Would you send your dc back to school in September if there was no social distancing?

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I worry about how much longer dc are going to be expected to learn at home considering a lot of them aren't. However, if they're going to have to socially distance I can't really see a way forward.
YABU = No I wouldn't send them without social distancing
YANBU = Yes I would

Sorry, not clear because I was referring to a previous post.

My question was if a child, or several children, or an adult in a school with no SD contracts Covid and tests positive, what should the response be? (School closed, partially closed, child sent home with no further action)

A couple of posters said that the child should be sent home, but no more, because even if other children become ill, it's not serious.

I was asking what should happen to the adults - teachers, TAs etc - who have come into contact with that child. Should they be allowed to self-isolate, since they are at much greater risk of harm?

Yes I would send mine back. They are really missing their friends and the routine and structure of school. I am trying my best to help them with their home learning but I’m not a trained teacher. I fear that if they cannot return by September I will loose my job and that will also have consequences for them.

Yes

[And also at known risk of passing the infection on to others, as cases in e.g. care homes due to asymptomatic carriers illustrate only too well]

Should pupil contacts of the original case who live with vulnerable older relatives or parents / siblings who are vulnerable also be sent home / told to isolate from these vulnerable members of their family? If not, why not?

Can;t see the poll but yes. The risks to children is tiny.

Or does the whole school body book themselves in for a test every time someone in the school tests positive? How quickly would testing capacity be filled up then???

Just when I am about to completely despair of the stupidity of the human race, I stumble across a thread like this.

@CallmeAngelina it's heartening, isn't it? Gives me hope for my child

The risks to children is tiny

Can someone explain to me why it is ONLY the risk to children that people ever refer to when considering whether e.g. there should be social distancing in schools or whether schools should go back?

Why not risks to adults in schools?

Why not risks to others in the community via children?

Is it because those risks are NOT tiny? Because they genuinely don't matter to you? Because you don't want to think about them?

100%

Yes

I would be happy to send child if they were going to be taught not just child minding.

@Mascotte, I suspect you have deliberately misunderstood me.

I mean, if someone comes out and says to my face 'Honestly, I don't care at all for your safety, or that of any other adults in school, or anyone in the community who might be infected via schools. I only care about my child's needs' it might even be better than constantly being airbrushed out of the picture, as if schools ONLY contained children.

Why not risks to adults in schools? Why not risks to others in the community via children?

There are risks to everyone, everywhere getting back to work. If those risks are unacceptable they can quit. Same for teachers.

Sad to see how little people care about teachers' health. I think if this happens, those of you WFH should be expected to get back to the workplace because your lives are not more important.

@cantkeepawayforever
I was referring to the adults - though I think it applies to the children too.
This virus isn't going to just disappear but people's lives can't be on hold forever. Children's education cannot be disrupted indefinitely. And while I understand school is not childcare, people need to go back to work and their working lives have been enabled by the fact that between certain hours of the day their children are at school.

Yes I would send them tomorrow (does that make me one of the "stupid")...

If there were cases/cluster in the school, I guess I would prefer a monitoring system & I guess symptomatic persons stay home but certainly not a default send all kids & staff home.

Doesn't matter what I want... what I want will never happen anyway.

Yes. My dc went back this week. School are attempting to enforce social distancing, but DC have said it is fairly impossible. They are generally staying at more of a distance than normal, but particularly playing outdoors have come closer than 1m distance let alone 2m. That's fine with me.

I'd happily volunteer to help in schools if teachers don't want to be in. I'm a terrible teacher, but I'd be there

Can you please also bear in mind that teachers are now obliged to work until Dec 31st so we have no choice but to comply with whatever we're told we have to do?

And yes, I agree @LaurieMarlow

Mine can go back now with no social distancing!!

There are risks to everyone, everywhere getting back to work.

In most workplaces, workers are being allowed to take some measures to mitigate those risks.

In this thread, you are saying teachers and other adults in schools should not be allowed to take any measures whatever to mitigate the risks that the virus poses to them, for the slightly bizarre reason that the virus poses little risk to the children in their care.....

Yes