Rushing Back to School?

I have always had an almost evangelical belief in the necessity of education and happily support the view that it is especially important for children from less advantaged backgrounds. Having said that, I must admit to getting more and more concerned about the UK government's current insistence that all English schools (the ones over which they have direct control) will be back to 'normal' by September 2020. Their main claimed rationale for this, is that children are generally less likely to contract a serious infection from Covid-19 than are adults. Consequently, they argue, the 2 metre social distancing 'rule' can be relaxed (or even dispensed with all together) and there will be no need to limit class sizes to 15 strong 'pods' (so they can go back up to 30). There are several potential flaws in their thinking. These include a) although children are generally less endangered by Covid-19, this does not seem true of all young adults; b) pupils will be mixing with adult staff and support workers in school and c) most children and their adult staff in schools, will be returning to their families at the end of the school day. Although it may be true that not many children will be seriously endangered by infection, schools could become major focal points for transmission of the virus (unless very stringent safeguards are put into place and strongly enforced). It is likely to be very difficult to trace contacts in such settings (has any thought even been given to this?). What does the government propose to do about schools if 2nd or 3rd waves of infection occur in specific localities? Surely there must be planning for local re-closures, hopefully with improved ideas on how to minimise their effects on the educational process as well as the mental and physical healths of the children. Getting the children back to school currently seems to be more a mantra rather than a well-thought out strategy.