I am feeling rather (irrationally?) irritated by those people who are either stay at home parents, or furloughed, or otherwise not affected and choosing to keep their kids at home. Totally their choice but I get wound up that we don't really have that choice (unless we want to work 12 hour days AND homeschool hmm).
My primary aged child will most likely be staying home once his year group is told to return. I feel enormous sympathy for you and your daughter because this whole thing is horrible, but this comment has really annoyed me, because of this but: “otherwise not affected”.
We’re in a position where the decision to keep him home is somewhat easier to make than in other circumstances, but you really need to shift your thinking. No-one with children in a school setting is unaffected by this. We’re all having to make hard, difficult decisions, and every single one of us has been affected up until now, and will continue to be until this is over. You may have been affected in a different way to me, and I may have been affected in a different way to the person down the road to me, and so on, but we have all been affected.
You have no idea why those parents have decided not to send their children, just as they have no idea why you have decided to send yours. They may be desperately wishing they were in a position where they could send their children to school, even under these circumstances, but for whatever reason they can’t. Or their ‘ability’ to keep their children home may actually have come at terrible cost to their family’s financial security. My point is that you don’t know. Just as they don’t know about you.
Try not to be envious. Unless you know for a fact that the people you are envious of are genuinely completely and utterly unaffected. For those people are few and far between amongst typical day to day folk.