England’s biggest teaching union reckons about 35 local councils are advising their schools to hold off on reopening
, in the speech in which he began to lift the lockdown, Boris Johnson said he hoped schools would welcome back pupils at the start of June. The announcement was heavily caveated. Getting older children in before the summer break was an “ambition”. Primary schools would reopen with only three year groups. “I must stress again that all of this is conditional, it all depends on a series of big ifs,” the prime minister warned.
This nervousness is partly because reopening schools is inherently tricky. Modelling from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, which informs the government’s view it is safe, is sensitive to assumptions about how much children spread the virus, which is still uncertain. Although there is little doubt that keeping classrooms empty will cut the amount children learn and their parents’ productivity, the extent to which this is the case is hard to guess.
Yet lots of this is true across Europe, too, where the reopening of schools has proved less difficult. Some English teachers’ unions have been notably recalcitrant, perhaps because they know English people are nervous of ending the lockdown, and they therefore think this is a battle they can win. And the government messed up its negotiations: it annoyed the unions unnecessarily by going against their views on which years should return to school first, and by springing the approach on them.
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