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

No - he's 26!!!!!

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

How? According to another thread only 17 per cent of the workforce at worst will not be able to work. Should the other 83 per cwnt just suck it up? Should I risk my family's health for 17 per cent?

Opening schools should be about education and welfare. Not economics.

My GC will be going back, they are all under six, so in no danger. I don't know how we would feel if we had teens. Hopefully we will have antibody testing and we are becoming more sure that we may be immune for a few months at least. But we'll have enough people from infection in February to build up answers to the questions. There might be enough immunity floating about.

(17% being those workers with younger and primary aged children to care for).

Its the government floating ideas in the national papers. Lets wait and see what they actually announce on Thursday.

PLEASE LET IT BE TRUE!

That is all.

I’m a parent and I’d be happy to help with a rota to sanitise the school if there was insufficient cleaning staff.

I’m not afraid to roll my sleeves up!

People who say there is no danger are only thinking about the children.

What about the risk to teachers and other school staff and their families?

I don't really understand people saying that there's only a tiny risk to children. DD1 had the virus really pretty badly and 6 weeks on she's still not fully recovered. She's 7 and has no underlying health problems. It's the luck of the draw and I wouldn't recommend that anyone takes that risk with their child.

Well it looks as though roughly a third of parents on this bite will be keeping their children off.

That’ll help with the social distancing 👍

Are you going to be making your decision based on the vote or are you some kind of political bot that I've heard starts threads to gauge or sway public opinion?

Yes, though she's 17 and might have different ideas! I don't think she'll be very keen getting the train and she hates college anyway, her mental health is much better at home.

Nope. I’m pregnant and I’m in the third trimester so there’s absolutely no way I’m risking it.

Exactly Eight
Hope your daughter feels better soon.

Exactly Becky. When the NHS writes to the government to specifically ask them NOT to open schools because of the risk, you just know that teachers, TA's and support staff are being viewed as collateral damage. Not even worth a face mask.

Absolutely yes!

Yes, the second they open the gates!

Beckyboom every other key worker in the country has had to go out to work during the peak of the pandemic. I’m sure it’s easier for the government to provide teachers with masks rather than trying to bring laptops to thousands of underprivileged children.

Schools won't be going back on 1/6. Wales, Scotland and NI have all been more open about the plan than England and have said it won't be before the summer break

I think people are forgetting why we are in lockdown we can’t just go back to how it was before anytime soon. Due to an initial high R value, and consequently exponential transmission the amount of virus circulating is significantly higher than it was at the start of lockdown. Just reopening the schools as they were (fully occupied) or any other element of society, now would inevitably result in another worse second peak, and demand a second extended lockdown period to provide the NHS with any chance of not being overwhelmed.
Not sure where 1 June suggestion has come from for the UK at least, surely anyone looking at the current daily data and graphs can see it would be highly unlikely.

If it’s compulsory I would. Otherwise I would need to think about it.... I will have a newborn then and I don’t want to expose her to the virus.

Dd is in year 12 and said if its open she'll go because then social distancing will be over and she can see her friends.
Can't fault her logic.

If I got a call to day the school was opening tomorrow I’d be sending mine in
Same here, @LettyBriggs

I can't see the point in my year 11 going back before September.

Scotland and Ireland break up end of June for summer anyway. Slightly different.