The reason for a significant number of people leaving the Australian Education Union is because it failed to take wage a strong campaign for workload relief and fair salaries, argues Mary Merkenich.
Australia: Melbourne schools to reopen amid COVID-19 lockdown, threatening teacher, student safety
In a reckless move that needlessly threatens the safety of teachers, school workers and students, the Victorian state Labor government announced Wednesday that Melbourne high schools will reopen for Year 11 and 12 students from next week.
This follows a week-long closure of most schools that was imposed as part of an initially planned seven-day lockdown triggered by community transmission of the dangerous COVID-19 Kappa variant. Today authorities reported they had detected the even more contagious Delta variant. The lockdown has been extended for another seven days, but with a series of relaxed restrictions, including the reopening of schools for senior students in Melbourne and the resumption of all schools face-to-face teaching in regional Victoria.
School closes over Covid case Victoria posted five new local infections on Sunday, bringing the state’s active virus case count to 49. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling
News by Anthony Piovesan 31st May 2021 8:30 AM | Updated: 8:53 AM
A primary school in Melbourne’s outer northern suburbs has been closed after it was linked to the state’s Covid-19 outbreak.
Willmott Park Primary School notified staff and parents on Monday morning it had been closed for deep cleaning due to a coronavirus case.
The Craigieburn school is yet to be officially listed as an exposure site on the Department of Health’s website.
On Sunday, Arcare Maidstone was locked down and residents were placed into self-isolation after a staff member at the facility, a woman in her 50s, tested positive for the virus.
The Altona woman, one of five local cases reported on Sunday, tested positive despite receiving her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on 12 May.
It is possible she was infectious during shifts on Wednesday and Thursday.
Contact tracers are yet to uncover how the worker caught the virus, making her a mystery case .
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Only a third of Arcare Maidstone s 110 staff and 53 of 76 residents have been vaccinated so far, and the federal government has brought forward scheduled vaccinations to Monday.