Who is keeping their kids home from school from Monday?

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I am. I am at real risk if I catch this. I am not locking my kids in the house. But it will mean they see a small number of kids rather than the hundreds they do in school.
And yes I will be keeping them away from clubs or any large gatherings as well.
Anyone else?

I am taking a wait and see approach. Taking my kids out of school from Monday is not committing me to anything. It is taking my kids out of school on Monday. In the meantime I will continue to read what scientists are recommending. I do not trust the Government approach either.

My gran lost a father in the 1918 flu pandemic as a child. That affected her for the rest of her life. I don't intend the same will happen to my kids.

Sorry. But I will not be having a vaccine that is knocked up in a few months. Normally these things go through testing etc. Not having that and won’t let me son have it either.

The thing worrying me is we are being told that schools stay open so nhs workers can go to work but doesn’t this mean their children go home to a risk of infection and then bring it back to school and pass it on to other children who then take it home to their families who might otherwise have not come in contact with it?

It’s honestly frying my brain. I’m worried school will come after me if I keep ds out of school because they know I have diagnosed OCD and I worry they’ll blame it on that and we will end up with SS at the door.

@Drivemybluecar
A vaccine will likely be ready in China by April and used on the Chinese population (largescale human trials).
Every medical decision is a risk-benefit analysis. Shades of grey.
Let's see what happens and take a view when we know more..

I’ve had mine off since Wednesday. My parents and in-laws are elderly and unwell and I don’t have to work right now. So why risk it?

@CornflakeBreath The Government want it to spread through the population.
This is at odds with WHO's advice, every other government and most and lots of scientists. But apparently British science is different to the science elsewhere.

I can understand why it sounds scary and worrying that nurseries are saying they wouldn't tell you if there was a case.

My thinking however is that it's because we've moved past the point of being able to contact trace. Soon there will be cases everywhere and with it spreading before symptoms show, it would be impossible to pin point it coming from nursery.

The government advice of isolating when you get symptoms applies there. If you get symptoms, take relevant action. It's almost irrelevant if it came from you, a family friend, other kids at nursery etc, if 60% of us will get it at some point.

apparently British science is different to the science elsewhere

Yep. Incredible.

I am considering it. As I say on my thread, our school has emailed to say they are staying open despite having a direct link with a confirmed case. They are following government advice, but I have more trust in WHO than in that.

I think if all the parents who do have capacity would take their kids out of school that would ease the burden for schools if teachers were sick, all we need is live streaming from classrooms and better broadband.

Exactly @toseland it should be optional.
Advice should be that anyone who can keep kids home should without fear of a fine. Those who need two parents working or are in essential roles can keep sending them in for childcare.
Having half the kids off will in a small way lessen the spread. Less commuting. Less congregation of numbers.

@sertralinehelp But our nursery told us on Thursday morning it's ok to bring them in with a temperature. That was before Boris's speech, so I was expecting an email or something, but nothing.

Mine definitely staying at home. Governments strategy is madness. 60% herd = 40m with virus. 1% mortality rate = 400k. No evidence that you’ll get immunity. That why get flu jab annually. Anything we can do to stop contact = less cases. Frees NHS already stretched to capacity for front line workers. BJ is useless... where has he been all weekend? Are we a Cummings experiment! How dare he try and force schools to stay open. Unis and Private schools are shutting. Yes it is hard but this is not Business as Usual!

Out state school HT has already told us it is our decision! HTs have been told they can’t and should not stop us. He was very supportive and understanding.

I am keeping my daughters out now, but my eldest has a GCSE tomorrow, so I feel I have to let her go in for that. I am at higher risk and I should be isolating now, so there isn’t any way round it.
I am also getting toothache in a tooth that needs a new filling, dentist appointment not until mid April, which obviously won’t happen. So that is a big worry, I don’t know what to do.

Taking the kids out from tomorrow. Primary aged. I'm immunocompromised due to treatment for MS. The schools will shut eventually anyway so the additional risk for a week or two more is just not worth it.

But I'm lucky enough to have a DH who can work from home and I have been able to negotiate this for myself as well due to my vulnerabilities, despite it not being ideal for my role. If our work situation was different, we might take a different view.

Mine are going in, gcse year. Sensible precautions taken and ill follow all advice.

Are the schools still making people pay if they take their children out of schools

@Drivemybluecar they can't fine you if you are following government advice.

Dc can have a 'temperature' and need to be isolated for 7 days. Next week they can have a cough and need to be isolated again for 7 days etc.

Printscreen the online 111 advice. No one will be getting sick notes at the minute. They won't be able to touch you.

What about the people who are taking their children out who don’t have a cough ?

Mine both have coughs (they both have a cold) but no fever so I’ll be keeping them off next week as per the gov advice.

My year 11 child will be going to school but could cope with closure as the school uses Google Classroom already and she spends most of her free time in her room comunicating with friends via whatsapp. Whether I could still afford the broadband/mobile phone contracts is a different issue as my 2 jobs are both in schools and I am really worried about finances if they close for any length of time. (single parent, no other family)

@Drivemybluecar the dc don't actually have to have a cough. The parents just have to say that they have. Then, no fine.