School 'Social Justice manager' knocking on my door. Confused. Why ??

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I'm in Scotland. So this is the second week of schools being back.

We (me and DC and P) stay with MIL, DC Grandmother. She had part of a lung removed in early March for lung cancer. Multidisciplinary team are considering radiotherapy. She also has heart problems. Still in her 60s.

I'm extremely wary of sending DC back to school, so I didn't. I emailed their schools, which was received as I got a reply from both, the high school one saying they'll be in contact.

I've had a couple of phone calls from a withheld number yesterday and today but I'm WFH so was busy.

Door knocked earlier, was working so didn't answer. Again just now. I don't usually answer unless I'm expecting someone (door faces onto street and get a lot of sellers and religion people).

Looked out the window as they were leaving and my eldest DC recognised them as the Social Justice manager of their school.

What is this all about ??

Am I in some kind of trouble ??

Why would a school do this ??

I'm going to phone them up tomorrow but just wondered why they would be knocking my door ??

**Additionally, not sending your child in for a month and giving them books/internet is not homeschooling. Homeschooling needs to either be done properly - with structure, adult supervision and support, proper resources and work - or not at all. You dont seem to have an adequate set up so even if the school sends work home etc it is not something that can go on indefinitely, and every day they arent in school is another day they will be falling behind their peers. Also, the school might understand an initial reluctance to send your child in but they cant hold their place nor can they expect teachers to create homeschool resources for your child on a rolling monthly basis until you are ready to take up the place again. What happens if at the end of the month you still dont want to send them? Or the month after that? Or the month after that? The school can't wait indefinitely for you to send your child back (at which point I can guarantee that no matter how much work they are doing at home they will be behind their peers) and so they need to talk to you to decide whether you are sending them back or applying to homeschool. They cant be kept in limbo and you cant pick and choose what you want to do with your children's education.

@Lightsonnobodyshome This.

If the OP feels that she can provide a good standard of homeschooling then so be it. All I was doing was pointing out the fact that there is more to adequate homeschooling than leaving the kids alone with a pile of textbooks. This might not be an issue if the OP has a good structure and system for homeschooling that involves more than this.

Well it looks to them like you are hiding something. So I’d get in touch with ASAP if I were you

We need to go back to more letters. I was n the HMRC website today and yet again I confirmed I want communications by post. Ditto the bank - I keep having to turn back on paper statements.

Unfortunately, due to covid, the post is often slow and erratic (where I live anyway). IMO text and email are the way forward.

@wowwe RTFT, you can now read just OPs posts to make it quicker

OP well done for remaining so strong. You are so not being unreasonable to ask for and expect some leeway with returning to school given the unique situation of a pandemic that we are living in. I'm amazed at how many posters would happily throw your MIL under the bus for the sake of getting your child back into school sooner. I think the legal nature of school attendance to maintain a place is BONKERS given that it doesn't take into account vulnerable members of the household.

I was quite harsh in my previous post. I apologise for that.

Best of luck with everything