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

Yes - pretty sure
We all went through the virus already so they should be fine by then. They got it mid March and were over it fairly quickly.

Yes, none of us are vulnerable and my spouse still has to work in a supermarket anyway so its not like a total lockdown for us.

No. Mine won't be going back until August at the earliest and even that will be dependent on the situation at the time.

For me it's a no, I'm a single parent and high risk I do not want to risk my children losing their mother at a young age and ending up in care and how on earth am I supposed to shield if they in school and risking them bringing it home.

I think that it does depend on what happens in the coming weeks. I think that if schools go back it will be difficult to have any other meaningful social distancing. I can’t imagine many kids will understand that you can be essentially part of a mass gathering all day then having to stay at home or not socialise in the evenings and weekends. I think the knock on effect on social activity needs to be considered properly.

No

Yes absolutely, statistically the risk to young children is minimal (and if you check the governments official figures at the Office of National Statistics you’ll see the number of ‘excess’ deaths is tiny).

Closing the country for six weeks is ridiculous. We need to get back to ‘business as usual’ and stop pretending this is so much worse than it is.

I know secondary schools here are sending work for s3 s4 and s5 after 4th May my youngest are due to start primary in August but they are scared right now so considering deferring a year to allow a full year of ore school

Yes absolutely, statistically the risk to young children is minimal

But the risk to others is huge

No, I have 2 vulnerable children and a vulnerable adult at home.

@sunshine11 - we’ve not hit the peak yet and potentially there could be 40,000 deaths. Hardly ridiculous to try and protect the public.

What @perniciousdot said.

The death rate went up by over 1000 today from yesterday. There is no way schools are going to open with statistics like that.

No, I think the risk to teachers would be unfairly large, with an estimate of only 10% of the population having had the virus.

I'm also pregnant and wouldn't feel comfortable with the exposure. I can work from home though and work around my children, a luxury many don't have.

Yes. School closures have a negligible effect on transmission rates and I can already see the effect on both my dc mental health.

We need a return to some kind of normality or the long term harmful social, educational and emotional effects will be worse than the virus. CAMHS was on it's knees anyway...constant emergencies...this will likely only get worse.

Not everyone is having idyllic Sunday supplement family time and reconnecting etc. no home ed here as both of us far too busy working as key workers but behind the scenes planning not front line so yes both dcs need to go back.

After May half term is better

Oh wow!! I think you’ll find they do 😂

I definitely would for my child’s sake. Quite concerned that if we send them back to school in September - judging by the upsurge in colds about 3 weeks later - that we would just be delaying a second peak to October or November. Let alone the long term effect psychologically of the message of an extended period of ‘don’t go near anyone outside your family’ will have for some.
Not so sure teachers would be happy with 11 May start back but our school’s teachers are working at the moment for key workers children so they might be.

I think it may be Sept before the schools go back. So heart says yes head says no

The government’s furloughed scheme has been extended until the end of June so can’t see anything happening for a good while yet.

You betcha!

Wow stop pretending this is much worse than it is !!!!!
Some people not living in the real world.
Who will get the blame if we send kids back to early and death rates go up ?
Parents or the government.

Yes

I would keep mine home, because I am able to. The school is bursting at the seams on a normal day and I expect they will still be some level of social distancing required so I would rather the children that need to be there have more space.

It depends on how things pan out in the next 3 weeks doesn’t it? If we are to social distance still how can schools open? Not just issues of social distancing but understaffing... many teachers & school staff are not young, have underlying medical issues or a just plain and simply scared- after all no PPE at schools...