Eton Closure (3)
Eton won't be sending pupils home to crackhead parents. Real life is not as simple as voting for someone who will give you what the rich have.
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ChesneyChrist: Eton won't be sending pupils home to crackhead parents. Real life is not as simple as voting for someone who will give you what the rich have.
In this case, it is a privileged institution that is in question, dear Rumple, it seems strange for an old working-class commie like yourself standing up for a multiclass society in which people live wealthy and privileged lives, while others are treated as surfs, that is only a slight exaggeration,I would ask another question, where did the government get vast amounts of money to furlough people when we have been living in austerity for years??
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Sarah Turnnidge
HuffPost UKWed, 16 December 2020, 1:12 pm GMT
A growing backlash has emerged over the government’s threats of legal action against councils that close schools early for Christmas – not least because elite private institution Eton has already shut.
The prestigious school, which was attended by Boris Johnson, closed to pupils on December 11, with headmaster Simon Henderson writing to parents to say: “We want to avoid a situation where potentially a very large number of close contacts of positive cases have to self-isolate for 14 days over the Christmas period.”
Henderson said a number of positive cases of Covid-19 had been identified in the school, adding: “The health and wellbeing of the school community is my top priority.” A look at the school’s calendar reveals that almost all planned events have been cancelled until December 17, the date Eton’s term was supposed to end.
But with some state schools in Covid-hotspots forced to stay open despite huge outbreaks of the virus, the government has been accused of double-standards – with no indication that Eton will face any repercussions.
Labour MP Zarah Sultana wrote: “While the Tories force state schools to stay open even where councils say it is unsafe, Eton has closed due to an outbreak at the school.
“The lives of the working class matter just as much as the lives of the super-rich.
“We need a government that recognises that fact.”
Eton is where most of the government were educated.
It looks like one rule for them another from us.