The biggest predictor for younger children is apparently a runny tummy. But the point is that we don’t know because the range is wide and, ofcourse, includes no symptom at all. What I find inexplicable is how little prepared we are to respond through test and trace. We have known for ages when schools were reopening and we all know that back-to-school has always resulted in viral infections. So what didn’t happen during the summer to make it so embarrassingly awful now?
Dennis Boylon
3 years ago
It is the same thing. LOL.
Graham Veale
3 years ago
I’m afraid that we are in danger of accepting certain propositions without evidence. Eg. 1) Blended learning – part time attendance supplemented with online learning – is a hindrance to education and not an opportunity; and that applies to every age group. Says who? 2) Part time attendance would not address safeguarding concerns. Where’s the evidence for that? 3) The return to a normal timetable has prevented a mental health crisis in children and adolescents that could not be solved by any other means. And the data for that is….?
We’re also treating children from the ages of 4-18 as one demographic when we talk about infection rates etc; treating every school in the country as they all operate in the one context; we’re ignoring Israel’s experience (which was not at all like Iceland’s); and relying on experts at the expense of those with front line experience.
Government policy and expert advice all seem unimaginative, poorly researched and badly out of touch with how schools actually operate.
It’s all rather depressing.
GV
Adrian Smith
3 years ago
Why oh why don’t they look at Sweden, which never shut schools below 16 at all? In order to catch up we should not be sending kids home, but locking them in with their class mates a bit like the chicken pox parties mums have when you want to get your kids through that little tribulation before they hit school age.
The biggest predictor for younger children is apparently a runny tummy. But the point is that we don’t know because the range is wide and, ofcourse, includes no symptom at all. What I find inexplicable is how little prepared we are to respond through test and trace. We have known for ages when schools were reopening and we all know that back-to-school has always resulted in viral infections. So what didn’t happen during the summer to make it so embarrassingly awful now?
It is the same thing. LOL.
I’m afraid that we are in danger of accepting certain propositions without evidence.
Eg.
1) Blended learning – part time attendance supplemented with online learning – is a hindrance to education and not an opportunity; and that applies to every age group. Says who?
2) Part time attendance would not address safeguarding concerns. Where’s the evidence for that?
3) The return to a normal timetable has prevented a mental health crisis in children and adolescents that could not be solved by any other means. And the data for that is….?
We’re also treating children from the ages of 4-18 as one demographic when we talk about infection rates etc; treating every school in the country as they all operate in the one context; we’re ignoring Israel’s experience (which was not at all like Iceland’s); and relying on experts at the expense of those with front line experience.
Government policy and expert advice all seem unimaginative, poorly researched and badly out of touch with how schools actually operate.
It’s all rather depressing.
GV
Why oh why don’t they look at Sweden, which never shut schools below 16 at all? In order to catch up we should not be sending kids home, but locking them in with their class mates a bit like the chicken pox parties mums have when you want to get your kids through that little tribulation before they hit school age.