To send my kids back to school when the cabinet does?

[ChavvySexPond]

Are any members of the cabinet sending their children back to school on June 1st?

Why ever not?

The schools they go to aren't opening you say?

Why not?

Eh?

I've no idea, have you tried googling it?

YANBU. If it's not safe enough for the toffs and plummed gobs to send their kids back to school. It's not safe enough for us mere mortals to send our kids back to.school. The words goose good and gander come to me.

Come to mind not me.

I'm really interested to see whether Prince George and Princess Charlotte go back.

Which members of the cabinet have reception, Y1 or Y6 aged children?

Genuinely curious.

I suppose statistically JRM is likely to. He’s very quiet these days though.

Most cabinet members have children, so if none of them have them in the relevant year groups it might go some way to explaining why they chose those year groups.

Bollocks. Most of the cabinet are hawks who want to open everything up soonest

I suspect most of the cabinet with school age children send them to private school, and if the school isn't open, there's no point to prove.

But if there are any which are the correct years to be going back and schools are open, then they damn well should be. I'm sure Cummings will magic one poor kid plus minister parent up for a photo op on 1st June

Public schools aren't reopening on a June 1st? Why not? Anyone would think it was unsafe or something.

Most cabinet members have children, so if none of them have them in the relevant year groups it might go some way to explaining why they chose those year groups

Yes, that's exactly how it was decided, then they bribed all the educational experts to agree with them, how clever of you to have sussed out their cunning ruse.

Eton is staying closed on June 1st.

The inverse snobbery on this thread is horrendous. Wouldn’t be tolerated the other way round

For Christ’s sake. Plenty of private schools are reopening.

Eton is staying closed because a) it’s a secondary school (which haven’t been told to open) and b) it’s a boarding school which would make distancing impossible.

Plenty of private primary schools are opening, private secondary schools are shut. Exactly the same as state school. YABU

The inverse snobbery on this thread is horrendous. Wouldn’t be tolerated the other way round

Oh but it is. It just isn't articulated.

private secondary schools are shut. Exactly the same as state school. YABU

Incorrect.

I don't think it's much of a valid argument to base anything you want to do on what a cabinet minister might do.

The inverse snobbery on this thread is horrendous. Wouldn’t be tolerated the other way round

If the those in charge have told us to send our children back to school but aren't sending their own children, then surely that's hypocrisy.

Eton is staying closed because a) it’s a secondary school (which haven’t been told to open) and b) it’s a boarding school which would make distancing impossible.

Whereas four and five year olds will socially distance flawlessly and no one will pick them up if they fall down.

OP
Where did you read that no private schools are opening?

Can you share the source please?

How do we know cabinet members aren’t sending their kids back? Have they said?
Our nearest private school is definitely reopening 1st June. One of my best friends is deputy head.

OP, STOP TALKING SHIT. My DC’s go to a private school. It is currently open for key worker children (prep and senior). We have received notification of a phased return beginning with nursery, reception, year 1 and year 6 on 1 June, plus “face to face” for 10 and 12 in line with Govt guidelines. Of course Eton is remaining closed, it is a boarding only school. No boarders will be returning to my DC’s school for the time being. For a start, many of them come from overseas and would have to deal with travel and quarantine restrictions.