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Kids/school

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CatNotGot · 27/05/2020 05:28

Why parents making lockdown last longer because they won't send their kids to school?!

When shops and stuff open on 15th I'm sure you will be taking your children to local shopping centre but you won't be sending them to school ?
But let's go stand in line for primark and touch everything in there ?
Let's walk through the busy shopping centre ?

Unless you have stayed in this whole time, then you need send your children back to school simple
Life needs to start again! Don't need the summer off

Social distancing in most towns is impossible even when everything was shut god knows what it gonna be like once everywhere open

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godyouareahhhhh · 27/05/2020 07:33

My children haven't been in a shop since lockdown started, I don't know if I will be sending my children back to school yet as I haven't been told any plans. But if I decide not to what's it got to do with you? I'm still working from home and not on furlough. Concentrate on your own children and life and stop making yet another thread on this.

AJPTaylor · 27/05/2020 07:34

I find in life it is futile to criticise other parents choices over things such as this.
If they can cope with their kids at home and have weighed up the evidence it's up to them entirely.

glitterelf · 27/05/2020 07:43

Oh the assumptions and parent shaming. You do not know everyone's personal circumstances nor should you assume that you do. Parent shaming needs to stop, you do what you thinks best for your family and let others do what they think is best for theirs.

CoronaMoaner · 27/05/2020 07:56

Our school is only taking them back 2 days a week so you may see us in primark come 15 June but it’s not because I don’t want to send them back to school...

reefedsail · 27/05/2020 08:07

Nothing going to change in September
Classes sizes will be different

That can't be the case. If it is, the kids will have to be on a rota so parents won't have the choice to send them in full time anyway. Much more likely, it will be back to the 'old' normal in September- with extra hand washing.

TooGood2BeTrue · 27/05/2020 08:11

It's much easier to keep a distance from people whilst shopping than it will be for kids when they are at school.

ChablisandCrisps · 27/05/2020 08:13

Its extremely unlikely that anything will be different in September, more likely an influx of pre-fabs will go up for extra classrooms instead. I work in the prison service we have been told education etc cannot resume until at least April next year and strict social distancing will need to remain until then and possibly beyond. Staffing is a nightmare too as there is not enough office space. My office usually has 32 staff but H&S said only 11 can work in there so lots of work looking at that going on at the minute now too. This isnt going away any time soon.

SimonJT · 27/05/2020 08:16

I won’t be sending my son to school as I am in a few very vulnerable groups, I haven’t been to any shops throughout lockdown, after 15th June I won’t be going to any shops etc until we have had low infection rates for a while.

If I was in good health he would be going to school.

LavenderLilacTree · 27/05/2020 08:21

Because it's not safe for the teachers, TAs etc.
They will be in an enclosed space with prolonged close contact with 15 others for hours on end, no social distancing, often performing intimate care, no masks allowed or PPE.
The majority children will be fine missing some school , vulnerable children continue to go to school.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/12154266

NiknicK · 27/05/2020 08:25

I’m one of those parents who’ve chosen not to send my dc back school I can assure you I won’t be taking them to the shops. My dc haven’t even been into the supermarket since just before lockdown began and I’ve been ordering all of their summer clothes online, so at least for now we’d have no reason to hit the shops. Apart from coming on walks with me and their dad and a couple of bike rides my kids haven’t been out so I can’t understand your logic to be honest.

NiknicK · 27/05/2020 08:30

Oh and as for doing the school run, yes I’m sure that’s a reason, honestly! As a rule I don’t generally lay in and certainly throughout lockdown I’ve been up between 6 and 7am a good couple of hours before my youngest wakes up and then my teenager after that. I’m currently working from home and my employer has approved this until end of July/beginning of August so my kids don’t need to go back and for the sake of 6 weeks I do not see the point.

middleager · 27/05/2020 08:52

OP, in case you haven't noticed, the schools aren't open to most children.

Nobody knows what the plan will be for September, but our MAT is working on the basis of only part-time for secondaries here.

My children haven't been in a shop since February. They can't stand shopping either.

Fedup21 · 27/05/2020 09:00

The parents I see round here (who I know) who have been doing just as they want for weeks are the ones who are happily sending their Kids back to school next week. Which will be nice for the other children and school staff to be exposed to.

The ones who aren’t sending their kids back yet, have been sticking to the rules and don’t want them at risk.

Let parents make up their own minds-that’s their right. I don’t have any children in any of the returning year groups so am not in this position, but I wouldn’t send mine back yet if I did.

ChablisandCrisps · 27/05/2020 09:36

the ones who are happily sending their Kids back to school next week. Which will be nice for the other children and school staff to be exposed to Most people sending kids to school are doing so as they have no choice really I imagine. Many professions and industries mean than you cannot work from home so its school and nursery or not working. Not much of a choice is it. Its certainly not because they don't give a shit about their kids ffs!

ChablisandCrisps · 27/05/2020 09:39

Sadly only reception aged childs school is only opening 3 hours a day and it has to be family who drop off and pick up so we will have to keep paying £1400 a month for a nanny so that my husband and i can keep our jobs as we are key workers who cannot work from home. £1400 is over 2/3 of my salary before anyone has a go and says the only people who have nannies are rich

Aragog · 27/05/2020 09:50

OST people with young children I know haven't been taking their children supermarket shopping and have no intention of taking the, shopping.

Our city centre is pretty empty, even now things are being eased. More people re out and about walking certainly, but it's still social distancing wherever we've been.

You don't know everyone's circumstances so you don't know if those children would be better staying at home or going into school. It's not a simple decision at all. For some families it's actually a fairly tricky one, and can be somewhat of a balancing act.

Concentrate on what you're doing. Let others make their own choices over this.

Aragog · 27/05/2020 09:53

so can spend all summer in parks while parents drink and lay in

Ah. Just a toady thread then!

Aragog · 27/05/2020 10:03

Goady even

Coffeekisses · 27/05/2020 10:05

The schools won’t cope unless a certain % of parents (probably 50%) choose to keep their children at home.

I have a year 3 also and will be at work from 7am on 1st June. My working from home other half can’t really spend half an hour away from his phone/computer to take our reception child to school while our y3 waits around awkwardly with him at the school gate. It’s easiest for us to keep the little one off (and we know it helps the school).

I wouldn’t dream of taking them in a shop and I am the only one in the family who has been out to the supermarket (once a fortnight) since lockdown began.

Flowersinthewild · 27/05/2020 10:34

@CatNotGot nope I will not be taking my child
to the shops at all. My child has been between 2 house the whole of lockdown transported by car. Not been on any walks even. So no my child won’t be in shops either. If the schools are open full time in September my child will be there. I think you are wrong to assume everyone will be rushing to the shops with their kids.

mrsspooky · 27/05/2020 10:43

Why would people take their kids shopping? Mine wont be, Il do the same as in lock down. My kids are very happy homeschooling and learning nonstop, they enjoy it. We are in no rush to go back and school have already said they wont be doing the curriculum at school but concentrating on teaching social distancing and hand washing etc and the new rules and routines of how schools will work. School will be completely different to before and teachers will be stressed trying to make it fit in to the new normal. School is needed for some and not needed for others, some kids will be happier in school, some wont be, its an individual thing as every family is different. Id rather they took all the teaching outside then we'd go back but in no rush just now while they are learning well and happy. But I definitely wont be rushing to shops instead, why would that happen?

CovidicusRex · 27/05/2020 12:56

You need to stop telling other people what to do simple

tinseltitsandlittlegits · 27/05/2020 13:00

I'm actually getting fed up now of other parents deciding what's best for my kids! You do what's best for you ours and I will do what's best for mine op 👍🏻

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