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Dept of Education Plans For Return To Schools Without Social Distancing

Laura Donnelly
Laura Donnelly

04:14 12 Jun 2020


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Primary school students may only return to school one day a week if the 2 metre social distancing rules are kept in place.

It would also mean students in secondary could only attend school twice a week.

If it was reduced to one metre primary school students could go to class 50 percent of the time while some secondary schools could return almost at a full-time basis.

Education Minister, Joe McHugh, says the figures show the need for all children to return to the classroom full-time, which may come at the expense of social distancing:

"If we just bring back 20 or 50 per cent of our students in September we could potentially do more damage because of the education neglect and the potential regression."


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