Are you sending your kids to school Monday?

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Yes, No or Maybe answers only please.

As the WHO have now criticised the UK Government's strategy; death rates today doubled and we simply have no idea of the actual numbers of cases due to very limited testing. I'm seriously considering following the advice of WHO and most other European governments and self-isolating me and the kids from Monday.

post edited by MNHQ at OP's request.

No
@yomommasmomma I'm assuming they'll be off until September (worst case scenario) then anything less than that is a bonus. We'll be spending as much time as possible in fresh air but away from people. Long forest and county walks for the air and Uv to get rid of the germs 🤞

Yys

Yes

Babyfg it was made clear earlier that isolationnand lock down means not goingnto for walks

Thanks for confirming the length of time you plan to keep them off for. Will you do some homeschooling during that time?

So DragonMamma - your disabled (presumably not young) stepfather is looking after an ill child? Have I understood that correctly? Can't be right. Surely?

Yes

Yes. Public bus and school. I think it'll be ok.

I work in the front line in the nhs if my DC don't go to school I can't go to work

Mine had a high fever of almost 40 in the last 24 hrs so we’re following the official guidelines of self-isolation for next 7 days. But I won’t be sending anyone in before Easter holidays. And I’m bracing for next month.

People, think ahead of what you might need to homeschool and start stocking up slowly and responsibly. There will be panic buying of bloody a4 paper and ink printer next 🙄

Yes

Both DD’s schools have set all classes up on Microsoft teams so that they can continue to be set assignments/have virtual lessons etc once the schools do close but while the schools remain open and none of us have any symptoms they will continue to go to school.

I am very sympathetic to the fear that people feel over this and if I had a child or family member in a high risk category I may very well do differently. However while I’m no fan of our government I do have faith in the highly experienced scientists advising them. I find the way that some parts of the media are dealing with this to be utterly irresponsible, people are getting themselves into such a state.

However, people can’t sustain this heightened level of anxiety for many weeks/months. People will calm down and get used to a ‘new normal.’ That’s another reason why it’s important to time the school closures at the right time, if it goes on for too long people will get complacent when they should be at their most vigilant. My sister lives in a large Spanish city where the advice has been to stay in and practise social distancing for about a week but a lot of people weren’t complying which is why they’ve gone for full lockdown now.

Yes Monday, but schools are closed after that for at least three weeks.

No. Ds has asthma so I'm not taking the risk. Talk of school closures here soon anyway and our minister said it will 16 weeks. His school is putting online into place presently.

We have decided not to.
We will be doing as much learning from home that we can.
As for venturing out I’m not sure? I guess large open spaces are ok if you don’t have symptoms?

Chickenpox here so no

GCSE year so yes. Actually I think I would anyway

yomama yes - we will be home studying. We started this week - dd has already stayed she gets more accomplished at home. It’s GCSE year- so lots of pass papers and revision etc. dd is worried they won’t be able to fit exams as she doesn’t want to prolong it and has already done the work.
Education is a marathon and not a sprint. I’ve taken dd out in the most important year of education and she’ll be ok. All dc will be ok if they miss a few weeks - as long as they have a caregiver looking after them.

I am of course concerned about dc who don’t.

Please please don't pass your anxiety to your children. This will set up how they cope with everything for the rest of their lives. Please don't show them that panic and anxiety is how we deal with things. Send them to school.

It would be fine for DS to stay home to revise if they had finished the curriculum but they have only finished the curriculum in two subjects so there is still learning to be done.
I know they can't say at the moment but really want to know what is happening with the exams. I really can't see them going ahead as planned in May/June as supposedly that will be the peak of CV.

No

Yes

Yes. I'll send him until they close.

celery people are dead. I grew up without a mother.

Do you want to know what that’s like? And how different I think my life would be?

Please please don't pass your anxiety to your children. This will set up how they cope with everything for the rest of their lives.

Tit.

Hmm, will my children be more disadvantaged by:

A) Staying at home for a while, happily playing and none the wiser as to why. Just happy they get to garden/play/use mummy's computer.

B) Lose a very vulnerable parent, possibly a vulnerable sibling and probably grandparents too.

Plenty of people have good reason to be worried about this brand new virus, which very possibly does not convery immunity and may very well cause long term health issues and infertility, even in 'mild' survivors.

Being a responsible and loving parent doing the best for your dc is not scaremongering ffs.