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

There are 16 million vulnerable people in the U.K.

They have been told to be especially stringent in their social distancing.

Are these vulnerable teachers and school staff supposed to come into school all of a sudden? Social distancing will be impossible, let alone stringent social distancing.

anyone who doesn’t is seriously screwing the economy and destroying the country. It’s hysteria pure and simple oh give over. If people refuse to go back to work and their jobs can't be backfilled maybe, but you do realise not everyone works 9-5 M-F?

Projected attendance figures for the schools I work with across different areas and settings are 25%.

Even better if this the case. Not sure I trust these projected attendance figures though. They thought scores of parents would abuse the key worker provision. In our medium sized primary the average number of key worker children attending daily has been 8!

@EightWellies are you suggesting we keep the dc at home until there’s a vaccination?

We are not going to keep ours off nursery until there is a vaccine so why not June?

My ds can't wait to get back to college, he is missing his friends. And as it's a sixth form college it will only be half full. So yes if college reopens on June 1st he will absolutely be there.

Yes. One's definitely had it and the other has either had it asymptomatically, or is Corona proof as he was in a house full of it for weeks.

But not convinced the schools will be open.

We will, however, keep our DCs away from grandparents for longer than any lockdown restrictions require. A June return would have me assuming we keep the kids away from parents/PIL until August.

IL will want to travel down from differnt part of country via train as soon as the school's re-open. It's why the keep asking about the schools. They had to get back from Spain from a holiday at the start of this they flew out saying it was just flu. I image we'd put them off for a bit as one has underlying condition but not sure it would be till August.

Also DH still has slight hopes to go away on holiday - early July - UK holiday we'd get there by train. I think once schools open the expecation of that happening increases.

Stairway I can’t think of another group of key workers who are in a room with a group of people who are known to be asymptomatic spreaders of the virus with absolutely no protection.

I am so grateful to all key workers but I’m not sure how putting more people at risk would make up for the position they have been put in already?

(Also am not a teacher and don’t work in a school. Just can’t see how school staff can be adequately protected)

Yes for my kids and I want to get back to teaching in real life too.

My typing is worse than I thought, should have said "Our Head was initially thinking we'd open for Y10 and Y7 only at first but has worked out that with social distancing in place we wouldn't even have enough staff (or enough rooms) to accommodate those two groups."
So we are literally looking at being able to have one year group in school per day if and when we reopen if social distancing measures are in place. I'm not sure that's going to help parents "get back to work" in the manner many are hoping for. This in turn creates a problem if Teachers children are not able to attend their own schools/childcare settings on the day they're meant to be in. A lot of the staff in the school where I work rely on grandparents to care for their preschool age DC.

BilboBercow I live in wales and we have NOT said we're not going back before sept.

Scotland and NI won't cos they break up earlier for summer and go back in August so no point for them. I live on the English border and there are many families whose kids go to school in England plus some English kids go to school in wales. This happens all the way down the length of the border.

Wales will do same as England and you're deluded if you think differently. The govt will learn from the example abroad. Even Wohans kids are back to school. Sweden never closed schools.

I think a few weeks back on 1 June will do everyone good.

I can imagine of schools open from 1 June, our 'half term' will require us teachers to be in for at least some of the time to prepare classrooms / arrangements etc. So DD2 will have to go in (DH can adjust his hours to cover the odd day but cannot WFH the full time).

I expect it will be unlikely DD1 can return too quickly- she is y8 and travels using school transport. She probably isn't seen as a priority year and they would need to distance on the busses... although she will be in when she can.

I am concerned about how to socially distance as I don't think it is really possible in schools. I am also not sure how we will be expected to balance full time teaching in the classroom as well as supporting home learners if we have a phased return.

I think a lot of people who say they won’t, when it comes to a straight choice of de regging and home schooling or sending them in, will be flying out the house in the morning to get them in there.

Posters comparing it other death instances know you can’t catch terrorism or a car accident right?

Being concerned about catching a highly contagious virus that is killing people at an alarming rate and has caused a global pandemic isn’t ‘living in fear’ - it seems quite sensible

I think they need to for their mental well-being, so I will be. Mine have likely had it though.

Yes I agree. When it comes to it they’ll be going in. Interesting that Ireland have announced their schools staying closed till September and that’s with an easing of lockdown plan in place already.

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Absolutely

I'm also wondering how they will bus the children in. Our schools are first, middle and upper and from middle school most children catch the bus. It's a large, rural catchment.

Can’t see it happening in four weeks time - especially if Bojo lifts lockdown restrictions in any significant way next week - that would mean that by the beginning of June we’ll just be entering the second wave of peak infection with numbers back up & rising. My 10 year old would love to go back though & if it were possible & well managed I would send him in, who knows!?

I think even one day a week is better than nothing! We can't continue to live in limbo. Protect the vulnerable, let them stay at home and allow the rest of us to get on with living!

I am in Ireland, so any choice has already been taken from us. If I was still in the UK, and they had announced June, I think I would have felt really conflicted.

I just want to know either way

Mrs pear thats a ridiculous comment. The peak happened then and not now as we were locked down. If lockdown hadn't happened then numbers would still be rising.

It makes me mad that people think thousands dying is hysteria. Al a conspiracy right?