The government has got it wrong again – reopening schools is not as simple as it seems
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The idea of both children and adults being safe are empty words from a government that so frequently spoke about providing a “safety net” that crushed the dreams of thousands of students in the A-level fiasco, that threw a "protective ring" around care homes and then, quite literally, threw them to the wolves through employing orders of “Do Not Resuscitate” at the height of the pandemic. After blaming everybody from care homes and Bame people to nurses, the government is subtly crafting a separate story where teachers must not “drop their guard” in their coffee breaks, where a “well controlled school environment.should be relatively safe”, where the idea of pubs closing as a trade-off for schools opening has now faded into the background. The lack of communication is again staggering: there is the complete absence of a contingency plan for 2021 exams for students who have lost months of learning, no mention of how schools should respond to an inevitable outbreak, reinforcing their strategy of “ignorance is bliss”. It is no secret that the government's paradoxical policies are economically driven; they will invest in polished marketing campaigns, find a “magic money tree” and propel the “eat out to help out" scheme.
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