Even if schools reopen fully in Sept (which I think they will personally) there will still be some form of online/at home learning for when kids are sick and quarantined for 14 days. There's still a pandemic, the 'isolate.test.track' advice hasn't changed. So ..get used to it!

If your kid is sick they'll be refused entry to school either for 14 days or until they get a Covid negative result. And this will happen many times over the winter. They'll be at home a LOT! Everyone will have to prepare for that.

And that includes the Department of Ed with their paltry few hundred euro grants for IT. They're going to have to come up with a standard online learning tool to roll out to all schools. And schools are going to have to improve their online learning too.

If you think that it's a case of getting kids back to school in September and that's it, you're delusional. Prepare now. Talk to your boss now. It's a fucking DISASTER for parents, but there will be zero tolerance of sick kids. Accept that now.

Remember what we were told at the start of this. 'Assume you have the virus and act accordingly'. This will be how we have to operate going forward. Every cough/cold/temp we will have to assume it's Covid and act accordingly and that means at home, a lot.

Disclaimer, obvs. My husband is a teacher, our son goes to his school. Both are chronic asthmatics, both will be going in on the first day. My husband worked every day of the pandemic since March and is ready and waiting to go back in September.