Teaching or not in schools
Currently teachers are being paid to stay at home in the main, and teach their own children if they have any. Some of them go into the care hubs every now and then to sit at the back of the classroom on their phones and put on films on netflix. The children of the key workers are not being taught anything to avoid them being advantaged. Instead the key worker parents have to teach their kids when they come home from work ( tired ) so inevitably the children of key workers are not getting taught anything at the moment, so are being disadvantaged. There are also vulnerable children who are off the radar. Children need teachers more than anything and they are the one public sector worker who are not stepping up to the challenge. Keyworkers are putting themselves at risk when they go to work. The children going into the childcare hubs are putting themselves at risk as there is no social distancing. Yet teachers dont want to open schools because of the risk to themselves? Obviously they would rather stay at home for 5 months holiday. I am going to find it difficult to ever listen to a teacher who says you shouldn't take a child out of school for a weeks holiday because of what they will miss, yet when they themselves get to stay at home for months all of a sudden children will be fine as long as you do baking and gardening with them.
Teachers should be back at work, open up more hubs, and should work over the summer reaching out to the vulnerable children that have been abandoned so that there is not such a huge attainment gap which will ultimately affect all children of all levels.
Why the contribution is important
Vulnerable children need teachers. Teachers need to step up. Key workers are currently doing two jobs while teachers are barely doing one or just teaching their own kids. More hubs need to be open. Teachers need to reduce the attainment gap before it becomes too large and every child suffers as a result.
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