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

[THATscurryfungeBITCH]

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

Yes - YABU
No - YANBU

Mine aren't primary age but- no.
Not because I'd worry about the children especially as they seem to get off lightly in most cases but I'd be worried that they'd be spreading it to the adults around them. Mine are at secondary and that was closed a couple of days before the official government shutdown as staff numbers had dropped too low due to many having symptoms or having been in contact with people who had. So it would only take a few weeks of schools being open for that to happen again theoretically.

I think we need to watch what happens in those European countries that have opened schools again.

No. Most children will have mild to moderate symptoms ( which can include pneumonia) and 6% of children need to be hospitalised ( and can have organ damage as a result). Children have died from the disease. Additionally, teachers, TAs, admin, catering and caretaking staff will all be exposed and social distancing will be next to impossible to achieve.

Year 3 or above - really happy to send them back albeit dd now really enjoys online teaching. Younger than that - will all depend on the rules. If no hugging, touching, sitting 2 meters away from other children, having to wear face masks, no sharing of toys - that's a rather traumatic experience for a little one, especially nursery and reception age, and I can't see how it can work with social distancing at this age group.

Are any classrooms big enough for children to sit 2 metres apart? What about the risks to teachers and other school staff?

Yes

jackie2669
Who will get the blame if we send kids back to early and death rates go up?
Parents or the government.

Nope, it will be the teachers, several of the posters on here have made quite clear there dislike of teachers on other threads.

As a teacher I am worried they will send kids back before it is safe because that is more convenient for people. Working with key workers children over the last few weeks has brought home the difficulties of social distancing and I just don't see how it would be possible with a full school.

I think if schools go back then they will go back without social distancing - I don’t think this is really compatible with running a full school.

Primary teacher with 1 of my 3 primary age and the younger 2 in a private nursery. I would have to because I would have to be in and so mine wpuld have to go. I teach Y1 and distancing is impossible practically and emotionally. I still have to go in some days for key workers and for anyone sheilding they have been told to take 12 weeks which won't be up until June and that includes staff, parents and grandparents so will impact many people in many ways. I expect self isolation will still need to apply. First of all I think the situation will be unique to everyone and no-one can judge anyone elses choice. Secondly it is only a review in 3 weeks I think the lockdown will be extended again at that point if I'm honest.

Not in a million years

The classrooms will never be big enough and there will always be a risk until a vaccine is found.

I just don’t know what people propose? No school for a year?

No not a snowballs chance in hell of that but my 2 have respiratory issues

Yes because my DS (ASD) is really struggling without the school structure. Like someone said up thread, the problem isn’t the being in school, it’s the school run aspect.

The question is not when should schools go back - but how??

How can schools safely operate to protect staff, students, parents and gramdparents. What stage is the pandemic, is it rife in commumities?

There seems pressure to sacrifice a few teachers parents and school children's lives for the sake of the economy - i think this is wrong

As an A+E doctor my daughter is already staying in school. There is no choice. Its interesting to read the armchair epidemiologist/virologist/public health perspective though.

I would because I’m as sure as I can be that we’ve had it. Might not otherwise. Testing would really help with this kind of decision though.

I also think their mental health is important and KS1 children in part can’t cope with being in for so long and not seeing other children.

Maybe they could rotate when the kids go in so they all get a couple of days a week, if they want to do social distancing within schools.

No. One of us a full time front line key worker, one of us full time worker, two kids 7&8- I won’t be sending them back until sept.
Government let us down not locking down earlier & not properly locking down at all. I do not trust their judgement to keep us safe going forward. They are learning loads at home with loads of play. I can work around this for this short period.

Delatron

I just don’t know what people propose? No school for a year?

we work to the plan of waiting out the curves and sending people back to work etc. when we are in clearly in the slumps.

If we rush this like Ylvamoon and others suggest we will just see a huge rise in deaths.

It will be interesting to see who Ylvamoon and others think will teach their kids when there are only a minimal amount of teachers left.

I won’t and hope that it is optional as well as it’s hard to predict when the second peak will happen.

No.

As the risk would be the children bringing it back to the adults in the house who will suffer more with this virus I wouldn't. I think it's too soon. However our school has 1200 pupils.

No.

It really depends on what the figures are doing at that point. That seems a little soon, I would be more comfortable sending my almost 11 year old back in June.

Having said that, I'm due my second baby on 13th June and am a little wary of dd being very poorly around then and/or me or the baby catching it.

It's very easy to become quite panicked about it all. We feel safe at home, limiting our contact with others. It's being hammered home that this is how to stay safe (which it is), but that sort of message being driven home on the tv, the radio, ads on spotify etc and then being told in a few weeks that we can go back to our business will be hard. It's been said we will have to socially isolate to some extent for some time, with it being the new normal, but it's hard to see how that might fit in with daily life for most of us.