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Premier Peter Malinauskas says he has made it “crystal clear” to the Education Department that he rejects a teachers’ union call for term one to end early due to pandemic fatigue, as a COVID management committee today examines close contact rules.
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The Education Department has called up most of its relief teachers and is struggling to plug gaps in country schools as the number of COVID cases and close contacts rise, with the education union calling for an early end to term one.
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South Australian teachers on leave have been asked to consider cancelling their holidays to fill emergency relief teaching positions, despite the Education Minister saying only about 15 per cent of dedicated relief teachers are currently working.
One day out from the start of the school year, the Education Department is yet to figure out what arrangements will be put in place to keep teachers who have chronic illnesses or are pregnant safe from the spread of COVID-19, the SA teachers’ union says.
The SA Education Department has come under fire for claiming that air purifiers do not reduce the amount of CO2 in classrooms or improve air quality as reasons for not rolling them out as a school COVID safety measure, before changing its mind and buying thousands of the machines.
The head of the Education Department has issued a plea to the SA teachers’ union to call off a threatened strike when school returns next Wednesday, saying it would be “divisive in staffrooms” and had already caused “community criticism of educators”.
The majority of South Australian teachers want the State Government to push back the start of the school year by two weeks, their union says, amid concerns about Reception and Year 7 students potentially starting primary and secondary schools for the first time online.
