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. Our local health authority is predicting our peak to be late May / early June. Our hospital is still trying to make extra bed spaces. We are still learning so much about this virus. Neither of my kids are in what I would class important years.

The government have confirmed several times at the press conferences that the peak was around 8th April or mid April at latest
Today again they said we are over the peak🤷‍♀️

Nope way to early .want to know more about this side affect that is affecting more children at the moment and looking at the pictures of some of them poor kids.no way June

Wasnt planning to anyway but today’s update shows that our region has in largest increase in cases, more than London, so a certain no.

@daisymay133 I suspect you're right. It doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do though.

Personally I would first open up the childcare option to those non-keyworkers who need it to be able to work. Then I'd let y10 and y12 go back and possibly y6 for transition work. The rest I'd leave until September. Hopefully, that could work with staff who are able to go in and those who can't would be able to keep providing work for children at home.

I think having different children being in and out on different days would be way too disruptive to be of any benefit for the children and it wouldn't help anyone much for childcare either. Never mind how teachers are supposed to work around that!

Can’t even consider it. Have a child who’s vulnerable with at risk health conditions. God only knows how long we’ll be stuck in isolation. Having said this it’s not a huge step away from my previously ‘normal’ life as a parent carer.

I agree with you @nobodyimportant. Focus on key stage transition groups and leave the rest. At least it’ll contain numbers too rather than being a free for all madhouse of potential transmission rate increases. Who wants Coronavirus for the summer holidays? Or at all? No thanks.

Yes, they will be fine. Much better for them to be in school, rather than stewing and fighting each other at home. The possibility of no schooling for six months would have a far more detrimental impact.

Hopefully, that could work with staff who are able to go in and those who can't would be able to keep providing work for children at home.

You'd also need a decent spread of staff who can teach different subjects in both groups. If the staff that are at more risk and so don't go in are specialists in English, Geography and Physics, they won't be able to prepare remote work for students studying Food Technology, German and Music and vice versa.

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Can’t even consider it. Have a child who’s vulnerable with at risk health conditions. God only knows how long we’ll be stuck in isolation. Having said this it’s not a huge step away from my previously ‘normal’ life as a parent carer. “

Just wanted to say hello 😊 was listening to a fantastic lady called Bev on the Today programme this morning. She has a daughter with special needs, non-verbal autism and epilepsy. She attends what sounds like a wonderful school but of course, can’t right now because she also has other health vulnerabilities. It was so distressing.

Her opinion and that of the, so dedicated, headmaster, was that these severely disabled children are forgotten.

Bev cannot leave her daughter to go to the lavatory or make a cup of tea whilst she is awake in case she fits. She’s been doing this, with no support, for 7 weeks.

I don't know. Part of me wants to so they can have some structure and sense of normality but on the other hand, my husband's in the extremely vulnerable category.

You'd also need a decent spread of staff who can teach different subjects in both groups. If the staff that are at more risk and so don't go in are specialists in English, Geography and Physics, they won't be able to prepare remote work for students studying Food Technology, German and Music and vice versa.

Yes, that's true, I was thinking more of primary school. It would be trickier in secondary but still more manageable than children in and out on different days on some kind of rota I think.

I haven't read the whole thread. I am really nervous about schools reopening and what it will mean for the rise in infection rates. My son however is keen to go back in. If they are reopening, I would like them to make it not compulsory to attend. If it's compulsory, it's likely I will send him in although I haven't fully decided. I am in the vulnerable group health-wise, but not extremely vulnerable and haven't had a letter saying that I need to shield. Nevertheless I am worried about how it will affect me if I catch the virus. I would like them to stay off til September and I certainly hope that they don't reopen until 1. Infection rates are much lower 2. PPE is fully available to anyone in work and school who needs it (priority to NHS and care staff, but anyone going to work or school after the easing of lockdown is likely to need some form of PPE, even if it's just hand sanitizer readily available) 3. Tests are available to anyone who has symptoms, and contact tracing is fully operational 4. Additional measures are built into the school day to reduce risk eg temperature checks, supervised hand washing, staggered breaks, extra cleaning etc. Fingers crossed!

YES!

No mine won’t be going back. This is still a very new virus which is only just starting to be understood. They aren’t opening schools because they understand the virus/disease and are happy all is safe. They’re opening for practical reasons. Look at the long term sequale of other viral infections such as mumps. Who knows that there won’t be long term issues for kids even with mild initial symptoms.

I’ll reconsider in September by which time the science will understand far more.

YANBU!

DC1 is in year 1 & I really think it would be best if the schools go back as soon as it's safe etc

Don't forget the lockdown was extended recently to help prevent a potential wave.

And if schools were to open, they need to hurry up and let schools and LA's know so that everything will be in place.

Not as simple as open the doors and get studying.

The laptops and tablets that have been promised to schools won't be rolled out until the end of June at the earliest. Not that they should be sitting in front of screens for hour-long lessons to begin with.

No no no , to soon but I am working on the fact that children with parents in the vulnerable group would rather wait till sept
And still have I mum

It’s a shame that parents can’t be trusted not to send ILL !!!! kids to school
In the week before lock down at our child’s school, some parents we’re still sending their
Kids in with 1 high temperature
2 sore throats etc so whilst we have to continue to deal with such totally selfish stupid adults,
Come on mums time to think further than self

Must be nice to be able to say no...if schools and nurseries go back I will have no choice but to return to work

MsGreen 🤣😂are you new around here. A lot of parents are very selfish. Many live in a bubble were everything will continue as before.

No I wouldn't send mine back in June. The rates of infection are still ridiculously high and that's only the ones that are being confirmed with testing so we can comfortably times that by 8 to get the true figures. Sending them back too early would be a disaster and completely undo all the hard work of the last 7 weeks. The lockdown has brought the peak, and slowly we are on the decline allegedly. Stupid mistakes now will just cause another peak and we all start from scratch.

My child has made so much more progress than he ever does at school even through.our very sporadic home schooling. Seriously having to consider home school.

No, I don't think so.

A lot can happen in a month, of course, but it seems crazy to allow primary-school aged children to school as they won't be able to enforce any sort of distancing or hygiene. Maybe for GCSE A-Level students...

I don't think they'll be back by 1st June. I wouldn't be happy with it. Primary children cannot social distance. Not to mention the parents congregating at the school gates at pick up. I know people think this virus has been blown out of proportion and I do also feel the media has created a frenzy but it should definitely not be taken lightly! People are dying. There is no vaccine and treatment is not effective. I will keep my children home until I feel it is safe for them to return. I'm dreading it and if homeschooling was going better I would probably home school until next year!