Certain schools across the country have been ordered to reopen for term 2 or risk losing billions in government funding.
In the nation’s capital, public schools have gone a step further, announcing they will not even guarantee care for nurses, doctors and police at children’s own schools but will instead leave open a handful of schools that will operate as “hubs” to supervise kids doing the same online learning they would otherwise work on at home.
This is despite the Prime Minister’s repeated insistence that while schools would not close their doors to workers that needed care even if they switch to online learning.and not just frontline health workers. In a letter to the Independent Schools Council of Australia sent on Thursday afternoon, Mr Tehan has reminded a handful of schools that are refusing to offer any face-to-face supervision for kids that they must do so for frontline health workers.
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