'This government doesn't give a flying f*ck about you, your children, your elders or your vulnerable'
back to school in a tweet calling out the government for easing lockdown too soon. Today, primary schools opened for children in reception, Years 1 and 6 for the first time in 10 weeks. The tweet sparked a mixture of fury, agreeance and confusion from parents across the country.
This is according to primary school leaders and amounts to 47% of families, with the proportion rising to 50% among pupils eligible for free school meals. However, that of course means more than half of parents will send their children back to school, symbolising the growing tension around parenting in lockdown.
Just last week, government advisors voiced their concerns over the government easing of lockdown rules. ‘We cannot relax our guard by very much at all,’ John Edmunds, a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - who attends meetings of Sage, the scientific advisory group on emergencies – told The Guardian.
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