{"id":31476,"date":"2020-05-06T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=31476"},"modified":"2020-05-06T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:00:24","slug":"consider-postpone-opening-of-classes-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/consider-postpone-opening-of-classes-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Reconsider postponing opening of classes&quot;, teachers call upon UK government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Teachers from the UK and Ireland are asking the government to postpone the opening of classes until its risk-free.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Opening of classes in the UK not yet ideal<\/h2>\n<p>A group of British teachers has called the attention of the UK&#8217;s education minister on the proposal of opening classes sooner as expected. A group of teacher&#8217;s union believes that it is still too risky to allow students back into physical classes.<br \/>\nThe group of teacher&#8217;s union, backed by the National Education Union (NEU) and the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers, calls upon Education Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2020\/may\/03\/primary-schools-england-could-reopen-june-boris-johnson-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gavin Williamson<\/a> through a formal letter, saying that a postponement on the opening of classes until the virus has been cleared out should be considered.<br \/>\nThe cohort cited factors that make it riskier for children to go back to school at this early of a time frame.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of proper protocol and facility to conduct social distancing if all students go back to physical classes.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of personal protective equipment for both teachers and students while at school, it proves to be costly at the end of the department if they provide such equipment regularly.<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring of proper hygiene, especially on younger students, which are more interactive and playful at school<\/li>\n<li>Lack of staff willing to report earlier amid the COVID-19 outbreak still in effect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>No need to rush reopening of schools<\/h2>\n<p>Spokesperson and secretary of NEU, Kevin Courtney, cited that it is too early for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/uk-education-sector-hit-by-locdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school reopening<\/a>, considering the current situation of the country with regards to the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Positive cases are still high, death cases are still ongoing daily, it shows the risk the people are exposed to at this time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Health Ministry&#8217;s opinion on this matter should be significantly weighed since they are the ones more knowledgeable in the extent of transmission has in the country as of now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Safety must be the top priority, efforts of staying at home by the public if the Education Ministry pushes the early reopening of classes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers from the UK and Ireland are asking the government to postpone the opening of classes until its risk-free. Opening of classes in the UK not yet ideal A group of British teachers has called the attention of the UK&#8217;s education minister on the proposal of opening classes sooner as expected. A group of teacher&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":31478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}