Keeping children at home until September

[Witchcraftandhokum]

I work in a school and I'm seeing and hearing a lot of this both on here and in the contact I have with parents. I am worried about how we will manage social distancing and whether we will have PPE if the schools open soon, but I do appreciate the need for kids to be in school, particularly Year 6 and 10.

I also don't know how it will work if a lot of parents chose not send their kids back until September. I wonder just how many parents will do this?

So...
YABU - My kids won't be back until September.
YANBU - My kids will go back as soon as the schools open.

[Sodamncold]

@lwjint

You honestly don’t see the difference?
Australia is a country with vast expanses of... nothingness
Many many very isolated tiny communities. Very self sufficient and used to not grocery shopping

And then there is the UK. A tiny country rammed with people!

[lwjint]

New Zealand and Australia have had only a handful of confirmed cases for a few weeks. NZ started reopening schools last week and AU did this week. Their death rates are very low, 0.4 in AU and 0.5 in NZ. The number is death per 100000 people. Their scientists didn't recommend reopening schools until lately. UK death rate is 55. I don't understand what is different for us.

[Rosebel]

My daughter's school have also said September absolute earliest but think they are trying to get Y10 and 12 in before the summer. The majority of the school remains closed though.
I wouldn't send them back earlier but by September our baby will be born and a,few months old. By September we'll also be able to see what's working and what's not. If a have a second peak then they won't going back.
I thought the government hadn't made a final decision about schools yet anyway but I missed most of the briefing today.

[MerlinMoo]

My sons school have already told us they wont be back until September at the earliest.

[milkysmum]

I live in the North west of England. You would absolutely never know we were still in lock down honestly. Towns and parks are as busy as they ever were, yet Children’s education has all but ground to a halt, non of this makes any sense it really doesn't!?

[lwjint]

South Korea had 25 new cases today. They started reopening schools only this week. A majority of the parents are claiming to close again because the daily cases are INCREASING for 4 days in a row. UK had still almost 2500 today!!

[bigchris]

Tomorrow there are announcing more businesses allowed to open, it's highly likely we'll be able to go to a bloody Wetherspoons and get our hair cut but teenagers are just going to be allowed to roam about in town for the next three months !!

[bigchris]

Feel so sad for them !

[LittleBearPad]

@bigchris I absolutely agree. I think the secondary children should go back too.

[bigchris]

@LittleBearPad its beyond ridiculous

Teenagers need their peers , and routine , Sept ember will be problematic enough after 6 weeks of no school let alone 6 months

[bigchris]

I meant that government guidance could change but dds school have said catergoically not years 7, 8 and 9

[bigchris]

Sorry to confuse

They have said only year 10 and 12 will go back

So years 7,8,9 they have decided they will not be returning to school this summer term , this is a state school not private

[LittleBearPad]

I thought it was only primary schools where they were thinking more years might go back pre-summer. (Except year 10 and 12 who might get some face to face teaching)

[Sodamncold]

previous post you say * I got an email saying no school for her until September

Last post you say They said only years 10 and 12 are going back as per government guidance, except that could change before the end of term*

So I’m confused. Have they said your year 8 will not be back until September? Or have they advised the two years that are going back and that the situation may change before the end of term?

[bigchris]

They said only years 10 and 12 are going back as per government guidance, except that could change before the end of term which is why I'm a bit fed up

[Sodamncold]

Did the email say it was their own decision? Because nothing as yet from the gov re any years other than R, 1 and 6

[bigchris]

@Sodamncold

[bigchris]

England

[Sodamncold]

@bigchris

What country?

[bigchris]

My dd is year 8

I got an email saying no school for her until September

The government haven't said what is happening in July yet

so sad she won't see her friends , I think they've jumped the gun

[HavenDilemma]

YANBU!!!!

[milkysmum]

I'm also wondering about childcare over the summer. I'm a single parent and a nurse. I would usually put both of my primary aged children in holiday clubs over the summer but I cannot imagine for one minute that these will be open?

[LittleBearPad]

If some schools have gone back in June and it’s all ok. Wait for people suddenly changing their tune and demanding their kids are in every day.

That will happen for some people within days of the schools opening anyway - fomo will kick-in.

But I do think there are people put things off. They’ll want to do it again in August but it’s quite likely from September attendance will be mandatory.

[SallyWD]

Mine are year 2 and 4.ill send them back when we can

[timeforawine]

Mine is going back to nursery on 1st June, if she was in school I'd have been sending her back there.