Why has return to School has been much better than people thought it would be ?

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Prior to the return to school, there was a feeling in the media and on here that it would be awful for the children, sparse classrooms, social distancing and bubbles would all affect the children negatively? Now it seems as though the reverse has happened. Children are reported to be coming out of school beaming, having loved their time to reconnect with peers. Aibu to think that this is only because of the amazing effort put in by those heads of schools and teachers who are doing their best, and not because it was a case of “ see there was nothing to worry about after all”. The worry in my view wasn’t so much about the children but about teachers being exposed to the virus by children. Aibu to think that some parents feel that now the kids are back and happy there’s an element of “ and they all lived happily ever after” at play here. This isn’t over and I’m not one of the doom sayers. I’m desperate for this thing to be over but I can’t help but feel some parents are being a little over optimistic after the first day? ( I’m not a teacher by the way.

Short answer - it has been better than expected as it has been sorted by school staff and not the government.

We have yet to see any fall out on a wider scale of bubbles isolating and schools closing. We had to isolate one child with a high temp on day 1 of reopening and also have a member of staff isolating with high temp on day 2. Hopefully tests for these people will come back quickly.

FFS the more contact people have the more likely covid is to spread. It’s just common sense

but as the parents are in contact with their own children, how do you think it will possibly make sense....

added to the fact that once families have agreed to leave each of their children in close contact with 10 to 15 other children, they have no reason to deny meeting with friends. If your child spends 6 hours next to little Karen, you'd be silly to refuse to speak with Karen's parents for a few minutes or even have them over.

Four possible reasons:

1. Every contact increases risk
2. Household members will have the virus at different times so there would be a time lag. So Tarquin had it 2 weeks ago but mum is still infectious.
3. Children are believed to be less likely to catch it, so mum may have it and tarquin wont.
4. Mum could have a higher viral load than Tarquin do be more infectious.

It’s pretty basic common sense really

common sense is that there's no such thing as a magic bubble, and when you accept that there's no risk for your children you follow it through. Or you at least acknowledge that you send your kids despite the risk because they are spending hours next to the children whose parents commute, had friends staying over, had symptoms but hide them with calpol...

prosper there are also risks to keeping kids locked up without being able to see their friends for 6 months. The whole of our lives right now are one big experiment whatever you choose to do. There are risks to going to school and risks to not going to school.

prosper I accept those risks. I am not naive. I know there is a small risk of my child catching CV at school. I also know there is a small risk when DH goes to work or I go to the supermarket.

In a way I have carried out my own families risk assessment and determined that they are acceptable to us.

I do understand that other people would come to a different decision and actually if certain criteria e.g. medical conditions were different then I would probably have made a different decision.

I think there are risks that this whole bizarre situation will negatively define some of our less resilient kids lives in ways we do not know and there is no way to tell whether you have one of these kids. I hope that my kids are past that stage but I do worry about how it will affect the infant stage kids long term. Infant aged kids that are too scared to go outside and do normal things for fear of catching an illness (can their parents hide their fear) - that worries me and that to me is a bigger risk for that age group that the virus itself - who knows whether my fears are unfounded or not - only time will tell.

"In the schools that are opened, people the most bored and neglected at home are likely to have been the fist sent back in, so school is an improvement for them."

This comment reflects the opposite of what I have seen.

My daughter's school is an indie prep so most parents are highly motivated with regards to their children's education - they are paying a lot for it. 2/3 of her class is in this week.

She was a bit apprehensive about going back but has absolutely loved seeing her friends again and being taught in person rather than over a screen. She is having proper lessons.

We are glad we made the decision to send her back. I do understand that families in different circumstances with regards to health vulnerability will have had a harder decision to make.

Media scaremongering as usual!! My kids are loving school and the teachers have worked so hard and it's paid off.

Prosper.... risk?

The biggest killer of children is not Covid 19 but

"deaths in children age 5 to 14 years:
Accidents (unintentional injuries)
Cancer.
Suicide.
5 Aug 2018
(MedlinePlus Medical )

"In the schools that are opened, people the most bored and neglected at home are likely to have been the fist sent back in, so school is an improvement for them." That has certainky been the case for my sil - I was surprised and so was she!