St. Mary’s Church of England Primary in Hereford, and Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio in Lancashire, have imposed their own ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdowns, with pupils being sent home and all teaching taking place virtually for at least a week. Both headteachers have said that the reason for shutting the premises is because of concerns that in-person lessons would be disrupted by a Covid outbreak, with parents worried that schools will begin to close again before Christmas. The Sun has the story.
St. Mary’s Church of England Primary in Hereford and Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio in Lancashire have shut for at least a week.
Campaigners fear many more schools could follow suit in the run up to the Christmas holidays.
They say children are being treated as “second class citizens” and must be allowed to stay in the classroom.
The move is being fought by parent group UsForThem, which battled to get kids back in lessons after last year’s lockdowns.
Mum Arabella Skinner told the Telegraph: “As the experience of last year shows, these isolated cases of school closures don’t stay isolated for long.
“The worry is that in the run up to Christmas we will see more examples of this.
“For how much longer are we going to ask our children to stay second class citizens?”
The group’s founder Molly Kingsley added: “We’re deeply saddened to see schools closing due to Covid.
“Kids have missed out on so much face-to-face time this year that they just need to be back in their classrooms and with their friends, learning and being children.
“To close schools at a time when adults are about to be enjoying Christmas parties and mixing seems especially unfair.
“It’s time we let our children get on with living their lives.”
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Despite every ounce of data from studies showing lockdowns simply do not work. I would get my kid out of that school ASAP. If the people who run those schools are this stupid what other kind of mistakes are they making with your child’s education?
So they’ve disrupted in-person lessons “because of concerns that in-person lessons would be disrupted”! Right!
I can’t have just read that can I?
I must book an eye test to check my reading specs are OK…
hahahahahahaha. Locking down and creating emotional problems, just in case Government lockdown and cause emotional problems. You couldn’t make it up. I think we need to look at the intelligence levels of our educators.
SARS-CoV2 and the ‘common cold’ are going to be around forever, so might as well close all schools down tomorrow, and forever. Will make good accommodation for the 400-1,000 folk arriving from France every day.
but If you decide to take your child on holiday during term time you get a warning letter or a fine! I’d be using this against the school if they ever tried complaining about attendance.
Seen on another forum …
“Countries should consider mandatory Covid vaccination, says WHO Europe
Countries should consider implementing mandatory Covid vaccination, the director of World Health Organization (WHO) Europe said today.
Robb Butler said that although “mandatory vaccine can, but does not always, increase uptake”, he suggested countries should start thinking about the issue.
It comes after Germany’s tourism commissioner, Thomas Bareiss, said he expected vaccination to become mandatory in the country. Austria plans to make it compulsory from February.”
From the Guardian, I think … where else.
Fascists.
The UN has got to go.
And the WHO, WEF, UNESCO, WWFN, in fact ALL the totalitarian NGO’s.
BBC News website
Covid in Wales: 2,000 patients die after catching virus in hospital – BBC News
‘More than 2,000 people in Wales, who probably caught Covid in hospital, went on to die within 28 days, data shows.
There have been at least 8,243 cases of patients probably or definitely catching Covid in Welsh hospitals since the start of the pandemic.
About 27% of those died within 28 days, though not necessarily of Covid, having been admitted for other reasons’.
They seem to want their cake and eat it
‘though not necessarily of Covid’
It’s not really a Covid death then if we our darling NHS causes it
The ‘more than 2,000’ is actually 2,225 (27%)
The 2,225 is 35% of all the recorded Covid deaths in Wales (6,361)
As the infection rates in pubs is 1% with an IFR of .3% wouldn’t it have been better to close the hospitals and keep the pubs open
Pretty sure this is illegal. The school has a duty under the Education Act to educate. Unless it’s been instructed to close by the Public Health Department using powers under the public health act, then parents should still be taking the children to school.
Btw, I live in Hereford. Which one; there’s two St Mary’s Primaries; Credenhill or Fownhope?
Dear Mr. Taxpayer,
“Illegal” is what I and my former schoolfriends say it is.
I am,
Your Obedient Servant,
[Scrawl some unreadable hieroglyphs here, please, Bernard- thanks awfully; HA].
Hello – I live not too far from Hereford.
And my daughter goes to college there, so I visit Hereford quite regularly 🙂
Credenhill
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/schools-education/school-closures
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-59400447
There was no such thing as a ‘circuit-breaker lockdown’ last year, there is no such thing as a ‘circuit breaker lockdown’ now.
This is fake science that surpasses the Piltdown Man hoax.
The Australian Army (ADF – where did they get that name from I wonder) is now carting healthy people off to concentration camps by force. Australia has a Union Jack on its flag. You awake people better get out there waking sleeping people up, while you still have the freedom to do that.
Wake up people, you have a treasonous government committing war crimes against its own people.
Australian Army Now Moving Australians into Concentration Camps
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/11/24/australian-army-now-moving-australians-into-concentration-camps/
“The BLM crowd are awful quiet…
What is happening in the NorthernTerritory!? Lockdowns WITHOUT the 5 reasons to leave home, $5,000 fines for breaches, ADF removing close contacts from their community to quarantine camps for an undisclosed amount of time…where are all the people who mocked freedom protestors, saying ‘you didn’t protest for black rights’?
“I’m seeing people on Twitter who claim to be Aussies saying shit like: It’s fine, they’re in super remote areas and it would be devastating if it hit their communities, and besides, the accommodations are much nicer than they have at home, they’re Aboriginal, so it’s okay, no one minds, etc etc.
Distill it down: They are dirty, ignorant, primitive brown people, disease vectors who shouldn’t be allowed to make their own decisions, so white people will protect them from themselves.
I too remember a time in America when we treated the native population as dirty brown people, disease vectors, and too ignorant to take care of themselves. We too rounded them up and put them in ‘camps’… we just called them reservations.”
“First they came for the unvaxxed Aborigines…”
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticismAU/comments/r113ru/the_blm_crowd_are_awful_quiet/
These teachers are essentially saying they would prefer to be teaching pupils remotely or, perhaps, not at all, but still be paid the same.
What they haven’t quite thought through is that if they can teach pupils remotely, so can another teacher anywhere else in the world, and many of them are willing to do so for far less money.
They will wake up one day and find they are out of a well-paid job and it will be their own fault.
They might say that “you can’t possibly deliver the same quality of teaching remotely as I can face to face”
To which the answer is: “well get your arse back into the classroom then”.
Yes. It will suddenly occur to Miss Teacher that her cosy online teaching gigs have been outsourced overnight from Manchester to Madras. Slack-jawed with incomprehension and of course very emotional, she will then look in the general direction of her Trade Union for help. And some of us will then ask where they- both the Trade Unions and those who thought they’d always be spared, and found it expedient to look the other way- were, and what they were doing, when the combined Police, Military and so-called Security forces of the UK (and very likely the United States) performatively and sadistically crushed the mineworkers, razed their workplaces to ground level and built shopping centres over them to make sure they could never be reopened, as a warning to the rest of us. Unfortunately, these hard lessons seem to have to be re-learned every two or three centuries.
Different subject but posting it here:
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1463311634072576010
Allegations for forced vaccinations of Aboriginal children in Australia.
Notice the media never report Sadlidieds anymore, only scornful stories against anyone who died with covid (positive test) who were not jabbed.
It’s incredibly jarring but the Infected (covidians) don’t see the propaganda. It’s astonishing the depths these gutter trash rags have stooped to. There was a time the public got angry at fake news, i.e., Piers Morgan’s Mirror falsifying claims against the British army.
These days, the idiots champion and applaud such manipulation. The papers are guilty of inciting hatred against a group in society, they break the law every single time they produce this filth.
Why isn’t the Education Secretary telling them that they are not allowed to decide to close schools during what is supposed to be term time? It’s pathetic (but not, of course, surprising).
Probably too busy checking YouGov Plc share price.
Dear Scumbags, THIS is what you are being distracted from today.
They sound like reasonable changes to deter fake protesting terrorists.
Keep accurate – it’s our weapon against misleading media:
“English Schools Stop In-Person Teaching …”
Not difficult to work out the slip-up in that headline.
Surely you don’t think that ‘Online Learning’ is utterly crap?!
I think you may have missed the point.
You can see their thinking, though. “Circuit-breaker lockdowns” have been so successful whenever they’ve been used, that’s why we…er, still have positive tests today.
Mr Perry please refrain from using THEIR terms. These are voluntary school shut down’s and Bunter should be acting to nip it in the bud.
Oh, well! They can always supply the children with suitable yellow cloth, thread, elastic and star templates to take home, to make “Unclean” badges and brassards. Should improve their sewing and self-sufficiency skills no end, and the schools can probably sell them at the online/remote Christmas fete.
The question on everyone’s lips, apparently cannot be asked on air….
https://twitter.com/Justin187421/status/1463482192630329344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1463482192630329344%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2021%2F11%2Fsheffield-united-star-john-fleck-collapses-pitch-tuesday-match-rushed-hospital-tv-live-feed-cut-announcer-asks-covid-jab%2F
Latest VAERS data
If he hadn’t had it, they could just say “No”.
That they didn’t, speaks volumes.
AUSTRALIA: ORIGINAL SOVEREIGN TRIBAL FEDERATION ~ INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ASSISTANCE
No words!
“Lord, you made blind eyes see. Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind.”
Brother Andrew’s prayer when smuggling bibles into Communist countries. This must become our plea to the Almighty too, for the evildoers are unaware of the power of the Almighty, and no weapon they attempt to form against Him can prosper.
Amen, brother!
Providence is absolute. We will win.
That video should be distributed as widely as possible. Only a matter of hours before the Welsh and Scottish rise up against their own dictators and regain their freedom!
You are having a laugh.
Molly Kingsley always shows such admirable restraint in her public utterances, yet privately she must rage at the stupidity, as so many parents must be.
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
What’s wrong with the hardworking staff taking a few days off for pre-Crimbo shopping after all they have endured over these past 20 months?
Crimbo? Let us not forget Christ, on whom, even for those who are only culturally or derivationally affected, our more civilized habits are founded. When and if we become really post-Christian all the civilizational fruits that have attracted many, including non-Christians to our shores, will, ironically wither and die. Britain pre-Christianity was not an attractive place, even if my ancestors way back were most likely part of it! It is in danger of further reverting.
Actually, we became generally more civilized once god-bothering was put back in its box. Unless you had a weird cultish and sadistic attraction to auto-da-fé’s etc.
You haven’t studied much history or literature I assume.
Yes, once people stop believing in god, they believe ANYTHING, mostly marxism (political NPD) and boom 100 million killed.
But wasn’t Crimbo the 13th (and long lost) disciple?
I use Crimbo in a self mocking way as I believe it is used primarily in some working class households where they think that tacky consumerism really is what Christmas is all about. The whole tone of the post might have alerted you to that.
It’s likely that younger members of The Quality adopt it to show each other how up for the plebs they are.
Not my downtick btw, I don’t go in for them and what others choose to believe is none of my business unless it directly impacts on me personally. It seems that some people become outraged when others identify themselves as Chistians or devotees of Prince Philip’s Cargo Cult.
To be fair, they are teaching on line. And some will be against it. It’s the head Xmas shopping here.
All in preparation for Zuckerberg’s Metaverse.
It is desperately unfair to tar all teachers with the same brush. My OH works in a school, and they generally found it much harder during lockdown than during normal times. The staff were uniformly delighted to get rid of bubbles and all that nonsense too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GF0H9V_1g
Miracle in Japan
Ivermectin
I’m saddened to see campaign groups using the false covid narrative.
The schools are being closed due to ideology. At this point, there can be no doubt that the schools are working against the childrens’ best interests.
This has got nothing to do with a virus.
But you can guarantee these lazy b`stards will be swinging their gates open when the nhs mobile “jabatoir” turns up !
Teachers, like doctors, don’t want to work for the money us tax payers are lavishing them with.
Teachers are clearly not fit for purpose. The government should (but won’t) say that any that decline to teach face to face (and with no masks, etc.) are in breach of contract and will be fired. Would be an upheaval but no worse than what is happening at the moment.
I don’t know. It has been the Government spreading this scare about ‘Covid’ – why shouldn’t the teachers play them at their own game? In fact, the whole country should stay at home, nobody should be providing Parliament with food or drink, the bars of the Houses of Commons/Lords should be closed … because ‘Covid’.
But.. if schools are closed, how are the school nurses to carry on with their jabbing?
It’s funny how there is no pandemic when it’s time to go to the supermarket or buy a new smartphone or go to the pub/restaurant.