SAHP - BU to send DC back to school?

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Would I be unreasonable to send my Year R child back to school even though i am a SAHP?

DC is quite robust and adaptable so I do think they would enjoy being back despite the changes, and with two younger siblings to take care of at home we are barely doing any schooling.

However, I don't think we've had the virus and I worry about DS catching it and bringing it home. We are not high risk though.

I don't know what to do for the best.

What virus related reason could there possibly be for removing artwork from walls?

I think its probably so they can properly clean the walls

Our LEA have now confirmed 15th for R&1, 29th for 6. Nobody else this year. It's a disgrace. They are failing our children and gaining in their duty to provide an education. Shame on them.

I'm all for pushing to get as many kids back as possible, but logistically we have to acknowledge it's a nightmare. School funding cuts mean that there is not a large pool of additional teachers, nor TAs (not that TAs should be responsible for teaching classes anyway, but at least they might be able to supervise online learning via Oak Academy or Bitesize videos for older groups). Many teachers won't be able to come in due to vulnerability. Other schools lack space. In Denmark they've done things like rent large sports venues, but the UK is not used to that kind of setting, again lacks funding and could also have troubles with transport there.

It's not as simple as announcing that schools are all open.

@upthewolves
Why must you also come on and spread false and inflammatory information in order to put others off their decision? Are you worried that actually other people's children will benefit from it and your child might lose out? If your child isn't going back you don't want anyone else's to either?
I want other people to send their dc back if they wish to. What a bizarre comment to make.
The government guidance makes it clear that dc will not be following the national curriculum.

@upthewolves I am not trying to put people off. My post wasn’t sarcastic I genuinely want the poster I asked to come back to the thread say what learning is happening in schools. The government suggest there won’t be learning , if that’s not the case I would like to know so my shielding dc can keep up.
Your posts are a bit aggressive and you misunderstood my intention.

Why shouldn’t there be learning? Mine are learning from the online work at the moment. I think they are being careful though that the children in and out of school have access to the same material.

I think the problem is in the attitudes of the different schools. Some are handling it well, others not so much.

There's no learning going on though. Teachers have admitted it's just bland 'activities' being handed out, the same disconnected 5-minute tasks they're setting the kids at home.

Don’t think this is the case in all schools tbf.

Our reception child will be back full time from the 1st and there’s been no indication they won’t be doing everything they can to catch the children up before the summer holidays. With just 15 kids per class and a teacher and a TA I think they’ve got a fair shot too.

What they have confirmed is that children won’t be socially distancing within their bubble. This scaremongering about reception children being confined to desks all day needs to stop!

Although I do think it’s the luck of the draw and schools are interpreting the guidelines very differently.

Bold fail!!

I’m SAHM but will be keeping my reception aged child home. We are higher risk (although not shielding) but that’s not really the reason. Our school will have a lot of trouble fitting the children in if they’re in smaller class sizes, having to have breaks separately etc. We can keep our child at home, and we’re not worried about the school work (he’ll catch up sometime) so that feels like the right thing to do - one less child for the teachers to try and fit in.

I only work evenings so am in effect a sahp and I will be sending ds to nursery from June 1st. He starts school in September and I want him to experience nursery with some measures in place before attempting school. We are a fit healthy family with no vulnerabilities and I feel confident that nursery wouldn't be opening if they felt it was unsafe. They are not distancing the children within their small bubbles and the staff will not be distancing from the children. Only things like queuing to get in and parents attending etc will be different. My ds is year 3 and school have already as much as said there will be no provision for older years because the Yr1 and R provision will use all their resources.

@Iwillhavetea Come September this virus will have spiked or settled massively. They also will have to have all children back by that point. So I'll send her when it's more of a normality.

I’d love you to be right on this but sadly I don’t think anything will be back to normal by September. There’s a lot of talk of ‘blended learning’ emerging and I think it’s becoming highly apparent that many schools will only be able to teach children part time next year if we still need to stick to these bubbles. A lot of learning will need to happen at home.

I'm a sahm and I'll be sending mine back as soon as they're allowed. My dd cried this morning because she misses school and her friends so much.

I do think your being unreasonable. You are at home so there is no reason to send your child at the moment. Our school have told us that the nursery, reception and year 1 children will not have free play, all other stuff taken out of the classroom and each child will have to sit at their own desk for the duration of the day. I really don't think that is a good environment for such young children. And it will not be anything like a normal school classroom or day.

For those who need to work I 100% understand why their children need to go. Or if the child is struggling with being at home.

That is your school though. Not all schools.

Ours will not be social distancing within their own little class bubbles. The key worker children who have been in for 9 weeks haven't been social distancing.

Children will be playing outside in our local school. Play times will be staggered so that each bubble is outside at different times. The key worker children who have been going in all along have had lots of outdoor playtime.

@ilovetea09 why are they doing that? The guidelines do not demand it. Our school, like many many others on here, are offering a warm, welcoming environment, with lots of learning, bubbles of 15 with no social distancing within the bubble. My DD will be matched with friends and they have a lovely curriculum planned with lots of outdoor play and packed lunch picnics outside.

Honestly, if I were you, the fact your school is putting in such drastic draconian measures and basically sacrificing the mental wellbeing of reception children when it is not required, I would be finding a new school for September or whenever you are choosing to resend them. Clearly the children's wellbeing is not their priority.

@upthewolves I completely agree.

@upthewolves our school is part of an academy that runs 19 schools. They have all been told the same. The bubble of children also have to social distance including at playtime. No child is allowed to touch the teacher at any time.
But to be honest with you, I wouldn't be happy if they were allowing them to not socially distance either. I don't want 15 kids all touching my child at the moment. Then possibly bringing the virus back to me. I'm in the clinically vulnerable group

YWBU to keep your child socially isolated if they have the chance not to be, social isolation increases the risk of harm in children almost certainly at least as much as covid (*). Even if the children were physically distanced by 2m, they would still be less socially distanced than never seeing their peers at all because they are at home.

(*) It's difficult to say for sure of course as despite social isolation being very bad for children in all studies, the only kids who are normally socially isolated are because of illness or abuse and it might be that things are different without those, I'm not sure why though.

I'd love to keep my 3dc at home but me and dh are key workers and have worked all the way through....luckily my mum has looked after them when working as didn't want to send them in but as we are shifts feel we will have to send them tho we are seeing how things pan out

I'll be sending my DCs in as soon as schoolis avaliable to them.

They need company of their own age group. They are fortunate that they are close in age and interests, but they still need their own friends

Last night I had a 7yo crying on me that he needs new friends because it is now 2 months since he played with his friends. Zoom just doesn't work for him, he needs to be doing with his friends, not just talking at them in 2D.

My DCs are not learning well at home. They can not concentrate. They don't give a toss that I'm a qualified teacher with over a decade of experience, I'm their mummy and they need an impartial teacher and their peers. Ds1 has SENs anyway and DS2 copies his moods.

They need an appropriate educational space and they need their peers.

As to risks to their wellbeing, I'll be stopping, looking and listening before we cross the road as usual.
I'd rather risk exposure to the virus in unfavourable warm, sunny weather when they're well dosed on sunny vitamin D than in the winter term with the usual round of colds, flu, norrovirus and other random viral crap.