U turn if you want to....the government has just - again!

Sorry forgot to add that I think I would have opted for the visor as you can been seen and presumably heard. I see no reason why teachers shouldn’t choose that option.

Callistemon. It may be weak but why not give it a go ? However I definitely think teachers need some kind of protection.

Lucca my daughter wore a visor for enrolment but not allowed while teaching.

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Lucca my daughter wore a visor for enrolment but not allowed while teaching.

You see I think that’s dreadful. how can they justify that? What possible harm can a visor do ? It’s not obscuring the face, you can hear fine through it.

Lucca there will be yet another U turn when people start getting ill.

I do not see how schools and colleges could possibly ban anybody from wearing a mask, given the latest U-turn.

Visors protect the wearer's eyes in particular, but don't prevent the spread of infection. Wearers are recommended to wear a mask as well.

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Lucca there will be yet another U turn when people start getting ill.

Johnson is too weak to stand up to his own backbenchers, some of whom think it's wimpy to wear a mask. He has to frame everything as responding to public pressure.

After weeks of headteachers' asking for a Plan B, the government finally announced one at 7.30pm yesterday (Friday) just before a bank holiday with schools due to return next week.

A single case of Covid-19 would probably mean that a whole year group in a secondary school (up to 300 pupils) would be sent home and would need to self-isolate for two weeks. It's still unclear what the staff who have come in contact with infected pupils are supposed to do.

This U-turn was expected because the government has been encouraging the development of online learning courses, so why couldn't it have been announced earlier?

At least they have stated a 4 stage action plan and dropped the silly idea that if one case of virus was found the whole year would go home.

There is going to be illness in schools like every year, they can now manage it realistically. I don’t envy the teachers having to supervise health protection as well as education.

No, they haven't dropped that idea. Why did you think that? Stage 2 of the action plan states that everybody who has been in contact with the infected pupil must be sent home. The way secondary school options and sets work, it could be that a pupil has been in contact with the whole year group. Whole year groups will be organised with the year group itself as the "bubble".

One comprehensive in Cheshire, well ahead of the game, announced in July that face coverings would be compulsory in the new term.
In the school's newsletter, parents were informed of new measures being introduced as well as information on the navy blue, reusable face masks, which form part of the school uniform at £3 each

Annodomini, good for them !