Any 'keyworkers' not sending their children to school on Monday?

[Lottiethelemming]

DP and I are working from home.

We put the kids on the list last time just in case.

We're stressed about trying to homeschooling around working full-time with 2 very active young children.

More importantly, we don't want to put the school staff under any more pressure/risk than they are already.

I'm going to have to speak to my manager about shifting things around a bit which shouldn't be a problem but it's still going to be difficult.

Are there any other 'keyworkers' who are in a similar position? Is it expected that you will still send your children to school just because you can?

I'm classed as a key worker but I'm back office, I have been WFH since March. On the DfE's wide criteria DS would be eligible for a place. School didn't apply tighter criteria last time. We are in tier 4, outside the contingency area but school is already closed (staff absence/s44). I suspect my employer would expect me to take a key worker placd if offered. I won't be taking it. We managed for 3 months last time (DS went back in June) by working strange hours around childcare, though it was relentless and nearly broke us all. This time we will have help from DM - wouldn't put her at risk if we had been mixing, shopping etc over the hols but we haven't. I am prioritising DH's health over DS's social interaction for a few weeks or months. DS will suffer from the lack of playmates but that's the lesser weevil - he would suffer more from a cycle of in/out periods of self-isolation on symptom watch, and if DH or I became ill or worse because he brought the virus home from school.

So its day 3 and I'm struggling. I wake up, scrub my armpits and login ready for meeting number 1. Wake up the kids, throw breakfast in their direction and get on with meeting number 2,3 and 4, back to back. 6 year old is fussy so I'm spoonfeeding him off screen. DS1 gets on with his maths in the meantime. By the time DS2 has finished breakfast it's lunchtime so I have to put my Bluetooth headphones on whilst I sort the kids out. And so on until 5pm with their dinner thrown in at some point. They're already behind from Monday and today was just awful with DS2 taking forever to eat his meals. Throw in lots of 'QUIET! and SHHHH!' I'm already over it. Its not fair on them or me. I stilk wont send them to school. I just need to know I'm not on my own!
They've had no active time because I've spent my break catching up with work from earlier on.
I'm working from the office for one day in about 3 weeks. I almost feel like it's going to be a day of annual leave!