Civil disobedience: would parents be irresponsible to send their children back to school now?
Closed: schools in England should stay that way because the Tory government cannot guarantee that they are safe – and parents will be legally responsible if their children catch Covid-19 while following the government’s demand that they attend.
If English parents send their children back to school on Monday (June 1), they will carry responsibility if their child catches Covid-19 as a result.
It seems the Tory government isn’t telling anybody about that part of the law on parental responsibility.
This Writer is grateful to one such parent, who writes:
You have a legal obligation to not send your child anywhere you believe to be unsafe.
If you suspect your child is going to be harmed and you send them anyway and they get harmed, you are legally liable.
You cannot be made non-liable either, not while you have parental responsibility and they can’t penalise you for fulfilling a legal obligation.
So the law seems clear, in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic:
There is no guarantee that children will be safe from catching this potentially deadly disease at school.
If they catch it, then it doesn’t matter whether they show symptoms or not – they will still be vulnerable to the variant of Kawasaki disease that has proved fatal in several cases both in the UK and around the world.
Parents have a responsibility to keep children away from places where they may be endangered – and these places currently include schools.
If the child catches Covid-19, or contracts the Kawasaki variant, at school then the parent will be legally responsible for it – not the Tory government that demanded that the child must go back to school.
So the law tells us that parents must keep their children away from school, no matter what the government says.
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In Kent, white children & their parents won’t get punished. But, blacks & Asians get harassed, shouted at & bullied in Co-op supermarkets(e.g.for even slight breaches of “social distancing” rules).
Also, doesn’t Health & Safety legislation prevent schools from opening or prevent children from being in school if there is a risk to them? For example, if there was chemical leak at a nearby factory, and the gas cloud threatened to pass over the school, wouldn’t the school have a responsibility to close?
Thus by extension, if people at a school are at risk of getting an ilness, is the school obliged by H&S legislation to close?