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?

YANBU to send your children back to school whenever you damn well please but YABU to suggest that there is some conspiracy for the cabinet to keep theirs off because they secretly know that actually children are at massive risk of dying from covid, or whatever it is you’re trying to insinuate.

The risk of sending children back to school is it raises R0, not that the vast majority of individual children will be at risk.

If you are in the hugely privileged position of having a choice to send them back or not then just be grateful for that. Many aren’t.

DS’s private school is opening on June 1st. Not all children are going in but DS is. Trouble is virtual school had been so fabulous a lot of parents are thinking they won’t bother if they have other children in years not going back🤣

Can’t see the problem; schools in Europe are opening and they never closed in Sweden. Goady, ignorant post by OP.

My DC’s private school is opening on June 1st. My Y6 will be going back and I will be taking up my key worker place for my Y3.

Good friend of mine is departmental head at a local independent, they are going back for years 10 and 12 on June first

My kids are at two different private schools, both opening on June 1 for years r, 1 and 6. They have been banned from exercising any discretion and taking back other years.

Are you going to go accept that your assertion about private schools is wrong OP?

As I understand it you don't have to send your children back anyway, aren't fines suspended for now?

The cabinet's children will almost certainly be at private schools that are still delivering a full timetable of online education. We should be more cross that their children arent missing out educationally but they think it is fine if state children do!

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.

Eton is also doing this:

Accommodation for key workers -
^We have offered accommodation, free of charge, within some of our now empty boarding houses for adult key workers, where they need alternative accommodation because their own families are self-isolating."

Support for key worker and vulnerable children -
We have opened our doors to support key workers from our local area by offering a structured programme of activities, free of charge, during the day for their children aged 5-13.The scheme also includes vulnerable children. As part of this programme we are preparing food for those on free school meals and delivering this to local schools.

I am fairly sure most of the schools posts are made by bored pupils looking to wind up teachers and parents. This one nails it.

The OP has a bright future as leader of the NUS. He/she can ban privately educated students from lecture theatres to create safe spaces for The working class.

Is the OP coming back?!

Private schools have already been saying they won’t go back until safe, so most MPs won’t be sending the kids back.

Private schools have already been saying they won’t go back until safe

Which ones? Certainly not all of them. As you can see from this thread, many are opening for years 6, 1 and reception.

@edwinbear have you used the key worker space before? I'm in a similar situation. year R child going back hopefully in June 1st. I really want to send my y2 child back for 2 days a week so I can catch up on work. However I've spent so long keeping them at home it feels really against the grain! We've not used it yet as have just about coped with kids at home. However we're at breaking point just before heading into our business silly season.

OP stop talking shite. Our private school is opening up. Places like Eton etc won't because they break up for summer less than 6 weeks time!!!

Him sorry op but you're talking absolute shit. My DCs private prep school is planning on opening for the assigned years on 1st June.

If you're taking about the Erin article it's a secondary school (or senior school) and no senior schools are opening.

So YABVU

Regardless of what happens to the Cabinet’s children, until the house of Commons is full of MPs sitting close together, I will not accept that schools are safe for our children.

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But all the evidence shows TrickyD that children are at far less risk from this virus than adults. So it’s not really a comparison.

Private day school. Back June 1 for R, 1 and 6. Secondary site open for keyworker children only. Totally daft assumption op.

Op please call you direct us to the source that claims MOs aren't sending their R, Y1 and Y6 children back to school if they open on 1st June??

@MorganKitten source?

Parliament is chockablock full of obese elderly men - the most at risk group for covid and there are 600 of them in the same room.
Not quite the same as your average primary school. Of course you can keep your children off as long as you want. Just deregister them and home educate.

Regardless of what happens to the Cabinet’s children, until the house of Commons is full of MPs sitting close together, I will not accept that schools are safe for our children

Why would you be basing any decisions on the comparisons of apples and oranges?

Because it is not a case of comparing apples and oranges but of Icebergs and Little Gems

Your post TerrapinStation, is inane.
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Drivingdown, so you are happy to ignore the risks to adult teachers? Dispensable presumably, unlike MPs.

SorrelBB, not all teachers are young and some are obese. They deserve as much protection as those in the House of Commons.

No of course I’m not. I’m just pointing out that your comparison doesn’t work.