BMA backs teachers, says it's too soon to re-open schools

Doctors have backed teachers' unions by saying Covid-19 infection rates are too high for England's schools to reopen.

The British Medical Association said teachers and heads were "absolutely right" to urge caution and prioritise testing to avoid a second spike.

It comes after teachers' unions met the government's scientific and medical advisers to express concerns about the planned phased reopening from 1 June.

The NASUWT union said no school should reopen until it could show it was safe.

England is the only UK nation to set a date for schools to start to reopen.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has insisted schools would only open their doors more widely when the conditions were right to do so, with the earliest date being 1 June.

He said he had wanted to give head teachers and parents several weeks to plan for the event.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Doctors have backed teachers' unions by saying Covid-19 infection rates are too high for England's schools to reopen.

The British Medical Association said teachers and heads were "absolutely right" to urge caution and prioritise testing to avoid a second spike.

It comes after teachers' unions met the government's scientific and medical advisers to express concerns about the planned phased reopening from 1 June.

The NASUWT union said no school should reopen until it could show it was safe.

England is the only UK nation to set a date for schools to start to reopen.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has insisted schools would only open their doors more widely when the conditions were right to do so, with the earliest date being 1 June.

He said he had wanted to give head teachers and parents several weeks to plan for the event.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52669441

Well, there you go. Medical professionals backing up education professionals backing up what parents across the country are saying. Maybe we're not just a bunch of over-protective helicopter parents after all? Maybe we're not just lazy people who want to stay on furlough? Maybe we actually know what we're talking about, seeing as we have kids in school and we actually know what happens in those schools.

Maybe we figure that if schools can't stop lice from spreading, they can't be trusted to stop the spread of a deadly virus.

Ben Reilly wrote:Go on, then, Didge!

Show me where this article says that medical scientists agree with the plan to re-open schools on June 1.

Thorin wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:Go on, then, Didge!

Show me where this article says that medical scientists agree with the plan to re-open schools on June 1.

Show me one medical scientist in the article?

Opps