Key worker not socially distancing

[HavingAThink2]

My dc started school last week due to myself and dad being key workers. Until then they had been at home with us as I was working from home.

There is a child in the group whoes mum isn't a key worker but obviously there is a reason child is there. Anyway, yesterday mum put pictures on social media of herself at the BLM protest in a large group with not one bit of social distancing.

AIBU to feel really annoyed that she will go home to her child, who wIll then go into school, and while they try to social distance in school, it is not always possible. I work frontline NHS and I am dreading the spike after this

admin, statistics, numbers, all to do with COVID.

Do you pop to peoples houses to gather the data? Your child has posed more of a risk than hers, so you are being ridiculously unreasonable to report her for using her democratic right to protest. I am scared about the implications covid wise actually working frontline, as in leaving the house, but that doesn't mean people should be punished for it.

OP if your husband really is a nurse, your daughter is far more at risk of catching the virus from him than from this other child.

Your husband is more at risk of catching it at work than from your daughter.

The child's mother is at low risk in an outdoor protest anyway.

I don't think you know the difference between frontline and keyworker either. Admin work is not frontline.

If you or your DH are going out to work and your DCs are going to school then they could also potentially transmit the infection to other children at school.

Yes you are being unreasonable.

I am glad other posters have destructed your covert racism.

HavingAThink2
No, we will carry on going to work and will report this parent to school. Hopefully they will put a stop to her child attending.

I fucking hate posts like these. OP posts a question AIBU to be annoyed? Doesn't get the posts they were expecting so come out with ^that.
Why didn't you ask AIBU to report blah blah.....? I knw the answer because you would have even more responses telling you how stupid your logic is.
Do what the fuck you like then.

No, we will carry on going to work and will report this parent to school. Hopefully they will put a stop to her child attending.

Great idea! It's good for the teachers to know more about the parents so they can better understand their pupils and homes.

Parent 1. A parent who needs their child to attend school - goes out of their way to support BLM to create a better world for the next generation. Doesn't complain that other pupils shouldn't be allowed to attend school as she doesn't know their circumstances.

Parent 2. An entitled person who thinks only their children should attend schools and other children are not as important as theirs. They waste teachers' time by complaining to them. They don't know why this child needs to attend school but doesn't care because they are just that selfish.

Also remember it's the child who will miss out, it's not their fault.

NoseyfriendNC
Much more eloquently put than my response!

*I've explained above how many frontline workers are having to work from home because their offices are closed to reduce the risk of spread as much as possible. Social workers, community mental health nurses, community learning disability nurses, Occupational Therapists etc.

Doesn't mean they aren't still going out on visits and doing frontline work where necessary and then going home again to write up case notes etc.

You can be frontline and still be having to work from home. It's not that hard a stretch of thinking to understand that.*

Exactly this 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Also remember it's the child who will miss out, it's not their fault

That’s down to her parents not OP and Not the school

Also what are you even talking about? Loads of children are now back at school/nursery - not just key workers ! So it’s not really up to you who gets to attend and who doesn’t!! Soon even more children will Be back and eventually all the children will be back - will you still be complaining then?

Oh this child should be excluded cus I saw his mum was at a bbq? 😂 ffs

@KaptenKrusty don't be ridiculous and read the full story. A bbq and a big gathering in the form of a protest is very different. L

Whatever - Regardless, you can’t just go to the school and start telling them who can and can’t attend! It doesn’t work like that

You and your husband pose the same risk passing it on to your child as she does at the protest though? Actually your husband is more at risk passing it on to your child

I'm a teacher working with key worker kids and putting my own children at risk in their school in multiple key Worker bubbles so yes the school would want to know because why the hell should I put my family at risk because someone else can't follow the rules? The OP clearly said she wasn't social distancing and there is a big difference between willingly putting others at risk whilst breaking rules and doing so in the line of frontline duty with some level of protections in place. Schools accept children on the basis they are adhering to the rules where possible because they have a duty of care to their staff and the other children. If a parent is wilfully ignoring those rules then yes action can be taken. Same goes for if a parent was known to be breaking the rules in other ways as well. I'd be furious if I found out one of the parents had been doing this. I accept the risks from the children of doctor's etc but I'm not accepting risks that are completely avoidable- it's unfair and reckless of others to expect me to
do so.

Doctors. Damn you autocorrect.