Anyone keeping their kids off school anyway?

[Imsosorryalan75]

I work in a school and have children myself. Most of our classes today were only 3/4 full. Many parents have decided to keep children off even though there are no plans to close schools...yet

Have you decided to keep yours off?

Yes

My daughter isn't going to preschool tomorrow. If I had kids in school I wouldnt be sending them in - possibly an exception for GCSE year 11 students but probably nor

No, mine is going in until they officially close.

Yes. DS with SN, and DD with SN terrified of infecting DS. Today was a bit frenetic whilst we tried to organise ourselves a bit

I work for an FE college and we were told today we will close on Thursday. I’ll take my DC out of school then.

I’m much more worried today than I was a few days ago.

Yes. My son is 4.5 years old in the nursery year of a primary school. We phoned in sick for him today... said he'd got the runs. But now I want to tell them the real reason why. Think its important that they know, but I was quite worried they would judge me for removing him!

Yes

Yes, I can’t risk it

We have just had an email from school saying that it's up to parents whether they consider travel to school to be 'essential'....

I don't know I'm leaning towards keeping them off although I have to work. They are old enough to be OK alone for a few hours so I'm tempted to keep them off and then tell work I will be off after this week. I can see my work closing down by Easter anyway and the same for school so I'm just not seeing the point in keeping everything "normal" for the sake of a couple of weeks.

I have lost all faith in the way the government have handled things. The lack of clear advice has been shocking.

Yes I took him out at the end of last week. Absences are being authorised nationwide.

Yes, my two (Y8 and Y12) staying at home from this morning. DH has serious heart condition, school informed us over the weekend that they have 4 suspected cases in the school population. We just can't risk it. School have been really supportive of our decision.

Yes.

Yes- 2 dc have asthma, one of whom had a hospital admission and course of steroids last month. I'm not risking it. Dh didn't agree but seeing the latest advice I feel even more certain it is the right thing.

No. My son is doing his gcse. He has been ill this year and missed a ton of school. He will go in until they close.