panic.
i believe the dire warnings of the other world leaders ofthe effects of this.

I will gladly take any amount of ridicule if i am wrong, my consciense won't allow me not to put this post up,social distancing IS.

10k is not an unusual number for flu deaths. It varies. Pneumonia killed 28k a few years ago.

Let’s not forget 650k+ people die in our nation every year.

There is ZERO perspective in the information we’re fed. Every death is reported as if it’s a unique event for someone to lose their life.

2 years ago in the States, 45m people had flu. 61k deaths. A rate of 0.13 %.


https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

I JKUst want to know HOw all you medIcAL EXPErts know this stuf COs I dont

I am just as interested in how I get a load of dosh back off the chinese -

there is one are in england that had negative immigration - yes  a decline

and it has very low infection rates  (it it is being tested that is)

anyone thinking this through and why london has a lot more than most?

where is one of the busiest through flow of foreigners and returning people from china et al?

of course you nazis will start pointing fingers

but where do all these non british diseases come from

mind you there a lot of definitions for 'british'  these days

Spoken like a true card carrying member of The Labour Party

at least us labour members are people who are honest unlike the creeps who pretend to know something about political parties and comment endlessly but never having been a member
either join or put up

the leadership however, I would leave at your house to debate a vacuum

We have doubled up classes as teachers have self isolated (not bunking off as they are some of the hardest working people I know)

Lol - these are the jokes folks.

Yes, cramming the extra children all in one room with one teacher, which by the way way, would not bother me,because I could teach a class of 40 if I had to in extreme circumstances..but in these times, I am glad to teach remotely.

not the greta xr polution you want to feed to the poor helpless things

paulypaul 19 Mar 20 22:00 
We have doubled up classes as teachers have self isolated (not bunking off as they are some of the hardest working people I know)

Lol - these are the jokes folks.

Yes, cramming the extra children all in one room with one teacher, which by the way way, would not bother me,because I could teach a class of 40 if I had to in extreme circumstances..but in these times, I am glad to teach remotely..


About time a week or two too late,lets hope no long term consequences took my lad out yesterday daughters just finishing her A levels,there won't be any exams this year..N

Number 1/ rule


Never trust the tories ever

having done it  - I do not see 'teachers' being described as hard workers  - sorry on that

I think your political pursuasion/bias blinds you  - but then being part of it you would be

I have never seen such a biased political driven union(s) and group of so called teachers in my life

and I am a lefty
!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Number 2/ rule


Never trust the Tory enabling BBC

You won't go far wronng..

Expand on rule no1 ?

All the schools will actually have to remain open - it turns out that EVERYBODY is on the list of "Key Workers"

How revealing - it turns out that all the little darlings with "special needs", "learning difficulties" and "behavioural issues" are the ones that have TWO parents working. So it turns out that expecting your children to be brought up by total strangers on minimum wage isn't the best thing for their well-being.

Never mind - their teachers will pick up the pieces.

Now I will be going into school from Monday and through some of the school holidays to look after the children of key workers. But I don't care (well, I do a bit on the health front) because I feel a moral obligation to do so for all those people carrying on and doing their bit for the country. It is interesting that the younger teachers are already making their excuses. F*cking pathetic generation of free loaders who think life owes them everything from eating out at restaurants twice a week to skiing holidays and then moaning that they can't afford a deposit for a house.
What is going to happen in the coming weeks and months is going to change this country because some will have to find resillience they did not know it was possible to have. Rant over.

Fair play to you Pauly, i have someone belong to me who won't turn their back either,not brave but not much choice either, it is dangerous whatever way you look at it,  good luck.

I would love that pauly and would honour you for it -  have you ever seen children properly brought up

it is an impossibility for the whole country and referring you back to the 70s  (small is beautiful)

but I would refer you to Amanda Owen  yorkshire shepherdess and her nine children with husband clive

absolute anathema to  90 percent of our current crop

meanwhile  will they stop the drug run out of landan

ps     stand up to the current agenda and narrative and you won't have a chance

how ever if they havent got money or food

we are looking at a different situation

I always think that this is what XR and greta want to wish on us

they are very dangerous people

There is no logic in it . The situation is forced .

Politically media led, No reason why kids cant all attend school and watch a teacher on skype. Everything is politically motivated by the braindead left who dont care about the virus but about point scoring.

Sickening.

Boris and Rishi are now described as leaders of the brain dead left?

Next you will be saying Captain of Industry Branson will ask the Nanny State for a tax payer bail out..........of course he won’t, that’s just me being silly!

The media bear more responsibility for this than Johnson, the BBC were screeching all over the news and phone ins - why are our schools open,putting enormous pressure on the govt to be seen to react,damned if they did and damned if they didn't. The media need to be curbed.

So the BBC are in charge of the Country now?

Must be all dem Socialists on their Board!

We need leaders not followers

most of them live within the CIVIL SERVICE

Says a lemming.

Johnson and his advisers advocated delaying WD, the media went for this in a big way. Hindsight criticism is too easy.

Hi ho ho!

Nobody knows the right answer but some do and some dont, mainly in hindsight or for political gain.

Hopefully at the end of this we will get a better media.

Come on then Einstein


The media bear more responsibility for this than Johnson, the BBC were screeching all over the news and phone ins - why are our schools open,putting enormous pressure on the govt to be seen to react,damned if they did and damned if they didn't. The media need to be curbed.

Are you saying Dorris is so weak he has been forced to close Schools by the BBC?

Northern italy was stuffed with chinese

Read an excellent book Scared to Death about various hysteria over the last 40 years WD, by Christopher Hichens and Richard North, you will spot many parallels.

Says a man with a leftist agenda.

Christopher Brooker?

Old tories in SEETHING SHOCKER

Aye WD, my mistake,apologies.