Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Covid

Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.

Original poster

to ask if your kids are going to school on Monday?

297 replies

MoonBlood · 14/03/2020 22:13

I’ve been quite happy to follow government recommendations so far, but today my DD couldn’t go swimming with her mates as their parents are keeping them home. I made a comment that they’ll be surrounded by kids at school on Monday anyway and she said that their parents will be keeping them off now as they disagree that schools should be open. I was going to keep sending mine as long as they’re open, I’ve got three healthy teen kids but also a preschool child with asthma who ends up in hospital fairly regularly just from basic colds and am second guessing myself now?

OP posts:
itsallthedramaMickiloveit · 14/03/2020 22:23

Yes. They are 5 & 3. I love them. I also like to miss them a little. And if that is going to be taken away from me I at least want to get as much out of the school as possible.

atomicnotsoblonde · 14/03/2020 22:23

Yes. I'm a single parent and NHS staff. It's my obligation to go to work and I will.

formerbabe · 14/03/2020 22:24

If I was you @queenofeverything44 I'd be doing the same Flowers sorry for your loss

barnabybenny · 14/03/2020 22:24

Mine will be going until either I hear of a confirmed case in someone at their school or the government closes them. I'm a teacher, our school will be open until the government closes it, I'm not sure what I agree with tbh but I can understand the arguments for and against closing them.

I have mild asthma, I'm not sure where that leaves me in terms of risk. My children have no underlying health issues but if they did they'd be at home now in quarantine and I'd take whatever consequences there were to that. Life is too precious.

I'm worried about my parents.

PinkiOcelot · 14/03/2020 22:25

DD2 doing her GCSEs soon too so she’ll be at school on Monday although if Boris had said to close schools, I would have happily kept her off.

Original poster
MoonBlood · 14/03/2020 22:25

Just to clarify I will be accessing online learning for her so she won't be sitting doing nothing all day..

I would be doing this aswell, it’s not going to be a holiday if they stay off!

OP posts:
Jespers · 14/03/2020 22:26

Kids with underlying medical stuff AND I do not trust what our government have decided

Waitingforadulthood · 14/03/2020 22:26

Mine is going, I want to keep her home, as there is a case in her class (not tested because they won't test- even though she went to Milan in February!) but my dd had chicken pox and I've already had a threatening letter about attendance so what can I do now?!

Jespers · 14/03/2020 22:27

So kids at home. We’ve been sent to WFH anyway As have most parents we know

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 14/03/2020 22:27

Mine will be going in until guidelines says differently.
(UK)

Msmcc1212 · 14/03/2020 22:28

Mine going in but I feel uneasy about it. We are all in good health so not worried too much about us but I just feel we should be closing schools. I read this a couple of days ago and am baffled by government response. I can see some logic but feel they haven’t been clear re why they are not shutting schools other than childcare issues and the wider impact of that which I can see.

medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

june2007 · 14/03/2020 22:29

Yes no cases in this town as far as we know. And I still have work. (in a childrens nursery.)

Socalm · 14/03/2020 22:29

Mine are going. If the schools close, we're all going to be climbing the walls, so I'm really not wanting to preempt it.

TheWristBoundLatexBitch · 14/03/2020 22:29

We have at least 10 cases in our area and a high percentage per 100,000 population, but I cannot afford fines, so yes mine are going.

recededpronunciation · 14/03/2020 22:30

Mine are going in. One of the schools has a confirmed case but has been cleared to stay open. No one particularly at risk in our immediate family though.

Waveysnail · 14/03/2020 22:30

Healthcare worker here. My choices if school close are - stay home with no pay and patients suffer or leave kids with elderly diabetic grandparents Confused

Original poster
MoonBlood · 14/03/2020 22:30

Im worried about my parents.

My mum is almost 60, with COPD and works in a pharmacy. I worry about her all the time and I want her to take time off work but she refuses as she says she’s needed to do her job at the moment. I’m proud and anxious at the same time!

OP posts:
coronavirusissueatschool · 14/03/2020 22:31

I've already had a threatening letter about attendance so what can I do now?!

Say she has a cough and you're self isolating as per guidelines.

TheWristBoundLatexBitch · 14/03/2020 22:32

I'm also bang in the middle of two hospitals that have had deaths. One of which my child has an emergency respiratory appointment next week

MuddyPuddlesAndPrettyBubbles · 14/03/2020 22:33

DD(5) has started coughing this evening, and has been coughing consistently for the last 20 minutes, so nope she's not going anywhere. If she was well she would have been going.

Original poster
MoonBlood · 14/03/2020 22:35

@TheWristBoundLatexBitch but I cannot afford fines

I wondered if there would still be attendance letters and fines etc going out at the moment, surely these aren’t usual circumstances though? People are being told to self isolate so the rules must be a bit flexible at the moment?

OP posts:
Zombiemum1946 · 14/03/2020 22:36

I'm sending mine, eldest has exams coming up and has work to catch up on. My husband's a teacher and he's been told that closure is highly unlikely. Just do what's best for your dc.

coronavirusissueatschool · 14/03/2020 22:36

People are being told to self isolate so the rules must be a bit flexible at the moment?

We've been told to use the snow day code so attendance won't be affected.

AllTheseThingsThatIHaveNotDone · 14/03/2020 22:38

I've already had a threatening letter about attendance so what can I do now?!

I believe that many schools will be using a special code for corona issues such that attendance stats do not get unfairly affected

AllTheseThingsThatIHaveNotDone · 14/03/2020 22:40

Aah x-post! yes exactly
there are still poor attenders at ours using corona as a bandwagon