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.

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

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

Feel so sad for them !

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 !!

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!!

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!?

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

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.

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.

@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!