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A primary school principal has written to parents urging them not to send their children to school on June 1 because social distancing is “impossible.”
Howard Fisher, principal at St. George’s Church of England Elementary School in Sheerness, Kent, says he “would rather have a child repeat the year” than die.
The government’s plan is to send freshmen and sophomores to England for reception on June 1.
But Mr. Fisher wrote: “I can be honest here and tell you categorically that there is no social distancing in a school; there is and never would be.
“The reason why childhood illnesses are spread in a school is that we are all in contact with each other. I can put two children in opposite classrooms and they will still get chickenpox because that’s the way it is in a school. This virus makes us believe it is a super spreader “.
The 50 pages of government COVID-19 The make-up strategy advises schools in England to stagger break, drop-off and pick-up times, reduce class sizes to just 15, and create one-way systems to avoid student-to-student contact. Teachers will not be offered PPE.
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Mr. Fisher said that in the absence of a reliable test or vaccine “there is a possibility that things are going well” and that “being well is not good enough when it comes to the precious gift that your child is.”
In the letter dated May 11, he added: “Trust me, I’d rather any child repeat a year earlier than return too soon and have to lose a child.”
It comes after the chief scientific adviser to the Department of Education, Osama Rahman, admitted to a committee of the Commons that there was “little confidence” that children will not spread coronavirus at school and cause a second wave of illness.
Schools across the UK are testing measures of social distancing before it reopens.
Orton Wistow Elementary School in Peterborough shared an image of his setup on social media, describing it as “austere and empty.”
One year, a teacher posted a photo of her class with established social distancing measures, saying she is “terrified of what our new normal will be.”
Families who do not send their children back to school next month will not be fined, but parents are strongly encouraged to take seats.
The Department of Education told Sky News that Mr. Rahman had clarified his position, saying he had faith in the government’s school plan, subject to his five tests.
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