To not allow my child on school trip due to coronavirus

[SunnyMiami]

Hi all

My 6 yr old child is due to go on a school trip next week to Manchester City Centre. Part of their trip will be going on a sight seeing bus and visiting the library.

As Manchester has the second largest Chinese community in the U.K and with the Chinese New Year having just passed, it is to be expected the city has had a lot of families/tourists from China visiting the city, used the buses etc.

AIBU to be concerned about letting my child on this trip and to think the school is taking an unnecessary risk considering what’s currently happening?

Would you let your child go on this trip?

Tia.

Yep , well actually it's 2 weeks now but I was pleading not to have to go and told not to be so ridiculous. Look now- was I actually ridiculous

Quite honestly it sounds a boring trip anyway; if people live near Manchester they can take their kids there to see whatever there is to see, doesn't have to be a school trip.

From London, maybe - Granada Studios for example (where my then schoolboy son got plastered on Newton & Ridleys in the Rovers but that's another story).

The op was right anyway and I'm sure wasn't the only parent to be cautious.