Sky News host Chris Kenny says some state governments have “negotiated outcomes” with teachers’ unions and are actively “discouraging students from attending” schools.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had doubled down on his desire for students to return to schools as soon as possible, insisting the health advice is clear - it is safe for children. But as schools across the nation slowly begin to reconvene for term two, many of the states have ordered children to learn from home unless they are unable to. “Perhaps no area of the coronavirus response has caused as much consternation and debate as education,” Mr Kenny said.
Mr Kenny said, from the outset of the coronavirus pandemic he has, “been dismayed about how state governments have managed the schooling situation”. “All the way along the medical advice has been constant, the chief medical officer and other experts have said the best place for kids is at school”. “But many parents have wanted to keep their kids away, and teachers’ unions and state governments, especially in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, have been keen to keep students away”.
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