An almighty row has blown up over whether children should return to school on June 1.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has called on teachers to do their duty and says the risk of transmission of Covid-19 is no more than any other profession.
However, teachers union say classrooms could become centres of transmission.
Here Mayflower Primary School’s head teacher Liz Bartholomew calls for support from the nation.
STOP blaming teachers, stop shaming teachers, stop trying to make us feel guilty.
We just want our pupils, staff and their families to be safe.
We are not asking for much, we are not letting the country down, we are simply asking for proof that pupils and staff will be safe.
We want our straight forward questions answered.
I am sick and tired of hearing my profession devalued, criticised and vilified on national news and now by the Government.
We are doing our bit for the country; I have been teaching for 26 years, seven of them as a head teacher, and nothing has come close to the pressure we have been under, to the hours we have been working, to the strain we have been under as as with this international crisis, Covid-19.
We have not been at home doing nothing, this has not been an extended holiday.
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