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UK: teachers unions call to not reopen schools amidst growing pandemic

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A representative of the National Education Union (NEU) says that the government's decision to reopen most of the primary schools in England on January 4 is a mistake as schools are "unsafe for kids and unsafe for education workers". Various unions have told their members to not physically return to classrooms for at least two weeks.

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