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

Why don't we look at this another way? On the 1st June, children spend two weeks, every day with their grandparents, friends, meeting up, going to the park etc. If all is well in the extended household by the 15th June, open schools to everyone! Clearly we will see then if children are spreading it!
BTW there is still no official directive regarding any date; the DfE currently has an open questionnaire specifically for parents of school children, asking them for their thoughts on a return date. It closes tomorrow and results won't be published for two weeks.
However, schools are now open again in Denmark and cases are now rising again.
Perhaps the press should be careful for what it wishes for.

Dd2 - no because year11 won't be going back.
Dd1- probably if year 12 go back. Though it looks like her school is setting " coursework in place of mocks" to do at home in the first 2 weeks of June, so they may decide to stick with this for those that can work effectively at home.
Dd1 is coping fine working from home, but dd2 is struggling a bit as they haven't really had any meaningful work to do since the schools broke up, and are definitely not going back until September. She could do some reading to prepare for sixth form, but isn't the type to spend large amounts of time reading.

Where has the 1st June come from ? The other week it's was suggested that you'd be a idiot to even think it will be any earlier than September.
It's already been said it was be phased return so some may go back earlier others not so we will see I suppose .
To answer the question yes of course will send back tomorrow if I could.

People’s objection to not sending healthy children back to school because of the risk to that child’s health isn’t sensible

why do you only focus on life and death though? People always conveniently forget about life-changing damages...

I’m guessing all of you on this thread who are fine about sending your dc back to school en mass don’t have anyone vulnerable in your households?

That’s true for us. No one vulnerable in our household or amongst wider family. Realise that this isn’t the case for everyone but I don’t agree we should be denying education to all because this is the case for some.

I can’t see the voting buttons or results but I’d love to know the split!

@Bluntness100

Don’t be daft, primary kids aren’t super spreaders and barely get ill. Their parents are usually in the age range of people with a very very low fatality rate.

On what planet

There are score and scores of people, on here alone, with primary school children who fall into shielding/vulnerable/high risk categories

Schools will need to decide who they can accommodate safely and how.

I suggest what you can do safely at one school can't be done at another.

Need to consider entry and exit. What ages can be in school to understand new rules. How classrooms are organised and spaced, lunchtime and play arrangements, sizes of space across the school for movement. What ages can stay at home.Staff and their health and safety. Part time for all or full time for some etc. What can't be taught and what can. Might be some schools open and some not? Do we change opening days?

May not be fully back to the school system we know until much later?
Hence schools will be in the dark 're any date but juggling many options and plans for the what if scenario. Lots of questions to be discussed before you can consider opening. I have no knowledge of any date to return and this is only my view, but I can't see June as doable.

@ZsaZsaMc it’s showing on mine as 33/67 in favour of YANBU

My children were also ill with covid - my 13mth old especially very poorly and my 5 year old still isn’t quite right 5 weeks later so I really couldn’t count your chickens saying children don’t get it badly. Mine were hospitalised and have no pre existing conditions.

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

"Screwing the economy & destroying the country" - well if there is a second much worse peak, of which there will be if we all rush our kids back too soon, then I agree with you so on that basis I will not be rushing my child back. Also I feel that very little is known about this virus and my kid won't be a guinea pig in this.

Yes, because she really needs it. I wouldn’t be happy about it though.

I’m in Germany and teacher DH starts back at school tomorrow. However it’s only currently the oldest year group in each school going back. Classes split so that less than 15 children are in each class. Under these circumstances I’d send my DC to school.

The day DS' nursery reopens I'll have to go back to work - we'll lose our house otherwise.

If we stay shut much longer, our entire department will have to close and I'll lose my job which would cripple us as a family.

If schools/nurseries reopen I'll have to go back to work - we have no choice.

Nope.

Where has the 1st June come from

Today's Sunday Times says the government is intending to reopen schools to Y6, Y10 and Y12 on June 1st.

Yes my son will go back. We are not vulnerable. However, I can't say I am keen on catching it and am a bit concerned about lasting effects from it like lung or kidney damage. However, I think DS' education is more important than something that may not happen. I am not convinced that so many people are getting the virus and remaining symptomless throughout (as opposed to the first couple of days), but if it is true, then hopefully we will be among those people.

Also ds is at sixth form college so only the Y12s are there.

I will be sending my son in. He's 6 nearly 7 and has no social contact with anyone apart from us and his little sister and he must be feeling it. And no matter what work we do how can I be sure he's not falling behind? I would hate for this to be his life until sept. We were already isolating for two weeks before lockdown due to us all being ill. So by sept that will be close to 6 months of not talking to /playing with any other children his own age? So yeah, my son's going back to school if it's a possibility.

If you don’t send your kid to school then your an idiot, quite frankly.

The Sunday Times doesn't actually say that though. It says they may be able to, but at the end quotes the government saying they haven't decided a date and schools will only go back when the time is right.

No way, I have a son with cerebral palsy and he attends a mainstream school but I’m not risking it. As I’ve been furloughed and DH is WFH we can keep him at home and he’s only five so he won’t necessarily miss much. The issue with children going back to school is that not every child will socially distance which will be the mandatory requirements for many months. Teachers and children will be affected no matter what people will say, some teachers will be in the vulnerable and shielding age so will replace them? How will lunch time and break times work? Children aren’t as less affected as adults. Plus are the older kids not on the same trajectory as those who are not in school at their age, or working etc who aren’t viewed as children?

If you don’t send your kid to school then your an idiot, quite frankly.

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Nope. Both asthmatic. They're staying at home as long as possible.

And if they don't find a vaccine - how long will you keep your kids at home?

If you don’t send your kid to school then your an idiot, quite frankly.

Why?

Don't rise to it, Corner.