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Coronavirus: Teachers 'scared' over plan to reopen schools
May 21, 2020
A teacher who has worked in the classroom during lockdown has said reopening schools on 1 June will "cause suffering and death".
The primary school staff member, who taught a small class of key workers' children, said social distancing the group of nine was "impossible".
In a letter to her local MP, she says teachers are "scared" and confused by the government's plans.
Downing Street said it was taking all concerns "very seriously".
Under the plans, children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 in England would only be able to return next month if infection rates and other tests at the time allowed it, the government said.
Teaching union NASUWT said it remained unconvinced reopening schools was "appropriate or practicable".
'Can't see how it will work'
The teacher who wrote to York Outer Conservative MP Julian Sturdy accused the government of putting lives at risk.
"Not one teacher I know is saying they won't work but they are saying they're scared, they're confused and they cannot see how your plan is going to work," she said.
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The mother-of-two, who asked not to be named, said she found it "impossible" to keep any distance from the nine children of key workers she was teaching.
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