British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it is a ‘moral duty’ to open schools despite the coronavirus pandemic, in a column written for the Daily Mail.
Johnson found himself in a difficult situation after Dr Mary Bousted, head of the National Education Union, urged schools to ignore “threatening noises” from the government and refuse to reopen until the institutions feel safe, the Telegraph reported.
Bousted told members they could not trust ‘government leadership’, instead looking for local models for safe reopening plans.
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“The latest iteration of government directives is so unworkable that you can not trust it,” Bousted said in a Zoom interview with the Telegraph. “Local authorities and schools need to take the confidence to do what they can and that will mean for many schools that they will not be able to have all the children fully in September.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is speaking with local people at the Canal Side Heritage Center in Beeston on 28 July 2020, in Beeston near Nottingham, England. The government launches a new intuitive cycle to help people get fitter. (Photo by Rui Vieira – WPA Pool / Getty Images)
‘Now the government is making threatening noises about that. But in the end, they can not carry out their threats. ”
In a lengthy dismissal, Johnson put forward an argument for pressure on schools to open, saying a failure makes this “socially irresponsible, economically unsustainable and morally irresponsible.” In his Daily Mail article, Johnson cited a decline in the number of infections that have fallen from an estimated 157,000 in early May to about 28,000 in early August.
“This pandemic is not over, and the last thing any of us can afford to do is be selfish,” Johnson wrote. “But now that we know enough to open schools safely to all students, we have a moral duty to do so. Because there is ultimately no substitute for a child who learns in school to give them the knowledge, skills and whereby life can succeed. ‘
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Johnson argued that the shift to distance learning severely favored the children of wealthy families, with those children spending more than 75 minutes more per day on homeschooling than those of poorer families. He further claimed that one study predicted that the range among the students could expand even more.
The Daily Mail claims that “there has not been a single case in the world of a student infecting a teacher with the virus,” although the paper noted that a model forecast published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health warned that opening of schools across the UK in September could lead to a tsunami of new cases, more than twice the size of the first wave.
A second study showed almost no transfer of students to lecturers, but Professor Mark Woolhouse, Head of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh, said, “The fact that we are not one we can find, and are not yet , does not mean that it is not possible in principle and does not mean that it does not happen on occasion. “
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“Even if this virus does not spread easily among the children, it will certainly spread among staff if given the chance … The proof so far is that the most dangerous room in the school is not the classroom, it is the staff room. That is why schools need to pay attention and not keep the right ball in the eye. ”
