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1. Total shitshow in relation to Special Schools and Classes over the last couple of days. But well done to all the teachers and SNAs who organised to pile on the pressure and force a change of mind from the government
2. The announcement yesterday could & should have been that while all schools have to close immediately because of the serious public health situation, work would begin immediately to ensure the graduated reopening of Special Schools and classes as soon as it could be done safely
3. Families would feel cared for and supported..
Instead many of them tonight feel abandoned, And the blame will be put on teachers who have been put through a couple of days of unnecessary hell.
Instead many of them tonight feel abandoned, And the blame will be put on teachers who have been put through a couple of days of unnecessary hell.
4 If they were honest and said that there is an obvious public health risk in opening schools and an obvious social health risk for many children and young people in closing them and what we are trying to do is balance those two risks..
5...People - teachers and parents - would be able to engage in that conversation instead of being treated like fools and having to listen to the Schools Are Safe mantra as nauseum
