To think this procrastinating about school reopening is going to cause more deaths and long term issues than CV

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Credit due to all the schools that have worked hard and found inventive ways to open this week. I know of some that have sent positive messages to parents and managed to reassure them that their dc won’t be traumatised by the experience.
What’s preventing all schools doing this? Our local primary has sent an email basically telling parents they will be committing murder if their dc step anywhere near school. Unsurprisingly they’ve decided they’re not ready to open yet. This is a modern school, all classrooms have doors to outside and are large and airy. The deputy head’s dc has diabetes and I believe she doesn’t want to open because of her personal circumstances.
AIBU to think schools are not thinking about children and the negative impact this is bound on thousands. I believe many will never recover from this.

Sorry I disagree. For some children it will be difficult and those children need to be prioritised. Schools and social services need to work to protect and support this families. But I have lost 2 friends now who had children. Those kids are suffering the loss of their parents. That has fucked up their childhoods immeasurably.

Our primary is not open yet and I’m very glad. There’s nothing in the classrooms for the little ones at all. They have to get up every 20 minutes and wash their hands. I’m happy homeschooling and it feels like the best decision for us, especially since the government are careering from one bad decision to the next. I do not trust them.

The decision to remain closed won’t be because of the deputy head teacher and their child.

AIBU to think schools are not thinking about children

Whaaaat?! Don't be so ridiculous! It is precisely because of their thinking about the safety and well-being of the children and their wider families some schools have not yet opened more widely. That and the fact that many school buildings are not designed for the new measures in place. Oh, and staffing issues.

But yes, you go ahead and spread the unfounded rumour that your school's DH is deliberately blocking opening due to their own circumstances. You have no IDEA if that's the case and it's pretty low to repeat it (even if it is playing a part).

@canigooutyet who makes the decision then if not the heads? It’s not the parents. There’s plenty around me that are keen for dcs to get back to normal.

Why would children have to get up and wash their hands every 20 minutes??

When a lot of medics are shouting that it's too much all at once , when teachers haven't been provided with the evidence on which schools reopening is based, when even government ministers say people need to make their own choices, it's hardly surprising that there are differences of opinion as to the best thing to do

Could be they don’t have enough resources for everyone to have their own. Classroom sizes. Class might need more than one member of staff.

I don’t see the point in any of them opening at the moment. A couple of kids all sitting far apart, no sharing, constantly washing their hands, them arriving and leaving at different times, the cleaning etc.

@whenthejoyreturns the heads will liaise with the governors.

We need to get back to work , end of.In order to get that done we need the schools to open.

Some positive thinking and can do not can't do is required

I won't be sending mine in.

I watched yesterday's briefing and Jenny Harries said playgrounds were too dangerous to re-open

“It’s not a good place to be at the moment so I think not in the immediate future,” she said.

Due to the danger of transmission when children from “multiple households” meet and swap germs. Hmmm a but like a primary school then...

Schools are a massive hotbed for germ spreading, any parent knows this.

I honestly don’t believe schools are only thinking of the children’s safety. There’s a lot of political point scoring going on. Some schools are brilliant and they’re fantastic. There’s no way not all schools could have started wider opening today in some capacity even for one year group.

Check your school, here the governors also have a say with how the school is run. The local education department also have a say.

The government own guidelines prevent a lot of schools from opening.

Many new schools look fab from the outside but like usual no one thought about the interior when designing. Doors leading straight in, but terrible for air circulation. Odd layouts, one has all the toilets in a centralised area

@Coronabored

Wow you must be so unlucky to have lost 2 friends of parent age *@yester*. The odds must be more than winning the lottery. What area where they in just out of curiosity?

I don't know anything about Yester, but the school my dd goes to two parents (unrelated) have died from Coronavirus. So I guess that's lottery winning odds too?

I honestly don’t believe schools are only thinking of the children’s safety.
You're quite right, they are thinking of staff safety too.

Any parent wanting to keep their children off school that’s your choice but many want schools to start reopening.
Lot’s of schools have done a brilliant job in making it sound so awful no parent would want to inflict it on their children. My local primary is a prime example. Shame on them.

Or maybe they could just be telling the truth?

No political point scoring.

Have a look at countries that have less deaths per day than the U.K., who have had to close schools down with strict restrictions.

Many with lower cases than the U.K. still haven’t opened their schools.

Schools don’t need to open to get people working. It’s not childcare. People could create their own bubbles. Hire nannies, babysitters etc.

Even if they do manage to stay open for the day, doesn’t mean they will stay open. We need to be making our own childcare arrangements just like we do in the holidays, when they are sick etc.

@whenthejoyreturns I agree with you

Parents could volunteer to keep the couple of classes open. Shouldn’t be hard to manage 15 kids and keep them away from each other.

YANBU - my mum was at primary school during WW2. She and her classmates carried their gas masks to school each day. Frequently they had to pile into the air raid shelter when the sirens went off. They'd often been disturbed in the night by having to go in the Anderson shelter When the air raids warnings went off. They just got on with it and I wish teachers, parents and students would just show some resilience and do the same thing. My Yr10 DD is raring to go should her school open on 15th June.

It's a no win situation for schools I would hate to be a headteacher at the moment.
Either they do what the government asks but then will take the blame if kids or staff get ill or they follow the science and have the daily mail on their backs

The thread wasn't from each other in the war. You wouldn't be safer from German bombs by staying in your own home and not going to school. I don't think the analogy works at all.