Brighton Sky Blue
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Universities should be open for practical subjects only, as should schools
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Universities should be open for practical subjects only, as should schools
Certainly doing that in unis and secondary schools would make sense in high transmission areas. It’s the same all over Europe though. France and Germany are currently announcing new, tighter ‘lockdowns’ but leaving schools open I think
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Brighton Sky Blue
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They are and I think they're wrong on that as well unless they have different data
I agree, as you and others have said, the other elements appear to be just fiddling round the edges
Grendel
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How would that actually work in reality?
Brighton Sky Blue
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I had in mind year groups being in on a fortnightly rotation weighted most heavily in favour of the senior year groups, allowing practical subjects to be delivered close to normal and the rooms to be deep cleaned at the end of the day. In most schools these subjects tend to be in the same block making implementation easier
Grendel
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So they would be in school all day? In universities surely people going would be from separate halls and spread the virus anyway
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Universities are able to come up with justifications, academically, why you need access to other items such as the rare books, archives etc. Got to be all or nothing with them, really.
Brighton Sky Blue
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They would be in school all day for a couple of days in a fortnight at most. Universities would be able to manage this more easily and just send home those in non-practical courses to free up and collapse accommodation space for the (small) remainder. You can't teach Science/DT/Art/Drama/Medicine remotely all year whereas you can for the bulk of other subjects
Brighton Sky Blue
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That is surely much easier to do by appointment than it is to deliver predominantly practical subjects that require labs?
BodicoteSkyBlue
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Is he hiding in the fridge again?
Grendel
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If parents were working and had children specialising in science and others not how would they be able to make this work?
Grendel
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Anyway I think lockdown will not be an option - I expect this to be a common theme across Europe
www.google.co.uk
Coronavirus: Lockdown protesters in Italy throw bottles and smoke bombs as stricter rules come in
Thousands have taken to the streets to object to night-time curfews and an order to close gyms, cinemas, and swimming pools.
www.google.co.uk
Brighton Sky Blue
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It could work in a similar way to the arrangements in the summer term. Likely to be less of an issue due to more parents working from home
Grendel
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What if one works in a factory and another is a nurse?
Brighton Sky Blue
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If we're down to essential workers only who can't get care then they would be entitled to come in. I should add that in a school of approximately 2000, we had maybe 15-20 needing such provision in the summer term. It isn't a deal breaker and I think you'd agree with the overriding view that it isn't fair on practical subjects to not be able to do practical work for a whole year
You were saying that in the Spring though.Anyway I think lockdown will not be an option - I expect this to be a common theme across Europe
Coronavirus: Lockdown protesters in Italy throw bottles and smoke bombs as stricter rules come in
Thousands have taken to the streets to object to night-time curfews and an order to close gyms, cinemas, and swimming pools.
Grendel
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I wasn’t - is this fake news?
Saddlebrains
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So France and Germany going back into Lockdown.
Only a matter of time now for us surely? With Boris the follower
Only a matter of time now for us surely? With Boris the follower
Brighton Sky Blue
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Depends what the focus groups say
chiefdave
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SAGE recommended lockdown on 21st September and subsequently said that the longer it was left the less effective it would be.
jimmyhillsfanclub
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....but schools remain open in both countries....as they should in the UK.
Ian1779
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If you want to keep transmitting the virus then sure.
Sky Blue Pete
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Why are we so slow again?
Brighton Sky Blue
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The kids in those year group 'bubbles' are mixing like there's no tomorrow
jimmyhillsfanclub
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The social, mental and educational damage is too great.....at risk registers and referrals thru the roof.....
....we've simply gotta find a way to keep them open imho
Ian1779
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Ideology trumps science.
Ian1779
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You could have stuck an extra week on the half term to begin with, and just made sure those Tory c**** provide food for those that need it. No impact educationally whatsoever.
Lets be honest if you can't afford to feed your child you're doing something incredibly wrong.
Brighton Sky Blue
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If people gave a shit about educational damage they'd let me teach outside of a fucking box and let me do practical work with them.
shmmeee
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It’s got to be full lockdowns over the holidays and maybe extended half terms, so you get a two week lockdown every month and a half or so (if the data shows you need it obviously).
If they were smart they’d have reorganised school terms with maybe slightly longer semesters and longer breaks. Invested in remote learning, ideally a National solution (whole bunch of
with as little impact on teacher workload as possible and allow WFH where possible for students to reduce class sizes. Practical subjects in as BSB suggests with sensible precautions. Push exams back a couple of months and hope we can claw back F2F time in the summer.
Instead we’ve done... nothing.
If they were smart they’d have reorganised school terms with maybe slightly longer semesters and longer breaks. Invested in remote learning, ideally a National solution (whole bunch of
with as little impact on teacher workload as possible and allow WFH where possible for students to reduce class sizes. Practical subjects in as BSB suggests with sensible precautions. Push exams back a couple of months and hope we can claw back F2F time in the summer.
Instead we’ve done... nothing.
jimmyhillsfanclub
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Indeed....and if you scroll a few pages back....you'll see i suggested just that.
They've fucked it big time.....so now it's probably all about damage limitation until an extended xmas hols as we watch that bolted horse ride over the horizon
Brighton Sky Blue
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What if the only job you can get is a zero hours one and some weeks you don't get any work while others you get a pittance?
shmmeee
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And the child should starve because it’ll teach the parent a lesson? Isn’t collective punishment a war crime?
Brighton Sky Blue
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Food bank stats from the Trussell Trust showed a significant rise up to March, you can guess it'll have gone through the roof by this time when the next stats come out. By all means lazily blame the individuals en masse but have a look here first
www.trusselltrust.org
End of year stats | Trussell
View stats for food parcels distributed by our community of food banks in the past 12 months.