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

[Laiste]

(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?

My husband and I both have to work my son will be in

No I’m not sending them in. They aren’t due in until Tuesday but their school areas Covid rate is 800 in 100,000. The town average is less at 440. Tier 4 in the Midlands. It’s ridiculous

I'm not sure what benefit closing primaries for 2 weeks will do to be honest on terms of community infection rates. It took 3 months last time.

I'm not sending him in. I'm teacher and I'm submitting the letter from my union saying that I am refusing to go in to work in current conditions. If it isn't safe for me to work it isn't safe for him to go to school. But I suspect a lot of us will be hearing that our children's schools are closed today or tomorrow as a lot of staff will follow the union advice.

@Cutesbabasmummy

I'm not sure what benefit closing primaries for 2 weeks will do to be honest on terms of community infection rates. It took 3 months last time.

It would work if every family isolated for the entire two weeks and didn't see anybody else (eg parents didn't go to work and nobody left the house). That is highly unrealistic, but it may stop the worst of the Christmas/NY mixing damage.

We are Tier 4, the schools are open and they will be going in. No doubt in my mind whatsoever. You cannot live your life in fear, particularly in fear of something that is extremely unlikely to make them ill or die.

Yes - tier 4 kids will be back on Tuesday.

We are Tier 3, but our town has one of the highest rates of the new strain in the country, so I'm really concerned about sending mine until we know the effects of Christmas mixing. Also worried about school staff. I'm just not a rule breaker and DC have never had unauthorised absence before.

Also I am clinically vulnerable and worried about that too

I'm sending mine in. We're tier 4 but not a hotspot. We don't have any vulnerable people in our bubble. I wfh so I'm hoping for some peace and quiet, although we do have the youngest DC still at home. It's a tricky situation for many.

It does look like many of these schools with have emergency closures after todays meeting.

No, we are not sending in for two weeks, by which time it is likely that the Tier 4 primary schools will have been closed anyway.

We were one of a class of 9 in school on 20th March, we went back in the summer term to a bubble (as one of less than 10 non-keyworkers who did), and have been in all last term, but local cases are now climbing and enough is enough.

We have decided in SEPT not to send our kid into secondary. Nor would we have if he was in primary.

@Laiste

Newjobnewslob - I don't see the benefit of sending him in for a few days to pick covid up, bring it home, then schools close due to numbers going through the roof. But I don't feel comfortable keeping him out of school against the rules / when all his peers will be in.

This! So much.

Also this!

In the worst hit area of Cardiff. Have one child in local school due in on 11th. another DC in SEN school who goes by bus. Not sending either if I can help it. I have a feeling in a few weeks it will not be necessary for me to keep them back. I predict schools will close, at least in my area.

I'm in tier 4 Midlands. I will not be sending my daughter to school, I am asthmatic, my partner is asthmatic and we look after our clinically vulnerable parents who have heart failure and copd. I also work in a care home and I really don't want to risk passing it on to them or the residents I look after. My partner will be home and regardless of whether the school give my daughter work to do on teams, we are planning for her to do maths, English, cooking, history and geography so she will essentially still be learning

OP you have your elderly mother living with you so your situation is unique. I'm sending my kids and we are in tier 4. But if i had an 80 plus relative living with me I wouldn't unless they had been vaccinated.

Tier 4. Yes sending mine in.
But don’t live with anyone who is vulnerable and I’m firmly of the opinion that children need an education and socialisation.

Tier 3 and our primaries have been told to close tomorrow. 234 per 100k here.

@sassbott

Tier 4. Yes sending mine in. But don’t live with anyone who is vulnerable and I’m firmly of the opinion that children need an education and socialisation.

Same...tier 4 NE England mine is going in. I'd rather him go in and get the most until he's locked in yet again unable to see any friends etc for months on end.

For those believing this is going to be 2 weeks you are extremely gullible

Yes I am. They’re yet to have a positive case.

For those believing this is going to be 2 weeks you are extremely gullible.

I agree. If we close schools now they’ll be closed for months not weeks.

Yes. DC really suffered with poor MH the first time round despite our best efforts so I’m very mindful of this and think that for her the risk to her ongoing MH is much bigger than the risk of her catching COVID. It’s a very small school and they’ve only had 1 case which was contained and dealt with very well. So I’ll send her back and just see how it goes.

Yes I am