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

Mine are Year 10 and 12. We are all fit and well. I've been nursing throughout all this. RIsk v benefit they can go back tomorrow for me.

I don't understand why adults in a school cannot socially distance from each other and from the children (wherever possible) but the children be free to mix.

There is a risk to teachers but that risk is not enough to justify this ridiculous situation. If you look at the official data by age group the number of children and teens who have died is beyond minute, something like 33 and it’s not much higher for those in their 20’s. The risk really doesn’t increase a lot until 45 and then it’s still very small. This covers the vast majority of pupils and teachers.

Of course those with known conditions Or living with shielded people shouldn’t be exposed but the risks to most of us simply don’t justify the risks to our children of keeping them home any longer and we do need to get the economy moving and the long term effect of keeping our children out of their normal life is far more severe than the relative risk of this disease to almost anyone under 70

In a heartbeat.

Yes yes yes!

Mine are in KW provision now, no social distancing has been in place. I just want schooling to return to normal though. My daughter is due to start high school in September and if things carry on as they are I just don't see how she will?

What a ridiculous suggestion to start a petition to have schools fully open in September. You are an appalling person. Schools should be open fully if it’s safe enough for all involved, not because someone made a petition! No way is any decision going to be made in schools being open because there’s a bloody petition for them to be open!

@coronabeer23 it’s 16 people have died under 20, 5 under 15, most of those had serious health issues.

Death by age from NHS website

@Boxachocs it’s not silly, people (mostly women) will be loosing there jobs if children aren’t in school. Children need routine, friends a proper education which they’re not getting at home. I will be writing to my MP and I will start a petition.

Yes I would.

@Alex50 thank you for that. The deaths are of course a tragedy but they further support my argument that this business with schools is ridiculous. We need to be sharing that data, not just top level numbers.

I do understand that school staff have concerns about their health and that of their family. I don't know their details and can't/shouldn't make a decision about my children based on somebody else's risk. I trust the school to make those decisions.

My children are my responsibility.

Covid is not going away. We can manage it with measures such as social distancing. If we relaxed all the measures, it would probably be difficult. So some are being relaxed. I want that to include the important ones like school.

The risk to my kids from Covid is extremely low. The benefit from school is huge. I want them in school.

I won't get what I want if transmission is deemed too high and the risk to staff too high.

So we need to socially distance elsewhere, to give the capacity for some relaxing of the rules.

The risk is tiny and the chance of social distancing is zilch anyway.

I agree all this nonsense sending your child to school will kill them 🙄 The next argument on here is children will have long lasting health issues even if they have no symptoms, yet they have no evidence to back this up, there is far to much scaremongering on mumsnet.

Yes.

I’d send mine back tomorrow if I could and I’d prefer no social distancing (primary age kids). I don’t know anyone who has had COVID and we dont have any vulnerable grandparents so the risk for us is less than dying in a car crash.

Everyone write to your MP let’s get schools fully open for September. All this nonsense that most parents don’t want to send their children to school, from the votes on here and most people I speak to that is completely wrong.

Yes, I’d have no problem with this.

I’d send mike back now if I could. The risk to children is tiny. The risk to my husband and me is tiny. I won’t, of course, have my mum pick them up as she used too, as she’s vulnerable.

Mine has been at school every day apart from the last half term. All through Easter etc. Not a whiff of COVID and all the teachers and kids are still alive and kicking.

If you have social distancing and / or other protective measures in all other work places school staff should also have suitable measures to protect themselves.

School staff I know are not so much worried about dying more that there is a risk they will be very ill for weeks and weeks with symptoms. Children do receive so many benefits from being in school but we need to think about the whole picture and consider the adults in schools and wider community in any decisions we make too.

Yes. DD is not coping at all well with the lack of structure & change from her regular routine, but resists most of our attempts to provide regular homeschooling. She is suspected to have autism but we are still waiting for a diagnosis.

There are 66 million people in the UK and around 40,000 have died. According to one research paper the mortality rate was around 1.6% and this would mean we should have had 1056000 deaths and we didn't. Every year around 26,000 die from seasonal flu. So around 15,000 more deaths from COVID, this was obviously reduced by lock down but I do feel it really is time to get back to a more normal life.

It is very sad for those and their families that lost lives but this can't continue for much longer. Unfortunately money does play a huge part in our lives and this lock down, and the length it has gone on for, has been very destructive to out economy.

@Alex50
There's a template letter to MPs on here which might be useful to you.
www.usforthem.co.uk/letter-to-mp

@Takingabreakagain thank you for that, I’ll send it later today.