Do you want to keep you kids off at the moment?

[Jerseygaly]

Posted here for voting not in other areas.

Yanbu-yes
Yabu -no

No

HTH

Nope.

Nope.

My son is off. He has brittle asthma (probable copd) he takes azythromycin on top of 4 asthma medications. I just can't chance him getting unwell.

No.

Absolutely not!!
I've only just recovered from half term and have Easter on the horizon....

No ducking way !

Good grief no, what would I do with them all day at home when I'm trying to work?
So
Do I want to? No, no and hell no.

Would I if that were the advice (which it's not)? Yes, obviously.

Only just got one of mine back in, after a period of school refusal, and it's his gcse year, so no way.

No.
They tend to be healthy and hardy. DS2 has a history of asthma symptoms, but hasn't needed to use inhalers this winter for the first time (cold tended to be a trigger)

A member of staff gleefully and reverantly came in the staffroom with hand sanitiser yesterday I am getting the DCs to wash hands when entering the house which is no bad thing.

I see no point in keeping children off school at this stage from a generalised fear. If there is heightened risk to a particular individual or a specific localised risk that's different.

It's bad enough that DH is about to start working from home...

@Rumplestrumpet that’s exactly how I feel!

If the schools shut, obviously I will have to keep them at home, but until that point is here, I shall be Cheerily sending them off every morning, reminding them to Check they have a packet of tissues and to wash their hands frequently.

how would your work react, OP?

@Rumplestrumpet that's made me laugh

Double nope

Yes 😭 I can work from home fine, but I worry if I choose to keep him off I’ll get fined by school & I also don’t think they’ll provide him with work todo. He’s in the higher risk group, but still following gov guidelines at the mo

No, although our school is sending us information about remote learning, so I hope they'll be prepared if it happens. Fortunately for us we're not in either GCSE or A level years.

No. If and when the advice changes, then I will keep them at home. At the moment I think the level of panic potentially caused and the social isolation would be of more harm to my children than the current risk of Coronavirus.

Nope. Eldest is in GCSE's, I want them disrupted as little as possible. Making sure they eat well, sleep well, and wash hands frequently. They're reasonably healthy.

Hi @Jerseygaly, we've had to move this over to Coronavirus, as we are with all our other threads on the topic

@Flippetydip that's how I feel!!

My daughter has health issues and learning disability it’s not huge but she’s in risk group.I’m not keeping her in at the moment but we’ve cut activities and contacts so it’s to school and back home, to the hobby club and back home e.g. we didn’t go shopping last weekend as usual. I think it’s sensible. I would cut it more if necessary but I don’t work so is able to do this.

No really. As much as I would love them home and lock us all inside I don't think it warrants it at the moment.

DD has her A levels soon.

Not yet

I will absolutely follow the best official advice as it comes out, but do I want it, no. It would be in every way hugely disruptive. If schools close, we will cope (somehow).