Keeping kids home from school

[Biscusting]

Just thinking, would it not be a good strategy for those who are able to keep their DCs home to do so? If we reduced class sizes drastically, would this not help families with working HCPs and other core service providers who don’t have another childcare option!?

And whilst i’m shouting from my soapbox, can we not pay nurses and healthcare assistants a bloody decent wage so they are not scraping by whilst trying to keep the whole country safe and well!?

It's worth thinking about whether in that scenario parents would be expecting teachers to provide work for children whose parents are keeping them at home, alongside all of their normal teaching commitments.

I agree. I think if you're able to keep your children off school you should and that will dramatically reduce the germs passing around the school community. As a teacher having 10 kids in a class is a lot less scary than the germs of 30 (or more children if class sizes get relaxed). Even if children are only off part time (fitting in with as many working patterns eg coming in two days instead of five etc)

Children's education will be severely disrupted this academic year.

In the same way I think anyone who can (not just up to whether managers think it's ok) work at home, should be allowed to.

I think the less social movement in any form the better and there's never going to be a one size fits all. Whatever happens people will fall through the cracks which is a very scary thought.

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DS will be off school from Monday.

I thought it might work out better for teachers also. Assuming less staff are then required in schools, meaning those with vulnerable family members/dependants can stay home. I never thought about teachers preparing work for kids.

Depends what your kids will be doing when they aren’t in school. For many kids, particularly in areas with gangs, being at school is the safest part of their day.

I know a good few parents in my DCs school who don’t seem to believe in the 48hr rule, even though they SAHPs or have very flexible working arrangements. I can imagine them not sharing my views on this one mind you.