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

If they do open then, then yes. We can't self-isolate for ever or wait for a vaccine that could be 2-3 years away if it ever appears.

I will send mine back the day school opens.

Aren't those at risk still going to be shielding on 1st June? I don't trust the government to open school safely and certainly don't trust the children to keep to it. Adults can't even follow the guidelines, got no chance of children doing it. Imagine the poor teacher trying to enforce it. They won't be able to teach they'll be too busy making sure the children stay away from each other.
As I have one child and my husband at risk I'm not going to let my child be a guinea pig but feel free to do that if you want. All that will.happen is cases will rise,again and your children will have a rubbish summer holiday just like Easter.

I will send them but with trepidation, my dc developed dry cough week before lockdown and schools closing. I became ill with a virus a week later probably covid but unconfirmed/ not tested DC were mildly unwell. For me it wasn't a nice experience, not one I'd be in a hurry to repeat and theres not enough information or rearch on immunity

I've been following how many new cases are reported in my area daily. They are rising steadily day by day. Until they drop I won't be sending DD to school. I'm very lucky that I can work from home.

No

Ds will go back when school reopens. But I can’t see how it will work, other countries seem to have the kids in effectively part time- I’m not sure how this will help restart the economy if kids are in and out.

Possibly they should allow kids to go back if at least one parent can’t work from home to cut down numbers.

But it’s thought as kids are often a symptomatic then they are superspreaders so teachers could end up subject to high viral loads which o understand is commonly agreed to be a major risk factor for complications.

@Rosebel I assume the extremely vulnerable group will not have to send kids or work at school, but that the vulnerable group will which includes pregnant women, people with diabetes, etc. The vulnerable group includes a lot of people and most schools cannot open if they are not made to work in the school. Of course this is a real risk to their health.

@TrueNorthStrong A vaccine has been developed and is being tested. We have been told they will know by June/July if it is effective and by the end of the year they will be able to have produced millions of doses.

Personally don't think it is worth risking any of my families lives when we will know in a month or two if there is an effective vaccine.

Sorry but no I dont think I would.
The situation being as it is right now, if she caught Covid19 the likelihood is it would kill her, me, and both of her grandfathers who rely on our care.

I couldn't take that risk.

I'd considered that she could attend if she were using hand sanitiser, at a distance to others, and able to wear a mask, but there are teachers who were bollocking her for using sanitiser about a week before the schools closed so I am unsure how that would work.

If I was certain she could use masks, be 2m away from others, had access to handwash whenever required as hand sanitiser isnt easily found right now, I'd say yes.

My dd2 is in primary locally so we'd send her back.

My dd1 though has to travel on the tube to get to secondary school on a very busy line so I'm not sure; we'd have to assess if and when it happens to decide if we think that there are adequate protections in place.

No I won't.

@cantory A vaccine has been developed and is being tested. We have been told they will know by June/July if it is effective and by the end of the year they will be able to have produced millions of doses. where’s this info coming from - who are they?

Surely if schools are opened there won’t be a choice will there?

But it’s thought as kids are often a symptomatic then they are superspreaders

It’s the opposite, they don’t think children are super spreaders. I agree the science needs to be confirmed on this.

I wonder how many of the more negative posts on here are from Wales/Scotland and NI where it looks like the schools will remain closed until August? Every single family I know are desperate to get their children back into school in England before the long summer holidays begin.

Teachers need to realise that it is either a June start or we lose the summer holidays - that is what it comes down to.
Mainly because the warm weather will reduce transmission. It is the safest time to return - both in terms of low transmission rates, warm weather affects the virus, more time can be spent outdoors and it is indeed naturally much quieter in hospitals than winter months. Come September things will be no different.So we need to maximise the summer months, and we can not expect our young people to lose their education for six months, some children will never catch up! Totally unfair given the low risks to the children themselves.

We won't 'lose the summer holidays' and to suggest that is ridiculous. Teachers aren't having a holiday at the moment, neither are the pupils.

Teachers need to realise that it is either a June start or we lose the summer holidays - that is what it comes down to.

Tell that to Ireland. They're doing neither of those things. Their schools are reopening in a phased manner in the new academic year. Also, why the "Teachers need to realise"...this thread is about whether parents feel confident to send their DC back.

Teachers aren't having a holiday at the moment, neither are the pupils

That’s a bit disingenuous, I’m not sure if you really believe it? Spend five mins on here and you will see plenty are..

I don't know.
I might be able to cope with a handful of spread out days for my year 6 to help with transition. I certainly wouldn't be happy with everyone in, every day. My year 8 is ok working at home.
One day in then three weeks off to monitor illness might be ok.

Decadent, that’s exactly what was on the news.

Oxford university. I’m surprised you don’t know this, though I’ve heard two accounts of when we will know whether the third phase (currently running) is effective, as those who have received the trial vaccine now have to avoid catching it, which is tricky when we are in lockdown anyway.

If I were a high school teacher, I’d want my y10 classes back, it’s not going to be easy catching up, and that work will have to be done by the teachers. Six weeks is a good start.

Bluntness100

Re Superspreaders.

They still don't know either way.

Biscuit0110

Teachers need to realise that it is either a June start or we lose the summer holidays - that is what it comes down to.

Yet it has been stated that there are no plans to open schools in the summer.

They still don't know either way

I suspect they do. And by the first of June it will be very very obvious from other countries to all of us.