If you're tier 4 are you sending your primary DCs in tomorrow?

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(if you have the choice obvs)

We're tier 4 midlands. I've sent DD (6) in whenever the school's been open so far, but today for the first time i'm thinking i might not. I'm feeling a bit panicky. It's not like me.

I want her to go to school, she needs to and she wants to, but i want her, us (and the school staff) to be safe. I'm thinking of finding a reason to keep her off for a week or 2 to see what happens. We're in a village and there is v.little social distancing going on.

Anyone else dithering? What will you do?

I wouldn’t be sending kids in. It’s absolutely not safe. Do not believe BJ for one second he is the king of flip flop dithering master of reaction dunce of pro action.

I don't think anyone was asking for advice.

Inset day and am half expecting the issue to be resolved for me when Boris does a u turn. It's been a fortnight, we are due one right?

We’ll be sending ours - youngest tested positive at the end of November so shouldn’t get it again for a little while (and while she may be able to transmit, she doesn’t go anywhere other than school as Tier 4, and I WFH) and eldest was exposed due to a case in her class at the same time but didn’t show any symptoms. School have portrayed an air of confidence throughout in handling covid and I trust them to only proceed if they feel comfortable doing so.

We re tier 4 and both of mine start back Tuesday. I'm not keeping them at home because this virus could be around for another year!

Our school starts back Wednesday, and DS will be going back. He had to regardless as we are both critical workers (or whatever they’re calling us now), but I would choose to send him as he loves school and is thriving there. Back during lockdown he went in for childcare, and although more fortunate than most in that he got interaction with kids his age, it was sad to see how much he missed learning.

We went from tier 3-4. But we've had no cases in Ds nursery or DD primary school. I'll be sending them both for now. I was reluctant but keeping them off when all their other classmates will be in is damaging too in my opinion. I'm sort of hoping they close so I don't have to make the decision

Ours are closed, and I don't have kids in school, but if I did... I would be very tempted to say they'd been in contact with a positive case and needs to be off for 10 days. I don't know if I actually would, though!

Probably depends where I was. Rural area, low case rate and fairly small school= would feel better than a large, overcrowded inner city school.

Tier 4. Yes

I'm sending the one with significant SEN to their special school. Keeping the younger one home from their early years setting. The risk to the former in staying home is much greater than the risk to the latter, they regressed a scary amount in the last lockdown and we only just got them back.

Keeping mine off. Tier 4 not london.

Schools werent ever "safe" but now its the main place the virus is spreading.

Im CV so worried about catching it.

I think schools will want those sayin they have "symptoms" to get tests and come in. Ive been honest but worried we'll be fined 😔

i am actually t3 but im not sending my dd whos 9 in for at least the nest week. my reasons for this are im a carer for an elderly parent with quite a lot of health issues, i also have to do the odd bit of care for a PIL who is severe asthmatic and copd.
part of my decision is also based on the noise heard NY eve and the pics i have seen on fb, parties, big groups and that, and the people in these pics are all friends and parents of children at the same school.
we have already had around 10 bubbles closed since oct in a school of 300
i know a lot wont agree with my choice, DH does, but its my choice. ill see how things stand on the 11th when dd1 goes back

Yes. For my children the risk of missing school/education is higher than the risk of Covid to them (or me). Although I'm more anxious than I was last year, it does feel much more likely we are going to get it now whereas last year I felt so removed from it all, but still, we are young and healthy and have no reason to fear it any more than any other illness they pick up at school, so they must go.

Yes, Tier 4 in the NW. Rates here are the same as they were for much of last term, they're actually lower than late October.

No, tier 4 and don't feel the risk is worth it. Will review in a week or two.

Tier 4 Wales here, with very high cases, the rates peaked before Christmas and have dropped a little, but still higher than most the rest of the U.K.

We’ve got a week of home learning for all children this week whilst Drakeford reassesses, pupils due to return from the 11th, but I’m not sure they will. Much more sensible approach for now. Don’t envy the decision making.

Live in Gloucester. Four year old is going back as planned on Tuesday.

Oh, and since he started in September, there hasn't been a single case in his school.

We're in an area with the new variant, so thankfully our schools closed til 18th. It's spreading like wildfire so I'm not confident the school's closing will make a great deal of difference this time. In as much as cases have exploded in our workplace in the two weeks the kids have actually been off school. We've had more than half, possibly up to two thirds of our colleagues off either with Covid or told to self isolate just in the past week, in comparison to before Xmas where we had virtually no absences.

I don’t think there’s any need to specify ‘Tier 4 not London’. No schools are opening there and will likely remain shut for weeks.

Ours are shut until the 18th jan . Tier 4
Remote learning from the 5th . That’s the primary and secondary school . Google classroom

I think what gets me this time is that, for the bulk of the year I've barely known anyone with covid, but in the last month or so I know loads who've caught it. So it feels even more real. I'm also aware that I have a real tendency to pick up chest infections at this time of the year (my last one lasted 2 months), I really don't want the kids to bring it home.

Yes my year 3 will be going in.

T4 here, our primary schools are open but rates are now higher in my area than plenty of places that are closed. I'm so torn, but I think I'm not going to send my reception aged child in. I'm due to give birth next week and don't see the point in risking catching covid or needing to isolate and ending up with no birth partner for a few days or weeks of reception education. I can't see how rates will decrease once schools go back so can only assume that they will close schools in a week or so. Just a bit late for it to be effective as usual.

Ours don’t go back until Thursday, but they’ll be going in. We’re in Greater Manchester so been under additional restrictions for so long, our case numbers aren’t that bad.

DH and I had Covid in November, though, which does make me feel less at risk.