'We have to protect the whole of society': teachers on masks in schools'We have to protect the whole of society': teachers on masks in schoolsFollowing the government’s latest U-turn, teachers and pupils in England will no longer be advised against wearing face coverings in secondary schools. “Lots of people have said that they don’t want to traumatise the children by making everyone wear masks, but I think the school has a responsibility to educate children, both on handling the masks properly and on the pandemic. Now going back to school, I worry I can’t, and I don’t think these sorts of things are taken into account,” Ellis said. Personally, I don’t feel very safe going to back to work”. “Although the information is that most children don’t get particularly ill with [coronavirus], some do, and I also think we have to protect the whole of society, not just ourselves,” she said.

Source: The Guardian August 26, 2020 16:48 UTC