To not understand why people are taking children out of school for the last week?

[TellerTuesday]

To be clear, I don't mean people who have travel plans for the the first week of the holiday. I totally understand why people agave decided it's not worth the risk of having to isolate and not being able to go away etc.

But I really don't understand why people are keeping DCs out of school for the last week so that they 'don't have to isolate for the first week of the holidays'

There are 6 children in DD's class who have now finished for the year despite them not breaking up until next Friday. 1 is travelling the first weekend so I do see logic with that one hut the other 5 don't have anything planned.

In that situation are people not just isolating for a week to avoid the risk of POSSIBLY having to isolate the week after?

My school most definitely does not do television or colouring in! Curriculum planned right to the end. It depends on the school.

I’m keeping mine home because we go away the first week, but I’d have done it anyway.

6 year groups and 4 of them have been sent home. It’s ripping through everywhere at the minute and after the year they’ve had, I’m not keeping my kids indoors again if I can help it.

If four departments at work had been told to self isolate I wouldn’t be going in and nobody would bat an eyelid.

I don't know what you don't understand. It seems pretty obvious to me!

@VashtaNerada

My school most definitely does not do television or colouring in! Curriculum planned right to the end. It depends on the school.

Agreed and same as not kindergarten but primary school so normal expected curriculum especially as some catching up learning due to Covid disruptions.

I can totally understand why they are doing it.

It's running wild through schools. Kids are in and out like fiddlers elbows and suffering the side effects of the anxiety of isolation (again!).

They aren't just isolating from school for the 3rd time in a month they are missing sports clubs and family visits etc.

Enough is enough.

Plus the less kids in school the better for staff as less chance of being a contact! Teachers deserve a break without isolation after the year they've had and the complete disregard for any covid measures being required in schools.

My sons a swimmer. Plenty have pulled out of school because isolations meant missing training and they've finally got a chance of a regional/ virtual national event at the end of the month and they don't want to be missing training or worse the event.

Ds finished college 2 weeks ago so we've not needed to but I would have done.

DD2 went back for the last 4 days - following a burst bubble. For us, letting her have the last few days of year 6 and have the (postponed) celebrations was priority. But DH and I are working most of this week (me from home).

DD1 got advised to isolate on Monday evening. This meant I couldn't take them out on my rota'd days off but it's not the end of the world.

If we were going away or I relied on the girls being looked after elsewhere, or if we had planned to meet up with family etc. I may have taken a different approach.

It feels safer them not being in school right now.