Educação: em Inglaterra os professores não aceitam o caos das indecisões governamentais

 

... e querem, muito justamente, na medida em que lidam diariamente com centenas ou mais, de crianças e jovens adolescentes, ter protecção. Cá em Portugal, como se sabe, as ordens do governo, como vi naquela cena da junta médica onde fui, é de mandar todos para a escola, mesmo que sejam de grupos de risco e imunodeprimidos. Só que cá os sindicatos não querem saber...

Teachers take legal action as chaos grips England's schools plan

Unions advise teachers to stay away from schools and warn reopening plan is an ‘utter shambles

The planned reopening of schools in England has descended into disarray, as unions advised teachers not to return to the classroom, heads took legal action over the government’s plans and senior Tories warned that school gates may have to remain shut for weeks to come.

There are growing demands this weekend for teachers to be given swifter access to the Covid vaccine and for schools to gain greater military help in testing pupils safely and reliably. Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), told the Observer: “The people I represent will be going into their schools and colleges on Monday not knowing precisely which staff they may or may not have. There is significant uncertainty. It may well be that there are lots of school leaders who will be writing to parents saying, ‘We don’t know what we can do on Monday, your children shouldn’t be coming in’.

“It is obvious to everybody that the government has made an utter shambles of the arrangements for the start of the spring term with late and confused communications, and the lack of a clear scientific rationale.”