Is the world and their dog key workers!!!

[anxiouscrazymum]

So I am not a key worker, I work 3 days a week and have 2 KS1 children.
I am having to adapt my hours around my children's school work and will just have to run myself ragged over the next few months like many others!
AIBU to think that some parents are taking the P@@s and using Key worker benefits to be bloody lazy.
Why are the allowed to send children 5 days if they only work 2/3?
Why are they allowed to send in if their partner is furloughed or working from home?
Why are they allowed to send children in of the just work weekends in a supermarket normally?
We have 14 out of 30 children in my DS class at school, they have the class teacher with them and also have each other.
I feel my children are being penalised and will miss out on school and social interaction all because I am not a key worker:
If there were less children in, the teacher would be able to undertake zoom classes and online interactions. Because of the number of children in we just get set daily tasks!
Sorry for my rant AIBU x

YABU and bitter.

I contacted the head teacher and gave details of my job, DHs job and our situation and asked for his guidance. He immediately said that DD was welcome at school and should go in as normal.

Her school is a big primary with 3 classes of 26-32 per year,there are currently 6 kids in her class attending.

I know that people will think we're taking the piss but this is what's best for DD and we've been completely honest with the school who have welcomed her in so I feel no guilt at all.

Both DH and I do class as keyworkers under the new guidance but WFH.

OP throws grenade then disappears. Probably away to collect children from school. 🤭

There are a huge amount of parents in our school who have become key workers since the last lockdown

@Alicenwonderland

My DC have spaces in the vulnerable category. The school told me they have space for the whole week and days can't be allocated to anyone else so mine are both going in every day. Please try not to judge others, most people wouldn't realise my children are classed as vulnerable as the reasons why are private and relating to safeguarding issues.

100%

There are 4 children in my DC's class out of 30. I work part time but also do ad-hoc on call too, this means that while you're cosily tucked up in bed I'll get a phone call and instantly be plunged into an incredibly stressful, fast moving situation.
My DC's school stipulates that key worker places are full time. If there were a choice I would keep my DC home for the days that I don't work. I kept my DC home last lockdown, it's not feasible this time. Last lockdown the general public seemed to put their lives on hold but that's not the case this time and coupled with Brexit this all adds to the stress of my working life.
It's a rubbish situation for lots of people right now and what looks like an easy life from the outside maybe a lot more complex than you think.

I agree somewhat. I am not a keyworker, neither is my partner but he will work throughout this despite not being an essential worker.

My children have sen and vulnerable but aren’t being given any provision not even 1 or 2 days a week because the school is full with keyworker children. Some of them genuinely do need to be in but some of the children belong to families who only one parent is a keyworker and the other rid at home. Also a lot of the children are from military families due to nearby raf base. They get provision even if they have one parent at home.

Yet vulnerable children have been given nothing.

I can’t moan really. I’m not working through this so I can stay at home with them but they both have learning difficulties and have 1:1 support at school. I can’t engage and teach them the same way their teachers can. They don’t respond well to me teaching them. I’d be happy even if they went one or two days a week but for now it’s google classroom with home learning that’s too difficult for them!

I'm a key worker and single parent. I WFH, my kids will not be going into school. There are a lot of parents taking the mickey out of the system, I unfortunately know of many of them.

My only concern is my children. I'd love for them to be able to go to school, but I don't fit the genuine criteria of our school, so they are with me.

Home schooling is shit for many, I'm not a qualified teacher and worry that I might be causing them issues in the future as it isn't the way the school would teach it, but that doesn't mean I should just stop.

Probably not a popular opinion, but there are 24 hours in a day, use them wisely. My house isn't a hovel and my work is getting done - just at odd times of the day. I'm tired, yes, but it is what it is and there isn't anything I or anyone else can do about it.

Our school want key worker children in 5 days per week as per the letter!!!

@Alicenwonderland

My DC have spaces in the vulnerable category. The school told me they have space for the whole week and days can't be allocated to anyone else so mine are both going in every day. Please try not to judge others, most people wouldn't realise my children are classed as vulnerable as the reasons why are private and relating to safeguarding issues.

Nobody minds people who need the spaces using them. We are pissed off about the people who really, really don't.

It seems completely variable on where you live.
At my sons school (primary) I asked for Weds, Thurs, Fri and they decided that all kids should come in for the full week “to make the most of the education being provided”.
At my daughters school (secondary) even if you were a key worker they wanted to know exactly why your child wasn’t safe to be at home alone and you had to write them an explanation. She is studying from home.

@Hotcuppatea

Its for the individual schools to judge who is a genuine key worker/ vulnerable child and should have a place and who isn't.

I understand the frustration and people thinking whats the point if so many children are attending anyway, but there is no point directing your disappointment/anger/whatever at parents who have been given a place.

No, you do not understand the frustration, or the effect on kids' development, because you have attempted to invalidate it with incredibly intelligent and analytical cries of "nah ah", "nur jealous" and "lol hyperbole".

If your point is in fact that it's individual schools to blame, it's hard to see why you wouldn't say that instead of things that sounded like they were designed to stop anyone taking you seriously, because they were just idiotic insults.

I can't find the post but I can assure you motor instead is an essential service. ICU nurse who can only get to her place of business by car has her insurance lapse? Or it goes up by so much that she needs to switch? Or she changes car an needs to make a mid term adjustment?
I work in banking and people really don't seem to realise how much we rely on financial services or how much it impacts us when things go wrong.

I’m sure there are people taking the mick, there are a small amount of people in life who will exploit any situation for their advantage but please don’t judge people before knowing the facts.
Last lockdown my friend was reported to the school for abusing the system by somebody because they saw her dropping her child to school and coming back home all day in her own clothes when in actual fact she’s a carer who works nights and needs the day for a few hours sleep!!! Hope the snitch felt like a right idiot after that

I am classed as a keyworker but I’m lucky enough that I finish work at 8/9am so I’m able to be home with my children.

If there are more than a minority of kids in school then this is going to last even longer. Of course kids should only be in school if there is nobody to look after them at home. Some people are unbelievably selfish!

The real truth, as all these threads prove, is that

a/ people cannot BEAR IT if anyone apparently has it 'better' than them EVEN IF IT TAKES AWAY ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FROM THEM THEMSELVES 'cos they are envious fuckers

b/ most posters have fuck all idea of what a key worker is or who is essential because they have no idea how the country actually functions.

Ha, ha! I'm loving these posts!
People complaining about children being in school and spreading Covid and how they should be off.
Now they're complaining about their children missing school! 😂
You just couldn't make it up!

What?
Jobs are essential?
Who would have thought!

Bonkers

@Hotcuppatea

Bonkers

That was directed at @GeordieGreigsButtButtZoom BTW

I know what you mean, but people are burnt out.

My husband is a keyworker. I am not.

Last time I tried to work at home for 8 hours a day, do live zoom lessons for a 5 and 7 year old, keep everyone sane and fed. It wasn’t doable and I asked for furlough.

I lost 20% of my pay to do this and did my best.

I don’t expect a medal for this, I’ve still got a job so on and so forth. Now furlough is not an option I could work at home but it would mean neglecting my children. They would be on devices all day with no home schooling so we’ve had no choice but to use the key worker spaces.

If we were both desk based and in the hoise we could do “shifts” with work and home schooling but it’s just not possible so we’ve had to use the key worker space.

I know a few others in the same position.

Considering the plummeting tax revenues and financial black hole, it's pretty key to be doing work of any kind at the moment - if we want to be able to fund schools and the NHS that is. I personally do not try to "get around" the rules but I totally sympathise with those who do.

@Hotcuppatea

So much jealousy around this issue.

I take it you are a key worker or partner of a key worker?

@Hotcuppatea

Bonkers

See, this is literally all you've got. Your contribution to the thread is literally "jealous", "no you don't", "hyperbole" and now this.

There are plenty of people on the thread disagreeing with me, and I think they are wrong, but they are generally at least making some sort of argument with something, however oversimplified and uncritical, to back it up. You're nothing but variations of "NO YOU."

I guess at least I can see why you aren't too worried about not going to school, though it certainly sounds as though you get your devastating insults from the playground. Anyway, I won't feed you any further. The exchange, and your astounding contributions, speak for themselves.

Well yes, but that is a natural consequence to having your own child's development severely disrupted for however long when so many others are not expected to endure the same even though they have a parent at home who is better placed to home school than you are, who doesn't even work. That's something that does need to be factored in when you make decisions about who continues to get a proper education and socialisation and who doesn't, because it affects the spirit and the likelihood of people believing what you tell them, trusting you and adhering to what you ask them to do.

Going, "Nyah nyah jealous" may not be inaccurate but it's also not very helpful and doesn't indicate much capacity for analysis of the situation

I agree with this. People are stretching the definition of key-worker, which means school numbers are barely reduced, which means the children who are at home being homeschooled by working parents miss out for no real benefit. There is no reason their parents should be happy about this.