Will you be sending your child on 'June 1st'

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I've done this in AIBU for the voting feature. IF (and a big IF) schools go back on June 1st, will you be sending yours?

YABU - NO

YANBU - YES

Well it would be nice to have the luxury to decide!

Those of us in work but unhappy about the kids going back to school will have a pretty hard time justifying that to an employer who also expects you to be returning to work.

I can't see voting. Would love to send DC back! As soon as allowed.
All 4 of my DC have their lives but especially their education on pause.

No because that would still be half term week for those of us who get 2 weeks at Whit

We will send back the day school reopens.

My partner works in hospitality so is currently home all week. Can't financially justify my DS going to nursery in June if partner is still off. Feel it's a shame though because he started just before LOCKDOWN and it really helped his development.

Of course I will and anyone who doesn’t is seriously screwing the economy and destroying the country. It’s hysteria pure and simple. The so called peak happened on the 8th April - the lockdown therefore is a failure.

I will send DD back as soon as they open. She misses school so much and she absolutely loves her teacher and really wants to have a few weeks with her before changing teachers at the end of the year.

We aren't in any vulnerable categories, and are pretty sure we've had it in our house already.

Yes because I’d like to keep my job. Tough decision to have to make but unfortunately it’s not really mine to make if we want to keep a roof over our heads and food in the table

It depends what distancing measures they have in place. If it’s school as it was back at the beginning of March then no.

Is there anything official saying kids are going back in 1st June??? I have only heard rumours and wishful thinking.

"So called peak"? If we hadn't locked down, there would have been a bigger peak still building right now. That was the bloody point of the lockdown, to lower the number of people dying early.

Absolutely.

I let my 12 year old ds walk to and from school...the risk from road traffic is far greater imo than the risk of cv...yet I still send him in.

My dd is younger and really missing her friends. I feel the damage to children from isolation, loneliness not to mention the effect on their education is far worse than cv.

@TheMotherofAllDilemmas, well, those of us who work in schools have heard absolutely nothing at all. No idea where people are getting June 1st from, other than it being the first day back after half term for many schools.

This will now just continue the spinning of the rumour mill about “when the schools are going back”.

I don’t have voting buttons anymore for some reason but the answer is a resounding yes. If I got a call to day the school was opening tomorrow I’d be sending mine in.

@MrsPear the 'so called peak' has happened because we locked down. The timing really isn't a coincidence. The lockdown is doing what it is supposed to.

Yes. I need to go back to work, DS is fed up and the risk to children his age is minute.

I will, assuming it's part of a sensible plan with monitoring of rates.

*Of course I will and anyone who doesn’t is seriously screwing the economy and destroying the country.

I don't understand this.
Why will it screw the country's economy and destroy the country, if I don't send my kids back to school?

Not opening the schools might screw the economy. But me, just staying at home with my two home educated children, and keeping my two schooled children off as well. How would that be so catastrophic?

Absolutely

Mine has been in since the start.

No. Too many unknowns. Not enough data to support returning.

Nothing's changed since the chaos in schools just before lockdown. We'll be back to square one.

Mine (y9) get public buses/taxis

Massive secondary, inner city, very high rates of infection in our area.

The UK will soon be second on the Worldometer. Only falling behind a country 40 times larger than ours. Now is not the time to be making even more stupid decisions.

Can't see the voting (I never can, dont know why) but I will be. DS is in year 10 and has struggled a bit. DDs just miss their friends and both want to go back. They could also use the time to have a break from each other. None of them have left the house (and garden) since they went to school. They don't seem bothered about that part, but would all like to go back to school at some point.

Realistically I'm expecting DS to be able to go back and possibly DD2 (year 3), but DD1 (year 7) I would imagine is the least likely to be going back until September. We will see though.

Teachers and schools have NOT heard this - it's just the Telegraph.

And no, if I go back to school I would not be sending my own children because I know firsthand what a bloody nightmare it was trying to get the class to wash their hands, let alone be socially distant. I also know full well that we won't have PPE, there will be no extra cleaners or equipment and I will be expected to do it myself. Younger kids don't understand and the older ones find it hilarious to cough at you. I might have to put myself into the middle of a massive petri dish but I'm not putting my kids into it.

The way things are at the moment I can't imagine that happening but I suppose things can change a lot over the coming weeks. I don't know... probably I will as it is ds' final weeks of primary school.

Yes. My son is Y1 and misses his friends and school. We are doing nice things at home but he gets a lot out of going to school.

Plus, as a teacher, I would be likely back in full time so need DS to go to school.