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

The infection is not more prevalent now than when we went into lockdown
Ffs I wish people would stop spouting ill informed bullshit
The R figure was 3 at that point it's under 1 now
Infections and deaths are slowing
All in the garden isn't rosy but at least base your fucking arguments on facts
Fucking dementors

Hell yeah, then I’d move home whilst they are at school

I’ve had enough !

How are kids going to cope better at a school where, by the sounds of it, they won’t be able to go near their friends, can’t go out for break, can’t eat lunch together, and most likely can’t go to school all week anyway. If schools do open in some shape or form I doubt it will be in four weeks as Government won’t have met their own guidelines to track contacts of new cases. Opening schools and businesses without being able to track new cases would just result in cases surging and another lockdown. We need to get to a point where we are in control of testing and tracking, otherwise we’re just flying blind and hoping for the best. It won’t work. Also, and I keep saying this - no, we are not all expected to get it before a vaccine is available. Hence the reason we’re being told living with some form of social distancing is likely for the next year until a vaccine is found. The number of deaths would be enormous, and not a number anyone could rationally say they were ok with.

Absolutely. My children’s school had a number of confirmed cases pre lockdown. I was ill myself for six weeks with what was almost certainly Covid. My husband and DS1 had very mild symptoms. I suspect that it first reached the school in January when the boarders came back after the Christmas holidays. NOT ONE pupil, teacher or parent has died. The risk is very minimal. It is far outweighed by the negative effects of lockdown including on the children’s mental health, education and well-being.

I would send DD in as she is year 6 and needs some preparation to transfer to high school.

Yes.

Because I have to pay my mortgage and bills and buy food for my family.

100% yes , I need to go back to work my brain is shrinking :)

Yes. Of course I would.
Children are less likely to die of CV19 than the seasonal flu. They are being kept at home for other people’s sake. Not their own. If scientists who know more than me think it’s a reasonable risk. I will support our society by sending them back with no misgivings.

I will definitely as soon as they open.my son is year 6 so feel like he needs a bit of time to help him transition but my main worry is my daughters mental health.she has been really struggling and I think getting back to some routine and to see her friends will help.the change in her since lockdown is frightening so i can’t imagine if she is to stay in until September

Yes! yes! yeeeeeeeeees!!!!

They are being kept at home for other people’s sake. Not their own.

Apart from the shielding children. And also those children who have shielding parents who are better served by having access to their parent than a half-term of half-arsed days at school.

I dare you to come stand in a covid ward and still say its pure hysteria!

What will have changed by then? Will the numbers of people infected be properly tested by then, and will they have fallen to a low enough rate?
Will there be a treatment that stops people from getting so ill?

If not, then absolutely not. I am lucky enough to be able to work around home schooling if necessary. I don't want to keep my family off school but there is no way I am risking their health like that.

Numbers are falling because of the lockdown. Without actual, proven, well-organised measures in place then there will be another rise in infections and deaths. If that takes until September, or even January, then I'll wait til then.

Yes. We have a immune system for a reason

It's unlikely this will happen. A risk manager for a local council has told me that no school assessments will take place till at least July.

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully Amen! 🙌🏼

Reading back through posts, @cantory I agree with you. I also took mine out a week early, and I'm also waiting for evidence before I send them back. I get that a lot of people aren't in the position to do that, and it's very unfair how all of this is impacting on different families. But it seems madness when almost nothing concrete has changed (beyond ideas of slightly more distancing and hand-washing). The numbers have to come down drastically first because this is so contagious, so if it does get a hold again, the numbers of cases can become massive in such a short time.

No. Unless things change a lot in the next month my kids.

1. Because I am vulnerable and my kids would suffer more distress losing their mother than a few weeks at school.

1. Schools will not be doing a proper education with all the restrictions needed to open the schools at all. Better my kids stay home and do 2/3 hours a day online than a tiny part of the curriculum in school.

3.There is no safe way to get my high school kids to school, I can't drive atm and I will not make them travel on buses at this time. These are very overcrowded with other pupils .

I plan to have sick children for three weeks. I reckon it will be clear by then whether the schools will reclose due to illness of students/parents/teachers and then I will consider sending them....maybe.

I am hopeing they extend school places to those parents who need them in order to work outside the house but aren't keyworkers. Leave the rest of kids at home until September.

@phlebasconsidered couldn't agree more with you!

No has said it's pure hysteria ffs
And some of us wave our family members off to work so that key workers can keep working
Some of us perish the thought work in these environments
I haven't said it's hysteria
But neither is it an Armageddon that means we give up all critical thinking and risk assessment skills and make a reasonable balanced decision for our families

Yes. We have a immune system for a reason

Did you get the nugget of wisdom from an anti-vaxxer's bumper?

And yes please
Please keep your kids at home
More room for those of us who want to send ours back

Until testing for anti-bodies, there are risks.
It lives in the air for a couple of hours.
It lives on surfaces for a couple of days.

And don't forget, children have died from it.

I'm watching what the rest of the world is doing, and will base my decision on everything I have learnt since January.

But when they do open, it won't be open doors and everything returns to normal. Many children will be on a phased return. Chances are it will be staged by year groups even if it's just to try and deal with any potential staffing issues.

@hobnobsaremyfave.
You're voicing all the frustrations that I'm too pathetic to. Thank you! Second everything you're saying.