'Another stinging insult': teachers are being used as martyrs in COVID-19 agenda
'Another stinging insult': teachers are being used as martyrs in COVID-19 agenda By Steven Kolber Community contribution / March 20, 2020 Teachers are being used as martyrs to social cohesion and economic ‘business-as-usual’ antics when the reality is anything but. Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a COVID-19 press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. We are exposed to unreasonable Occupational Health and Safety risks within schools that are struggling to maintain the most basic elements of good hygiene practices for students, and where social distancing is a darkly comedic impossibility. Each new guideline and piece of advice is another stinging insult and a fresh challenge to common sense. As a proud professional group, we feel unseen, un-noted and unmentioned by the Government and the media. The general consensus sees all other industries bar the health profession moving rapidly towards alternative working arrangements. W...