Going back to school

[Clairaloulou]

Is there anyone on here not sending their child back to school?

Nah no-one.

There are many, many threads on this already OP.

Oh sorry I didn't know

well im not

but we have been home educating for 5 years anyway

Don't worry op, one more won't hurt!

I assume you are thinking of not returning?

Are you ok @Clairaloulou? Are you considering not sending your DC back?

Yes I'm not sure what to do. My son has brittle asthma and I have heart failure, asthma, no spleen etc, and we both had to shield. I'm clinically more vulnerable than he is, but it's just me and him, no other support, I'm all he has and vice versa. I really don't know what to do for the best. He has dyslexia and dysgraphia and really struggles academically, and getting him to do any work during lockdown was difficult, so missing school is really not good. But on the other hand wed by wiped out if we caught it. I really don't know what to do. He's 11, in 2nd year of middle school. The head is ringing me on fri.

@TAKESNOSHITSHIRLEY

💐💐💐 For you. That sounds so stressful. I have heard of people in similar situations deciding to homeschool for the first few weeks/half term so as to have some time to see what happens with the opening of schools. Maybe you could try that?

If you choose to homeschool for a bit there are lots of great online resources for dyslexic children. My DS 11 is homeschooled (not covid related) and we use the Nessie homeschool pack (among other things) which is great.

I'm sending mine back but none of us are vulnerable or shielding. I'm not sure what I'd do in your situation...very difficult. Hope you manage to sort something

I'm technologically illiterare so don't know how to do links when using my phone but....if you go to the cases section of the government's Covid dashboard you can pull up a really good interactive map showing the distribution of confirmed cases across the whole country down to ward level. It might be helpful in making decisions. For example cases are incredibly rare across my whole region (eastern side of Yorkshire), which would inform my decision in your shoes.

DS isn't returning. School are recording it as a prolonged medical absence and referring him to the LEAs medical absence team. He has an EHCP to we are going into the emergency review process. I'll be looking for a change of setting to a full time internet school.

BUT DS worked well remote learning during lockdown and it really benefited his physical wellbeing. Homeschool was never far from the agenda in the first place. I'm also not entirely convinced he will be able to work as an adult so we're not really harming his long term prospects

@SmilingAloe yes that sounds good. I feel like I have to watch and wait a bit more than the average joe.

@SomewhereEast I'm in the south of Huddersfield, so we've been locked down again, and surrounding Barnsley/Wakefield have quite a few cases.