because small kids are poorer at following rules
If I was the decision maker I would ask most kids learn remotely, but allow kids of frontline workers or deprived kids still come to school.
That sounds reasonable and logical. It won't happen.Why not simply close the schools for January and open them for a month longer during the summer?
We are going to have a terrible January, but after that, things are going to get better month by month with the roll out of the vaccine.
There is a much better chance that we can have a proper Leaving Cert in July than in June.
Brendan
I think some form of this is likely. They can cancel the two mid term breaks and reduce the Easter break to gain back some time as well.Why not simply close the schools for January and open them for a month longer during the summer?
We are going to have a terrible January, but after that, things are going to get better month by month with the roll out of the vaccine.
There is a much better chance that we can have a proper Leaving Cert in July than in June.
Brendan
I don't know how you can be so sure about that Paddy. They are in the classroom for 5 hours a day but play for 40 minutes. One is indoors and one outdoors; possibly a big difference.Social distancing within classrooms hasn't really worked because they play in the yard together.
I don't know how you can be so sure about that Paddy. They are in the classroom for 5 hours a day but play for 40 minutes. One is indoors and one outdoors; possibly a big difference.
How many cases of Covid19 were there among the children in you class/school?I am sure based on my experience since September. It's impossible to keep the children away from each other. They forget, both inside and outside of the classroom.
Even some of the children pretended to sanitise their hands if they could get away with it.
Though my class were in pods of 2, in reality they all got mixed up. Going out to the yard, coming in, they forgot to social distance.
I have windows open but even with distancing of tables from each other, they are not 2m or even 1m apart if they turn around to each other, which is what they did.
Our lunch breaks were split so that there were less pupils in the yard, so the classes were inside for half of the big break.... policing distancing where they turned to face each other was almost impossible.
In the yard, balls and other equipment were banned so they started playing running/chasing games. This generated heat, sweat, fast breath etc. and these games all seemed to end with them all congregating together.
Keeping children apart in a school setting is only in name. Practically it's very hard to enforce.
Bottom line is children forget, both inside and outside the classroom.
What I was trying to say in my last post (albeit badly) is that social distancing within specific classes didn't work but did between different classes.
Did they infect anyone else or did they get it at home?Within my class, two that I know of (informed by parents).
Children are far less likely than adults to infect others.I was never contacted by the HSE but I was a close contact according to my doctor.
I had to sort my own covid test. Came back negative. (I wear both a mask and a visor)
No it doesn't. GDPR is about personal data. Stating total numbers of cases doesn't breach it.Within the school, don't know. We aren't told.
GDPR etc. makes it all hush hush.
Did they infect anyone else or did they get it at home?
Children are far less likely than adults to infect others.
No it doesn't. GDPR is about personal data. Stating total numbers of cases doesn't breach it.
No they can't.[Children have a better immune system than adults but they can infect adults pretty fast]
1. I hear of children being sent to school while sporting the symptoms of Covid. [Get them out of the house; damn the consequences]
2. Some months ago school principals couldn't get a contactable telephone number of some responsible person in the HSE. [Since rectified]
3. Students are being sent to school while their parents are awaiting the result of Covid tests. [Don't tell anybody syndrome]
4. Children have failed to keep safe distances in playgrounds. They meet after school too and often congregate in groups. [Children have a better immune system than adults but they can infect adults pretty fast]
5. Everybody working within the school systems at a higher risk than most others without. [My opinion]
6. The Track and Trace capability has all but died miserably. [Not a moral boost for school workers]
7. The initial supplies of hand sanitisers supplied to schools were found to have some adverse effect on users. [Wait for the litigation procedures to kick in later]
8. I understand school principals are governed by GDPR. [Does this mean they cannot identify those infected with Covid?]
. . . . . . . on the other hand . . . . . . . .
I see school going kids sanitising their hands properly entering shopping centres (rubbing the sanitiser liquid over all fingers above and below and even into the fingernails plus their wrists. Most of us adults who walk past the sanitisers could learn from the kids. Keeping schools open before February is irresponsible.
I think facts and detail is what we need now. There's more than enough fear going around.I think we could all dial down the certainty a little, it's still a new virus after all.
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