Dont think im sending my kids to school on Monday....need advice pls

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hi
The main thing is that my 12 year old and 15 year old both attend school and 19 year old in special college and seeing as the uk is near the only country that hasn't closed schools yet its become our biggest worry so far. My wife as illness but not on the scale of my kids grandma who as copd and diabetes and other illness as well and is 74 years old and if she gets coroavirus it will be extreme and fatal and everyday they go to their grandmas at around 5-6 pm to help with meals and do a few choirs etc as she lives 2 doors away and cant survive without the help and our kids all travel to school via public transport

but im going to leave them off monday i think and contact welfare and see what kind of trouble i will get in to keep my kids home so they dont get a chance at this virus etc.

its been stuck in me and my wifes head all week on what to do :(

Clearly this is affecting your mental health. Although it doesn't sound as if you need to keep the children off from school for their health, you clearly need to do it for that of your wider family and your own mental health. I do not believe there will be any penalties for parents that keep their children off, even if there were you would keep them off anyway I should imagine?

Ok I have corona, not tested but all the symptoms and have been in contact with someone that has tested positive.
It's not great, but honestly it's not as horrendous as the media is making out.
I think we will be on lock down by Friday anyway so if it makes you all feel happier, stay off xx

I think that schools will be so busy trying to sort things out for future closures and staff shortages that they won't be bothered by children's absences. I don't think that there will be penalties. Just say that they are sick. School staff are going to be in a right state tomorrow themselves. We have families and vulnerable dependants too.

@DoubleTrouble. How old are you, how long have you been ill for? Hope you don't mind me asking.

@ElizabethMainwaring hey! I started with what I thought was a cold last Wednesday and by Friday I went into isolation. I'm 30 and rubbed shoulders with someone who had it the Saturday before x

Hi, just tell the school that your dc have developed a temperature or a new continuous cough, and you are isolating them for at least 7 days as per the advice.

I agree, just tell the schools your kids have a cough. There will be so many doing the same, plus they'll be trying to organise for when official closures happen.

@ElizabethMainwaring thanks Dr

@ElizabethMountbatten, why do you think that? (This is getting complicated name wise!)

I would keep them at home. I am doing the same. It's safer to do it and be wrong than the alternative... I hope you feel better once you've made the decision. Xx

@ElizabethMountbatten 😂
And @ElizabethMainwaring sorry for mistaking you for that person clearly looking for an argument

@ElizabethMountbatten they have stopped swabbing Dr.
So crawl back under your scare mongering rock

What symptoms did you have @DroubleTrouble ? From what I read cold symptoms mean a cold rather than CV but I guess it depends what cold symptoms you had.

OP I don't suppose you will get into any kind of trouble for keeping them off. If challenged you can always say someone in the family looked like they were showing symptoms.

I totally agree with ElizabethMountbatten people suffer from covid19 to very varying degrees anyway, so even if you do have it DroubleTrouble your experience won't be the same as everyone's. People with underlying health issues need to be extra careful.

Op we are thinking of taking the children out of school from Tuesday, because coronavirus would be very dangerous for my husband.

https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-covid-19-allow-parents-to-take-their-children-out-of-school-without-repercussions?recruiter=793517629&utmsource=shareepetition&utmcampaign=psffcomboshareeinitial&utmmedium=whatsapp&recruiteddbyid=17efe2d0-9fdf-11e7-b77d-bf35425234a9&utmmcontent=washarecopy206556555en-GB%3Av10

Thanks orangeblosssom I've signed it for what its worth.

My son's school send a letter out yesterday, to say if your child is off for more than three days you need to provide one the following, an appointment card to prove you've been to the doctors, a prescription or a discharge letter from the hospital. So that's where they stand.