A decision by some schools to test millions of teenagers for Covid before readmitting them will see the full opening of secondary schools for the Autumn term delayed by at least two weeks in many cases. The Sunday Times has the story.
Parents were warned it would not be “business as normal” in the new academic year after the Department for Education confirmed that schools will be allowed to stagger starting dates while pupils are tested twice for the virus.
Close contacts of children found to be infected will be traced and if they test positive they too will have to self-isolate.
Lessons in many secondary schools are not expected to start until the second week of the new term. …
Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary, said in July the success of the vaccine roll-out meant that schools could look forward to a fresh start in the autumn. He ditched measures, including teaching in small groups or bubbles and requiring pupils to wear facemasks.
However, a survey this weekend showed that many schools will refuse to obey Government instructions to open as normal without taking measures to curb Covid transmission. The poll of more than 1,200 senior teaching staff found that nearly one in five schools are planning to stagger the start or end of the school day throughout next term.
One in eight secondary schools will ask that masks be worn in class and a third of all schools said they would take Covid-related precautions. Four per cent of those polled by Teacher Tapp said they would teach outdoors. …
Steve Chalke, Chief Executive of one of the biggest academy trusts, Oasis, said: “This is all last minute again. Head teachers have called for months for a way of opening schools and keeping them open to avoid a third year of academic disruption to children.” He said Oasis would decide next week whether to use facemasks in classrooms from September.
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Why do they hate children so much?
They don’t hate them as such, they just love using them as weapons to advance their collectivist cause.
Because children are the future and they want to simultaneously destroy and control the future.
They’re fertile.
For now
Because they’re other people. This implies they’re – at best – an irrelevant nuisance and at worst, an semi-avoidable health risk to the corona riders.
Because children are innocence itself and what we’re dealing with is pure evil.
You open them, then you keep them open.
Happy to help, I’m surprised that was so confusing.
Downvoted accidentally 🤦♂️
Easy to fix, just click on upvote afterwards
Indeed – and, if you do it twice, you convert to an uptick: lovely jubbly!
And you stop with all the fucking testing. No testing, no cases. No cases, no self-isolation madness. And you stop with the forced masking child abuse.
yes but what will happen to us then We will have to go back to NORMAL!!!!!! .And i have grown quite fond of the pointless “4000 people today tested positive” news items that make it look for all the world like some kind of serios illness whilst real serious illness is getting the same sort of attention it would have got in the 17th century
I could recommend a good therapist 😊
Well now the always shaky “real” excuse has run aground there is nothing left but to resort to an even shakier pretend excuse ,Dont get me wrong but i hope aftre this shit show hundreds of kids stay off school with bad colds,flu etc just to teach these tunnel visioned morons that this is what life is made of .It is not made of Covid19 and never will be FIGHT BACK
”many schools will refuse to obey Government instructions to open as normal without taking measures to curb Covid transmission. ”
Why do they want to curb covid transmission and do they really think that you can curb transmission of the Delta variant? Are they not watching the news from N/Z and Ausralia? did King Canute teach them nothing? In my view a better policy would be to abandon testing of children unless they actually get sick.
The other day I was reading that exposure to the 1958/59 flu epidemic has given long lasting immunity and may even protect against Covid, I remember as a lad back then, going around and helping out our neighbours who were sick, I never got ill but presumably was exposed to the virus. I have always done quite well at fighting off flu ever since. Might it not actually be in the children’s best interests to expose them to Covid and get it over and done with?
I’m confused as to how immunity to an influenza variant could provide protection against a completely different type of virus.
That’s an extraordinary claim that would require extraordinary evidence.
Yes, I’d not think that exposure to an influenza virus would directly protect against a coronavirus. But: it seems entirely plausible that exposure to stuff in general helps you to build general immunity. I wonder what is going to be the long term effect of isolating children like this.
As I recall this was probably the point of the article I read, the flu outbreaks of the late 1950’s trained our immune systems, t-cells etc. to be good at mounting an immune response.
Yes, but who said anything about the children’s best interest?
Just in case anyone was thinking that we’d moved on from covid.
Well done the unions – again! This government do not really expect the public sector to thank them by voting for them, do they?
Most unions now are comprised of wishy-washy namby pamby bone idle middle class pratts.
Much like the government
As usual let’s ignore the evidence from SWEDEN! Let’s ignore evidence from Florida and other un-locked States!
I said this last year and it still holds true, parents need to form into groups and refuse to send their children to school…they need to engage with this nonsense for their children’s future, they need to refuse to accept it.
I honestly don’t think it’s a question of ignoring evidence any more, if it ever was. It’s just politics, from the government and from the unions. OK, there are probably some teachers who are actually worried about covid, but the drivers here are nothing to do with covid. It’s just a cover.
I know a few people with school age kids and they all just dutifully comply with every bullshit measure they are asked to do, some enthusiastically, some find it very annoying but they do it anyway because it doesn’t occur to them that they have a choice.
What choice is that?
Well, I think the testing was all actually voluntary, as were the masks. I’m not saying that these are easy choices or choices without any negative consequences, but sadly that’s where we are.
And while you can’t stop a school being closed, you can protest to the head teacher, the board of governors and the local authority. They will ignore you most likely, but if every single parent protested, they might start to realise that the measures are unpopular. I am well aware that it’s unlikely that every single parent will protest, but that doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do.
The other option is home schooling but I appreciate that this is a big step and not practical for many, and in a way somewhat counter-intuitive as you’re ruining their social life.
So there’s not really any choice…
Well you can choose to not test, not wear a mask and choose to protest as best you can to relevant parties, organise with other parents. Not choices without consequences, but that’s life. If everyone did all those things, maybe nothing would change. But if no-one does any of those things, definitely nothing wil change.
The problem with masks is that most children fear being different. They don’t want to be picked on by their peers, even if masks are making them ill.
But they are up for silent disruption of authority, so I imagine they are readying the coke cans and swapping ways of cheating observed testing… according to whether they want to study or not.
My kids have never worn a mask, never tested, don’t use hand sanitizer every time they enter and leave a classroom. I have now also managed to mitigate my oldest from having to sit, bored out of her box, in 2 hour periods for all subjects. Instead she has been given a condensed timetable with independent home study and time out of the classroom to pursue work she finds more challenging.
This is because I wasn’t prepared to sit back and just go with the flow. Take an active interest and things can change.
Good job, Dante!
I am impressed with your daughter’s attitude. She clearly takes after her mother (I think you’re mum, not dad?).
Sadly mine is much like her more conformist father and is terrified of standing out (unless it’s for having the coolest trainers 🙄) even though she says the masks give her constant headaches. It simultaneously breaks my heart and makes me livid with rage.
Behind your personal experience and determination lies a hard truth : if parents consent to child abuse, then who resists?
There are a number of factors operating.
The key one is that the fear pressure hasn’t gone away – so a lot of parents will be supporting this. Union leadership, like ‘leadership’ in schools has undergone a transformation as schools have become another money-making scam for the privatisers, with sharp-suited floating turds (‘chief executives’) gaining charge and group think taking over. They might stick their hands out, but they won’t be doing the same with their necks. Kerchingg!
Rationality has second place in this environment of graft under a disaster of a government.
True still a lot of frightened parents and teachers out there who are actively perpetuating this crap. As is the case with my kids primary school Headteacher, you would think we are living through the Bubonic plauge the way that school carries on.
Refreshing change with my daughter’s High School though, her new Deputy Year Head is definitely a sceptic, mask free at all our meetings and told me he is listening to a podcast on Dictators, think we will get along ( thank God).
Many parents are part of the problem.
Yes by letting education chiefs dictate what happens to their own children with a whimper of complaint ,if that!!!
Who do you mean by ‘education chiefs’?
I am afraid that this is true. One parent told me that since children are the main vector of infection …! … it was vital they should be stabbed asap.
Well parents can protect their children from thsi shit if they want but DO THEY WANT??? oh what can we do there are only millions of us and the government are so hard and violent we are afraid ” .What uutter fucking rot we have in this country at the monemt.Im afraid this is what happens when you have a useless woked up selfish leadership it produces exactly the same in its people .If you or anyone is not happy about this then DO something about it with your fellow mum,dad,parent,friend,collegue,etc instead of pretending we live in China
There is no shortage of people trying to work as little as possible and keep the corona gravy train running as long as possible.
Scum.
I see that Vauxhall workers are going to be allowed to take barrowloads of car parts home to make your new Corsa there. I am making it up of course, but I am sure you understand the message that home-working doesn’t really apply to a large class of workers, mainly the ones use their hands.
As someone said: We haven’t really had a lockdown. Rather, the middle classes stay at home while the working classes do stuff for them.
Very true. It’s called Communism, where the peasants do all the work in the mistaken belief that everyone is ‘equal’.
At every turn this government have proceeded to ruin this country during this period .They have over reacted,hysterically,ignored useful important sciebtific information ,sent everybody home and then paid them handsomely ,They have molly coddled the entire workforce into some kind of early retirement experiment tht could never be sustained and have now failed to reckon with the average Joe saying he dosent want to go back to work .ITS NOT SAFE they cry, not actually giving a shit if work is any safer than the Toby Carvery THEYVE JUST VISITED.So mum and dad are not going to work ,the kids are not going to school and all the shopping comes from the back of a lorry (literally).The real thing is this:Did anybody you know or work with two years ago ever talk about working from home or this being the future ,No!!!!!! its just horrible apathetic opportunism from the very same class of people who despised that bloke who hasnt worked for two years and has all his bills paid for him the lazy work shy bastard
Yes but i cant go back to work ITS NOT SAFE repeat endlessly
Any excuse.
Seriosly what are these people “pretending” to be afraid of and for what piss poor ulterior motive Either virtue signalling or pay rise bargaining power
As predicted here we go, so Kids get mass tested, the crappy PCR tests will show that there is a massive uptick in cases and off we go on the Lockdown merry go round again just in time for winter. You really could not make this stuff up. ANy chance the school union leaders are getting funding from the Chinese? nothing would surprise me. Time I think for parents to start picketing schools, demand their taxes to be returned and for all teachers supporting testing to lose their jobs as they are clearly not in the job for the benefit of children.
The union are at the forefront of all-things-woke and Corona is still the wokiest game in town. I’ms sometimes tempted to think that all of Corona was nothing but accidental, global repercussions of US electioneering.
Business as usual, “Looking forward to kickstart the next Corona-season by mass-testing of healthy pupils” and – of course – do everything in our power to ensure that schools will finally remain closed.
That’s the only thing which concerns these people.
Yeah, kinda feels like teachers and their Unions don’t want to teach kids 🤔
In western countries, Unions are communist cells. They ‘help‘ people who dislike working.
What this post needs is some schoolboy humour.
There is a touch of alarmism in the headline of this article. The Sunday Times article say that school opening may be delayed by a least one week in some schools. Somehow this becomes:
“Full Opening of England’s Secondary Schools to Be Delayed by at Least Two Weeks”?
Ah well, of course none of the “alarmist” predictions of the “conspiracy theorists” made last March 2020 and since have come true, have they?
And the fascists now running the world have not indulged in alarmism, and neither have their despicable lackeys in the media.
Ah well, of course none of the “alarmist” predictions of the “conspiracy theorists” made last March 2020 and since have come true, have they?
I wasn’t following you guys in March 2020 but I get the impression that your predictions were more on the lines of “there is nothing to worry about” than raising the alarm. As predictions, they did include at least one very notable failure.
And the fascists now running the world have not indulged in alarmism, and neither have their despicable lackeys in the media
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
There were lots of predictions. The ones that said that covid was political and that there were agendas being followed that were not connected to sincere public health concerns look truer all the time. Endless rounds of restrictions, propaganda, vaccine fascism, censorship, money being wasted, connections to other agendas. All look more and more accurate.
Two wrongs indeed do not make right. But this is a war. You have to choose a side. Within limits, slightly rum tactics are legitimate if they serve to draw attention to an issue.
But this is a war. You have to choose a side.
Really? No scope for just trying work out what is true – even if it is somewhere between?
The truth is important, but the government doesn’t care about what’s true or rational. They will continue building up the fear until the social credit scheme is fully implemented.
Hiram Warren Johnson: The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Well of course one tries to work out what is true constantly. Based on my current view of what is true, governments around the world and their lackeys and other carpetbaggers along for the ride are waging war on me, and on people in general. I’ve seen no evidence to the contrary, and plenty in favour.
If you’re not on my side then you are aiding the enemy.
Yes and in Australia they are literally shooting at civilians now bet they kinda feel like they are under attack.
I guess my concern is that your beliefs about what governments are up to colours your perception of the facts – everything is seen through that lens.
I’m visiting this site because I like people and dislike politicians. Have pity of me.
True, MTF. There is some heartening news in the polls, but I’m expecting some new terror any minute that will demand full masking again.
Even more advantages to private school pupils then.
Any kid with an IQ above room temperature, who doesn’t want to live the life of a needled slave in the future, must simply refuse to get tested and exempt him/herself from wearing the muzzle.
Not holding my breath with this lot of spineless cretins though.
What children will look like after years of muzzle wearing:
Are schools locked when not open daytimes? I seem to remember mine was open during holidays, not that anyone was interested in going in to investigate.
If I was a parent I’d be inclined to send my kids as usual and tell them to go into the school and use whatever facilities they fancied, even if there were no organised lessons or teachers, and come home when they’d had enough. Unfortunately most parents are too weak and most kids too ready to conform to peer pressure. No doubt the school management, unions and covidian parents would wet themselves and call the Police.
It’s good prep for Zoom University and degrees in Cognitive Dissonance.
Ah man. If only there was some way in which they could have been tested the week before school opened… obviously children cease to exist during the six week holidays so the only way they can be tested before school starts is for the teachers to have an 8 week summer holiday rather than the six week one they usually get.
This is disgusting. the government wants to dumb children down by withholding education…so scared that even kids will see through their cruel ill informed lies.