Are you taking your children out of school next week?

[RosieLemonade]

I’m a teacher so I have to keep going but I’m tempted to pull DD out of nursery so even if my bubble pops she can still do Christmas activities with her dad and the family members in our Christmas bubble. Just wondering what other people are thinking.

Dh and I are both teachers so no but, and I know anecdotes are not data etc etc but from a very unscientific sample of my classes and DH’s classes on Friday, attendance had tanked and I’m expecting it to be low for the whole of the last week.

No.

Yes. I'm going to keep them home from the 18th - they should be in until the 23rd.

At least then we've got six days clear before seeing family on Christmas Eve.

I'd love to as the secondary is absolutely infested with it but one is doing mocks, the other is miserable if he doesn't go in and the third is at primary and touch wood, the rate seems lower there. If the eldest wasn't doing mocks, I'd pull them all out. If one goes, doesn't seem much point the other 2 staying at home. We have one of the highest infection rates in the country.

Nope not even considered it

God no, they have been isolating as I caught COVID & they are both due back on Monday. The isolation period has thankfully been cut, they would have been due back on Thursday otherwise- would still have sent them back as it's important for them to be in school.

Yes, for Y8 child. There are so many teachers off that half his lessons are cover or supply. 3 cases in his year group last week, and the sudden drop from 14 to 10 days isolation doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence either.

Ironically I’m a teacher, but as PHE assume that teachers are always at least 2m away I’m much less likely to be told to isolate. Woolly jumpers and wide open windows it is.

No. One of my DD’s has just had 2 weeks out of school as her teacher tested positive so it’s important she’s there as much as she possibly can be.

DS age 9 had his bubble burst for 2nd time in less than a month so he's home till 19th now anyway. Wish dd14 would stay home too but she's got tests thrown at her for next week. Her birthdays the 19th so I hope it goes ok.

^yes, my eldest children are having supply teachers all the time. It's not really the 'normal' level of teaching situation you'd expect in our secondary.

But if your child has to self isolate for 10 days, that means they can't go anywhere or meet anyone.

We are in Tier 3, we can't go anywhere anyway. We are DBro's support bubble because he lives alone, the rest of our family are in Scotland in an area that has had no cases for months, we were told by them we weren't welcome (Mum has always been a bit anxious about stuff, Covid hasn't helped, she's still isolating her mail!).

No but then we are not bubbling over Christmas as it’s not safe for DH. We have to take DD out of school in January if the number of cases increase due to Christmas socialising.

Our secondary schools move to online from Monday (Wales) and our primary all big encouraged us to keep the younger ones home, which is what we will be doing.

No. Ds will stay in school, and so will I (I’m a teacher). We’re not seeing my parents over Christmas anyway as it’s too risky.

Same as you, teacher (we are ok though as even if 20 kids we teach have covid we are fine so no need to isolate) and will take my kids out of nursery this week.

In my class, a parent emailed and told the school that someone in the household had covid. Their phones were off when the office tried ringing. Now I have no issues with people taking their children out of school at the moment. Unfortunately for the family their six year old has spent the week telling everyone he is going to Turkey. I wasn't happy, we have a lot of vulnerable families who are worried about catching covid, at least say it isn't the children who have fake covid! Then there's no risk of ruining everyone else's Christmas in the bubble.

yes, I'm keeping my yr6 and yr 10 children at home. I do not want to be isolating over Christmas! We still have 14 days isolation and DH is a teacher so need to minimise our exposure as far as possible.

Neither DS has had a case in their year group and not at all in DS2's school, but I'm still not risking it

I don't understand, what's happening next week?

No, because I have to work and get all of Christmas sorted and try and salvage enough of my mental health to get through Christmas, and we aren’t going to see anyone anyway as we are in tier 3 and don’t have a Christmas bubble.

Absolutely not. DS’s year 1 class didn’t go back in the summer when some could, so he’s missed plenty already this year.
I’m practically holding my breath that we have no cases next week.

As long as my dc are allowed to be in school, that's where they'll be.

All moved over to online learning here for high school in wales
So my two will be at home whilst DH and I both have to go out to work

I'd say it depends on cases in your area and the actual risk of the bubble popping. I'm in a tier 3 and it's rife. I decided to pull my boys from school and preschool on Thursday evening. The primary ended up closing Friday evening anyway and we were already put into isolation by that point. So I made the right choice by pulling them but then it turned out I didn't need to anyway.

No, but mostly because this Christmas we have chosen not to go anywhere or visit anyone. I think we could well be going up to teir 3 by Christmas anyway so even more reason to avoid mixing.

I do understand your reasoning though. DD was off school for the 4 days before October half term. Bubbles were popping all over the place at her school and we had a UK holiday cottage booked for half term. I was getting very stressed about the risk of her needing to isolate just before we went away or potentially being told to when we were 300 miles away from home in the middle of nowhere.

Keeping my kids off 21st and 22nd. Couldn't manage to keep them off all next week, but feel 21/22nd is really late to be in.