Is there any reason why children should not repeat a school year?

I didn’t take it as boasting.

Teachers need to be treated as key workers and the wherewithal found to vaccinate them with other key workers. Schools do seem to be hotbeds of transmission, so all that can be done to minimise that, must be done.
We need our children back to school as soon as that can be as safely as possibly achieved. Parents, usually mothers are juggling wfh with home educating. The young parents I know well, are mostly educated to degree level and tech savvy. None of them are finding home schooling, negotiating the school sessions straightforward.
Also, the children are bored, isolated from friends and in many cases grandparents. Many children mixed with no one for ten days in the Christmas holidays. Their return to school for one day ruled out so many grandparents As child care because of the possible spread of the virus.
They do not need to repeat a year. As has been said, many other European countries don’t have formal education as early as we do. My experience of refugee children is their capacity to learn English and achieve in school is huge.
GCSE and a levels can’t take place this year. Trust the teachers

Iam64 I agree. Teachers need to be vaccinated soon so that the schools can re-open. In my daughter's college 2 teachers have died of Covid.
My D and many other teachers want to get back to teaching in the classroom but it will not be safe until they have been vaccinated.

No way should teachers be put in danger. They need to speak out loudly and get their unions involved. Do the kids wear masks in school ? They certainly should until the vaccine has been rolled out.

Agree nanna8, and nobody should accuse them of ‘getting the unions involved’. As though that’s tantamount to revolution.
Oldham has seen a 50% increase in serious injuries to children in lockdown. One of our local schools brought ten primary age children into care in two months. These are distressing figures that involve real small children. Schools, family centres and social workers may have been able to prevent some of this. Pre austerity and of course, covid

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Iam64 I agree. Teachers need to be vaccinated soon so that the schools can re-open. In my daughter's college 2 teachers have died of Covid.
My D and many other teachers want to get back to teaching in the classroom but it will not be safe until they have been vaccinated.

Safe for whom? It won't be safe for the families of the pupils, even after teachers are vaccinated. pupils are vectors of transmission to people outside the school buildings. Community transmission needs to come down before it's safe to open schools. If only it were as simple as vaccinating teachers, but it's not.