Once you follow the absurd logic of the Gov in "tackling" this virus, you must shut all schools now and for several months at least.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55511662

Of course politically they don't wish to do this and there is no evidence that doing so would achieve anything at all.

But how can you ask teachers to risk their necks with this deadly plague and kids spread the super fast virus to every family in the UK!!!

The sooner we follow the absurd logic properly the sooner this will end; as even the slowest will start to realise the "cure" is worse than the illness.

Yes, I don't care if they try to stamp out out the virus or if they let it run free, as long as what they do makes sense.
You cant have a bit of this and a bit of that and any other bit of nonsense you want to chuck in.

I think if they are going to shut schools they should shut them all, and stop abusing children by forcing unwilling or unable parents to teach them at home.

I had a teeny bit of revenge earlier in the year.
My children were home educated, and we used to lend our teaching equipment to the local school.

One of my neighbours was very anti learning "otherwise" and rudely objected to this because it might "interfere with the curriculum".

Fast forward to the pandemic and she was struggling to teach her grandchildren while the school was closed, and asked to borrow the stuff!!!

Admittedly, it was not my finest moment but I stuck my nose in the air, said that I wouldn't want to interfere with their curriculum and walked on by.

Honey wrote:
Yes, I don't care if they try to stamp out out the virus or if they let it run free, as long as what they do makes sense.
You cant have a bit of this and a bit of that and any other bit of nonsense you want to chuck in.


If I have got it badly wrong and this is indeed a national emergency of war like proportions then do it properly.

Lockdown, fully, everywhere until all the vulnerable are vaccinated.

Don't expect teachers to risk a likely death; you wouldn't have asked them to wander round London during the blitz...

Stop the furlough scheme now. We may as well get millions used to the poverty that is inevitably coming their way now Xmas is out the way.

Wyot wrote:
Stop the furlough scheme now


And how would the current recipients pay for their food, accommodation etc?

Maybe the government should provide unemployment benefits instead!

Am I alone in thinking that as a child I would have lurved my school being shut ?

Alison wrote:
Wyot wrote:
Stop the furlough scheme now

Maybe the government should provide unemployment benefits instead!

Oh they (we) will be by the millions soon Barney; that is the point.

You don't actually think that furlough is a solution (or even intended to be) to the economic catastrophe that has been needlessly created and presented to suckers as inevitable do you?!

hedda wrote:
Am I alone in thinking that as a child I would have lurved my school being shut ?

No. When I was a child in the UK in the days we used to get proper winters, me and my brother would eagerly listen to local radio before breakfast in the hope we would learn the pipes had frozen and our school was shut.

Then would follow a day of sledging and snow fights. Sounds Dickensian these days but was only the late 70s/early 80s!