Teachers are divided on the merits of returning to school but hope a month of remote learning will trigger a shift towards more online teaching in Victoria.
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"" There will be a whole range of protocols so we don’t have adults mingling, we don’t have parents mingling. There will be staggered drop-offs, there will be staggered breaks for play, for lunch," Mr Andrews said.
Teachers and staff will socially distance and there will be increased cleaning, with an extra $45 million in funding."
This has to be one of the most out of touch things I've read during this period.
Staggering lunchbreaks is essentially impossible without constructing a new timetable. By the way, constructing a timetable that caters for thousands of students and hundreds of teachers, all of whom have unique combinations of classes is a massive undertaking that usually takes the best part of a term to do. It is logistically impossible to do.
Also it is pretty hilarious to say we will be social distancing. Unless someone's come up with a way of accessing extra dimensions, we will not be social distancing.
Over the last few years, I've taught classes in storage rooms, had to teach science in the library (sometimes while sharing the space with another class), while others have taught classes in the canteen.
Only last year, we had to split a classroom in two to create enough room for a staff room, where 5 people sit in about 8 or 9 square metres.
My staff room is about the size of your average living room and has 6 teachers in it. The only way we're social distancing is if we sit on the roof. And no matter what we do, we will be crammed up close and personal with students.
I understand arguments for getting schools back open. But don't *smile* us about what's going to happen.
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