Local Councils Still Encouraging Schools to Ramp Up Restrictions
Many local councils are still under the impression that it is not safe for schools to return to normal and are pushing for the return of face masks (which Nadhim Zahawi hasn’t ruled out) and other measures to ‘combat Covid’. If they succed, this will “make a mockery of the Education Secretary’s plans to keep children in the classroom”, says the campaign group UsForThem. The Telegraph has the story.
Local councils have been accused by parents of employing “militant Lefty” health chiefs who are advising schools to ramp up Covid measures to control the spread of the virus in schools.
Headteachers have been told by ministers that many of the restrictions which were in place last academic year are no longer necessary. However, as cases rise in schools, public health teams have been called in to advise that measures are stepped up.
Devon County Council has said it is now “encouraging” all secondary school pupils to wear face masks in communal areas, while City of Wolverhampton Council is also asking students to do so.
Cumbria County Council’s Director of Public Health has told children to self-isolate if one of their siblings tests positive for the virus. They say pupils should get a PCR test after three to five days and only return to school if they get a negative result.
This contradicts national guidance, which says pupils should be off school only if they test positive for Covid-19 or are showing symptoms.
Meanwhile, Staffordshire County Council has given teachers a list of “recommended controls” that can be used to prevent Covid outbreaks, which includes bringing back bubbles to limit contact between pupils as well as staggered lunch and break times. The council said these were measures that schools “may potentially want to consider on a case-by-case basis”.
Haringey Council in London said “additional temporary preventative measures (such as bubbles)” were being put in place in schools with rising cases. And Peterborough City Council wrote to parents this week to remind them that headteachers have the right to “refuse access to school to protect other pupils and staff from possible infection with Covid” if they believe a pupil has symptoms.
Wigan Council’s Director of Public Health has introduced a “suite of measures” after a rise in cases at a local school, including face masks in the classroom and asking siblings of children who test positive to isolate.
Ministers have been urged to “rein in” local public health directors and ensure the children’s education is prioritised.
Molly Kingsley, Co-Founder of the parent campaign group UsForThem, said: “Public health teams appear to be too quick to impose disproportionate restrictions on children’s education and lives again. The Department for Education needs to crack down on councils and schools who are overreaching.
“It is really depressing that we are barely one month into term and we are already seeing these restrictions creep back into schools. This will probably get worse and worse and will make a mockery of the Education Secretary’s plans to keep children in the classroom”.
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With absolute delight. Cambridgeshire schools are brining back the face nappy. And we are well on the way to wave 4 and lockdown again.
There won’t be a shutdown the JRS is gone. Medical segregation is the next big brainwave coming. They are getting not a pennies income tax off me until ALL restrictions are gone.
Local council are all appalling
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The University of Oxford has found that children don’t particularly spread covid, and even if they catch it problems are very very rare — so why are they pushing so much effort onto restricting children?
(See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v1.full.pdf, figure 2A).
“why are they pushing so much effort onto restricting children?” Because they can, and because people believe schools are a major spreader.
Of course like the rest of the lemmings after say,4 years they will have to admit that schools are not super spreaders because they will be presented with the fact that the virus didnt really spread in schools /Like masks stop infection except for the “130,000 who died from covid all through the pandemic .So get vaccinated not once but twice and then a third time with such a relaible vaccine that you still need to wear a mask .I am of average intelligence but even i can see whats wrong here How did so many people become just fucking stupid ,horribly ,patheically,moronically stupid ???
Why don’t you ask them?
An uneducated guess based on publically available information would be that the teaching union leadership is convinced that there’s an avoidable workplace risk to their members which can be avoided by low level torture of pupils.
Just the kind of stuff unions are naturally up to.
I’d characterise it more as the union keeping the subs rolling in from indoctrinators who would rather be doing it over Zoom indefinitely.
I doubt they’re really fussed about catching the coofs – after all, they are loyal NPCs and will have had their doses of Our Vaccines already. Surely they Follow the Science and put their faith in Our Vaccines? [Ritually taps arm twice, intones a Hail Whitty]
Is Lazyfuckingitis a thing or am i just imaging the idea that people can stay home do a bit of work ,have a coffee,order that new cutlery and some shoes (well why not) back to do a bit a of work if you are not reporting IT issues .if you are you might as well get your Vans on and go for a run (take your mobile though).Perhaps by 2o’clock you hear that your laptop is out for the forseeable future ,Thursday or even Friday.,oh gutted !! .Still Working Moms is on Netflix ,(Karla from yoga told her about it).Quick shower and off to pick the kids up and maybe have a go at that banana bread recipe.This of course is not what we used to call work this kind of half arsed effort was principally the world of free lance writers and self employed aerobic instructors married to NHS Band 7 directorate managers but now this is actually a lot of people idea of work .Their own version of the dignity of labor.Why are people working from home !!!!!!! ????????????????????????????????????
yes and membership numbers continue to fall coincidence ? NO!!
To condition them into how they will be expected to live when they are adults.
I am glad my children didn’t have to suffer this.
Yes, this is supposed to be lessons in “new normality”.
Which begs the question of why have we had to suffer the fuckwittery of supervisors,line managers ,foremen,and a host of false pretence posistions if we can all hang around at home unchecked and uncontrolled ???
Because they know people care more about their children than even their own lives, and thus “protecting them” is at all costs. The fact the kids daily face more risks on the school run…never occurs to them. And then there is the money to be made jabbing children we don’t need it, won’t benefit from it, and shouldn’t be getting it.
Because the unions are in charge.
Another crowd of self seving bully boys Nothing changes and lessons are not learned .
Because they are the fertile new generation? They’re the ones they want a grip on. The masks are coercion to take the Pfizer, is all. I am now seeing children I know being Pfizered, and it is very, very upsetting. For air travel reasons.
As Tony Blair said of his foundation “We have our people embedded in governments all around the world”.
I’m sure that includes local government.
Embedded like ticks.
The power-hungry, bio-security Marxists, will never willingly relinquish power. It is time to remove them from all the institutions and positions of authority e.g. Susan Michie of SAGE. Otherwise we may as well live in Communist China or North Korea.
Devon County Council does not surprise me. They cannot run a highways department so certainly schools would be far too advanced for them
I was wondering, earlier in the week, why half the school age population of Sidmouth was wandering around in face masks outside at school chucking out time. The poor brainwashed sheep
Because a member of thr governent has not and will not say hey kids take your masks off even though your mum,dad,nan sister ,aunty,know its over Thst is why .The Emerlad City that was freedom day nevr really became a reality did it
That picture makes me feel ill. As do all pictures of the muzzled. Slaves, all of them.
On a more positive note, despite a claim on FB by one of my more neurotic friends that the theatres “still know there’s a pandemic” and were enforcing nappies, a visit to the National last night was about 40% normal. Perhaps more pressingly for the theatre, only about half the seats were filled. I shan’t be hurrying back.
Once again nobody really made anybody do anything .They all wanted to .. there was no torture or intimidation think on …. stop moaning say no i dont want this its wrong .There are 60 million people in this country you wouldnt need to bother them all
The current situation under the rancid Zahawi is possibly worse for children than the ridiculous bubble system that went before it. Children who were close to those having the dodgy tests, rather than being sent home are imprisoned in isolation rooms, for a period. No mixing, no leaving that room, lunch in isolation etc.
I can only think is there is a general aim of making children more compliant and so easier to teach. What young children are being told regarding Fauci virus I don’t want to imagine.
We are now into the third school year of this insanity and Bunter let’s it go on, he even makes the creepy ex poisons minister the man in charge of schools. Perhaps he is a believer in the Asian model of treating children.
positive dodgy tests sorry missed a word
As I always say, look at Scotland where NONE of the restrictions has been lifted in schools.
The communists in education there have run the national policy, ever since the SNP took power.
All this talk of socialists ,conmmunists,militant unions so whay are we still being governed by a bunch of Tory plutocrats
And Queen Nicola was claiming that the biotyranny couldn’t be lifted because the Scotch “case” rate was still too high – for her own personal, secret definition of “too high”.
But after a brief and inevitable casedemic when the schools went back, with no translation to hospitalisation or deaths, the Scotch “case” rate has plummeted again
Which of course demonstrates that the biotyranny is working, and therefore we need to retain it forever. And add “vaccine passports” too.
The Lügenpresse has given up any pretence of even asking for the conditions under which it all might end. We have always been at war with COVID-1984.
If you read the government’s answers to the questions on Nazi passes raised by the parliamentary committee (it was linked on here by TY a while back – a great read), a 95% vaccine take up was one of the requirements to end their use.
Not only will the unvaccinated be discriminated against, we will also be blamed for the continued use of the Nazi pass.
Too high oh i see !!!
Yes but they are Scotish being governed by a power crazy neurotic wannabee who makes no sense to the rest of the world
The school I’m at feels completely back to normal. Really. There’s is barely a hint of covid; One-way systems are gleefully ignored; Social distancing is a thing of the past. Windows are opened on the basis of how cold or stuffy it is; Masks are only worn by the Languages Dept for purposes of virtue signalling; Assemblies, Parents Evenings etc are back, Kids are happy, annoying, delightful, well-behaved, badly-behaved, pushing, jostling and shouting – all the things kids normally are. Of course the spectre of jabs hangs in the air to those in the know and it’s true that the fear may well be ramped up again later in the Autumn, but as of right now I can report an almost totally normal school.
Make the most of it while it lasts.
This is a brief period of normality, a reminder of how life could be if you just get injected and accept the Nazi pass.
The school my son works at is very close to normal too.
However, he reported this week a very sad tale. Students in Y9 having a science lesson getting very over excited by the fact that they were doing a practical. Doing, not watching. They actually got to put liquids in beakers and stir it!! He said it was funny and sad in equal measure it just shows how much those kids have missed out on in the last 20 months.
The head is very much against having any of this taken away again.
That is tragic and unsurprising. I worry about what has been internalised by this generation of children, I.e crowds of people are unsafe, you shouldn’t get too near to strangers etc. but they are also very resilient and of course I hope they can shrug off this madness.
Well done crisisg, keep trucking. Enjoy the break. Keep with the dissent.
Oh I certainly am! I still believe I’ve got less than a year of the job left before I’m ousted for refusing to be poisoned but right now I’m enjoying the semblance of normality!
This was always going to happen. The government are going to find it difficult to have any more actual lockdowns without re-introducing the furlough scheme (which presumably even they now realise is such an expensive waste of money that they can’t afford it again), so they will use every other petty restriction they can think of to make life thoroughly unpleasant – and no doubt many of these will be done at one remove by local authorities, while the government claim it’s not them behind it but do absolutely nothing to stop it (so we can draw our own conclusions about who is pushing it).
That’s somewhat optimistic. It’s not their money that they’re spunking on paying people to binge on
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Sadly not surprised. I once worked on a project at a local council. The mix of job worths, activists, do gooders and the downright lazy that worked there was enough to make any private sector tax payer weep with despair.
My favourite nonsense moment was when I walked down a corridor and saw the following on an office door – ‘Head of Social Inclusion’. Do you think their job was throwing parties? What an utter waste of money.
Apologies if this has already been posted, but let me introduce you to Emma Keelan, Belfast doctor and lying little cow:
https://citizenjournos.com/2021/10/06/confirmed-the-mater-hospital-was-not-full-of-unvaccinated-20-30-year-olds-on-ventilators-on-the-22nd-july/
She’s moved hospitals but does her new employer know she tells medical lies (and i think on work/taxpayer time)?
if i lied at work and gave false infornation to my employer ,the NHS,i would be disciplined
Masks, are they the biggest rip off of the last 18 months? Over $300b spent on them. And aside from N95, they have done basically nothing to stop infections or save lives. They are the magic amulets of our day. It doesnt matter how many studies show this, how many physics demonstrations that a virus 10-100x smaller than a mask’s pores won’t be stopped…the magical belief remains.
If Boris had spent the vast sums he’s doing for monitors on some good UV lights (which actually do kill C19), we might be doing something wise. But masks? I thought we were past such magical items having sway in society. Guess i didn’t count on panic.
And not just magic amulets – absolutions.
They seem about as useful as the current round of vaccines .Has anybody actually thought this virus isnt so bad is that a thing ??with normal thinking people ??
Home Educate.
Though only possible if one parent earns enough.
Such a shame that officials cannot be fired for thoughtlessly believing utter nonsense that has been shown for decades to be utter nonsense.
Thats utter nonsense surely ??
Maybe they are expecting extremely dangerous variant to arise from the use of Merck’s Molnupiravir (see analysis of method of action and Stage 1/2 results over at Trial Site News). Not yet given an EUA but Fauci needs more terror to scare the lab rats.
This thing is not going to kill us is it get off the fucking toilet and do some work you pissy little lemmings ITS OVER !!! tell everyone you meet
Neil Ferguson hits the TV on Wednesday morning. Cases suddenly jump almost 10,000 in a day. That tool from the Zoe App is doom mongering too. Twenty four hours later we have 40,000 + “cases” (lol) media driving the story that schools being a problem now, after being open two months in Scotland and 6 weeks in England and we inch ever closer to the reverse up the irreversible roadmap. Cue April 2023 and Road Map v 2.0. And around and around and around we go.
and why no fuss about the stunt that Gareth Davies and the Tories pulled in Wales ?
A teachers union that is enjoyng fucking up young lives ,,something wrong there
For the love of God, how many times do they have to do this before they realise it does nothing to stop transmission.
It’s just there keep the poor little sods in line.
Thank God, a university teacher mum of my acquaintance wrote to her kids’ private school to berate them for teaching children to be hysterical (and several other things).
They KNOW that it does nothing at all. That’s what makes the whole thing even more evil. I don’t think it’s to ‘keep them in line’ so much as to condition them for further training.
The Devon Director of Public Health has the following qualifications; BSc, Dip HP, FFPH. So of course we can trust his advice, can’t we? He has just sent out to all schools a warning letter about the dangers of “increasing coronavirus infections”, warning about more masking. His BSc is in Sports Science, which is not one of the most rigorous of science degrees. It’s certainly more scientific than ‘Golf Course Management’, but hardly as tough as, say, a joint honours in Biochemistry/Physiology. Obviously Sports Science doesn’t have sections on epidemiology or virology which would have educated this muppet on the difference between coronavirus being the generic word for a range of viral infections and Covid 19 being the specific condition. Sports Science also doesn’t seem to cover the need for producing evidence before forecasting “increasing … infections”. And of course when he says ‘infections’ he means ‘positive test results’. So, how does a scientifically illiterate person get a job which pays him an annual salary of just under £105,000 along with, I’m sure, a gold plated, index linked pension; all funded by us poor saps of taxpayers? Perhaps this is explained by his Dip HP qualification? Dr. Google suggests this… Read more »
Anyone who has had a cold will ‘test positive’ because it’s all part and parcel of being human. A cold is a second or third cousin to ‘flu and all ‘flu is of the Caronavirus family. ‘Our’ government is a catspaw for the Gates/Soros/NWO outfit that wants to control every last aspect of our lives. They have created this scamdemic to further their purpose and the sheep, that believe what politicians tell them, have become a new cult, Branch Covidians, who now take their KoolAid in vaccine form.
If you haven’t seen this, you should take a look.
How can an obvious mask fetishist and child hater like this headteacher be in the job? Seriously Sick Fuxx! My heart goes out to the mother and child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku0uc8jW2wY
Why should Yougov Zahawi care? No doubt HIS three children are either too old to be affected or else they go to a private school where ”choice” is allowed. (I don’t know that – but I somehow can’t imagine he (or many of his fellow ministers) would allow offspring to mix with the riffraff.)