Teachers and their union representatives have every right to be wary of government efforts to get them back into the classroom without due attention to their safety.
Many are no doubt looking at the total failure to exercise a duty of care toward health and care workers.
Teachers in state schools also must wonder why, if it is so safe to return, their counterparts in the public schools are not doing so till September.
Yes, children do need to get back to school, being locked at home, often in cramped conditions, is no good for anyone. But staff and children can only go back when it is demonstrably safe to do so and not as part of some behavioural science experiment.
published - Independent - 17/5/2020
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