Anyone taken their kids out of school?

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My husband wants to take our 3 kids out of school (ages 8-13). He’s involved in an international study on the incubation period (he works on comms side) so has lots of access to clinical data, which means he’s read some scary stuff & often sees worst case scenarios, which maybe skews our thinking.
I am v conflicted & worried, what is the process, will we get into trouble with the local authority, can heads have discretion at times like this? Has anyone else done it or thinking of it? Or are we mad to be even thinking about it? The eldest definitely would hate it as loves school (yeah, strange)
I was hoping the govt would follow Japan & shut schools for early containment but that doesn’t appear to be on the cards for now.

It's really all a matter balance. I was just looking at my mother's Facebook page and she is strongly advocating for all her friends to keep their kids off school, for people to stockpile groceries/masks/sanitisers, not to mention the various scaremongering articles (with clickbait headlines) she's been sharing all month long. It's completely ridiculous.

Her health anxiety and hysteria has caused so much damage to me growing up, I really do pity any kid who has to live with a parent like that too.