who is sending their child back?

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I have twins due 27 June, so I don't want my daughter socialising with others then coming home to the newborns. Is anyone else not sending their child back. Most mums on the class Whatsapp group are sending theirs back, AIBU?

I’m not sending mine back

Mine will be waiting at the school gate!

Nope. Mine are not going back

Mine isn’t going back either.

Mine are

I don’t even think they’ll go back. However, if they do, mine won’t be joining them.

Straight back for mine. She needs the social interaction!

I'm NHS and a single parent, mine have been there the whole time.

Most aren't here I think. Or it could bw just my circle. Apart from yr 6

My grandchildren will be going back. I think by June we'll have a lot more knowledge. We are weeks behind other European countries.

Nope. Don't want to put them in the first wave of those going back. Will reconsider after 3 weeks of returning, when I see how schools are managing and what infection rates do.

There is going to be no vaccine for a long, long time...we cannot keep children at home as parents cannot home school - the last poster @ SunbathingDragon has shown that quite well.
Most people with a low risk if we contract the virus have to accept that life has a new level of risk and just get on with it.

The alternative is what? No proper education for the next 2 years, people dying from cancer though less screening, less treatment for conditions which cause blindness.

Mine is year 10 but he will go back for whatever it is that is offered , he has to sit gcse next year and will of missed months of school and is quite worried
He actually wants to go back to school ( something I thought I would never hear ) if I had younger ones I would also send them subject to no underlying health conditions and it if in similar position to op young babies due

I'm not sure atm. Feel like I need more information to decide.

With all the fuss this has caused I can't see schools opening 1st june anyway.

No.

No way. The government are hoping to get them all together and push the second peak into the summer holidays, rather than autumn, which I understand. But I dont want my child used as a Guinea pig by the government.

Our head has said that they won't be teaching the curriculum, it'll be a childcare setting mainly

No, mine are staying home. I have one shielding.

I'm so glad I live in Scotland, but if I didn't then he wouldn't be going back for a long while.
I do think things will change over the next few weeks and neither will English children go back to school either.

Another single parent NHS worker here, DS has been in school throughout

Yes, when it’s open, mine will be there.

Small rural school, tiny classes, no one vulnerable in our household. We don’t need public transport to get there, and as an only child she’s desperate to go back to her peers.

I don't believe that hhe schools will be opening on 1st June anyway, but no, DD4 won't be going back. Thankfully we're in a position to make that choice. Lots aren't, and I dont envy them one bit.

I'll send mine back, but only if they do it in a careful way. In Denmark they've got small class sizes, and within the classes they have small groups of children are allowed to mix without having to distance. I think that sounds like a good approach.

If they send them back and everybody has to wear masks and stay 2m apart from each other, it'll be too scary for my 5yo, and I won't be sending her back.

Our school really would lend itself to this though. Lots of classrooms, separate areas of the playground, lots of gates onto site. We've also got small classes (rural school).

Will have to wait and see. I hope they do go back, even if it's only for a short while.

If this is how it will be, no, mine won’t be going back.

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For those whose kids are currently attending how has your school managed social distancing?