Poll on if you would send your (primary) aged dc back to school on 11/5

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Would you be happy to send your primary aged dc back to school on 11th May?

Yes - YABU
No - YANBU

Children are less at risk but what about the poor staff? Anyway lockdown has been extended for 3 weeks and it was hinted it will be longer so a non issue.
To a poster who said since when was sending your children to school a choice, well yes it is. No one has to send their children to school as long as they are being educated. I really don't think schools are going to fine parents for keeping children off if they don't feel safe.

My ds has ASD and ADHD this lockdown is destroying him he needs his routine and neither he nor I am in an at risk group

Does he have an EHCP? If he does then speak to your school. He is entitled to go in.

Looking at other countries social distancing will need to be in place and I wouldn't want to subject younger children to that on a daily basis. Secondary schools could simply not do social distancing and therefore wouldn't go back anyway.

There will be no social distancing in any school when they fully open. It's just not physically possible no matter how much people might want to think it is.

Yes, because if schools go back then I will be required back at work, so I’ll have to send my children in.

Does he have an EHCP? If he does then speak to your school. He is entitled to go in.
My DS has an EHCP and DH is a key worker. DS small specialist school says "no automatic places for those with EHCPs, no places for key worker children who are WFH, no transport, he can have a place but only on the grounds of him being vulnerable and adopted".
Not surprisingly there are hardly any other DCs going in and one of the big leaps he's made at this school is starting to socialise and he's shut down and won't talk to family or his teacher on the phone since he's been at home.
We rang the SEN department at the LEA and asked if there was a hub option or if DS could go to DD mainstream school (he used to go there) and they had no clue and didn't know what a hub is.

Mine are there anyway as I'm a keyworker. They are missing friends and routine. Hell yes.

Yes but because daughter has ASD. She has been at home since lockdown began and the loss of her routine is affecting her health and she is starting to display increased anxiety which usually leads to self harm behaviour. Hoping she can hold out until then but we are lucky as the school head has kept phone contact with all parents to check in on all the kids

No

Absolutely not

Yes my child’s education is suffering

I will send them back when the schools reopen, whenever that is.

Yes. DD2 is year 6 & this is the end of primary school for us. Tiny school in the countryside, so could be done well.

Yes, it’s the lowest point of transmission.

Definitely not. I am classed as a vulnerable person and he is quite happy home learning.

No. I think the start of May is too early. Maybe September is too far away but I'm quite enjoying having my children home with me. It all feels safer. I feel privileged that I have the choice. I know so many key workers have to send their children to school through this

No.
Have been told peak here not likely to be at least until mid May anyway, if that's the case dc will definitely not be going back.
Very much doubt lock down will be lifted by then anyway.

If the schools reopen then I will send them back. I do think early June is more likely.

What I will say is that I don’t think September will be any safer. We will have to come out of lockdown when the virus is still around.

None of us n our family are vulnerable. Our school has a high number of young female teachers, we had full staff right up until the last day before they shut they schools as non were isolating or vulnerable . I know this is unusual but we all need to judge our own situation.

Anecdotal but about 10 families here have had it locally so kids at the school too. None of the kids were more ill than a mild headache and lethargy for a day or two. Most weren’t affected when the parents were.

We can still shield the vulnerable.

I am an older parent in 50s have type 2 diabetes , not sending my children back to school in June ,
I am also a long term foster carer ,if the children go back ,we are at greater risk of catching the virus ,im hoping school will be off until at least sept ,
im worried sick ,3 of the children I have ,are asthmatic .I will fight for them not to ,

No. For us it would be asking us to come out of isolation whilst it is still not safe to do so, as according to the data, UK is still actively fighting this thing and will be for some time yet.

I completely understand the desire for " return to normality" but impatience hardly trumps the risk of contracting or passing covid.

Yes, but only because we have had coronavirus in our family early on in the pandemic and have all fully recovered thankfully

also we are really enjoying time as a family ,having a chilled house ,kids doing their work, on laptop ,then family time .trampolining or in pool, bike riding in garden ,having a walk where no 1 else goes,

DH on shielding list here, so no. Too risky. Have no idea how I will protect him until there is a vaccine - once school goes back and once work returns to normal. I feel a bit doomed.

Hell, no.

I completely understand the desire for " return to normality" but impatience hardly trumps the risk of contracting or passing covid

It's not just a desire for a return to normality though. The fact is that many, many people will die because of lockdown, lose their jobs and homes, and develop potentially irreparable mental health problems (the system was already not coping, let alone with increased demand). To simplify it and say people are just being impatient is very naieve and quite offensive. In an ideal world everyone would stay indoors until a vaccine is created, but even now that's not happening. Presuming that you still eat, people have had to go to work to get it to you. Ideally there needs to be a plan where the shielded are kept safe and supported in doing so, but the cost of everyone just in case is astronomical.

No. My son’s school is on a road with 2 other primaries, a high school and a 6th form. The road & foot traffic is outrageous as it’s a narrow road with narrow pavements. Plus there’s the risk of spread between parents, grandparents, teachers, child care providers, etc - not to mention the dog walkers that choose the school rushes to walk their pooches.