What are you doing if you’re wfh with an underlying condition but have dc’s who are expecting to go to school?

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Dh has an underlying condition and will wfh, we have teens at different schools. Would you stop them going in? Send them in and bellow wash your hands when they come home? Anything else? One is doing a levels this year.

With an underlying condition in the house I’d keep them home personally.

I’m in the same position, my husband is chronic kidney disease and it’s said to be social distant/not go to work then to the extreme of 12 weeks isolation by Monday, we have a child in reception, there is no point my husband doing this with him going to school, I think we are trying to just get through the week and hope they close schools on Monday, apparently you will receive a txt anytime from 23rd March to tell you if you are at high risk.

We're taking ours out tomorrow. Giving them today to say bye etc, rather than just whip them out with no notice. But ours are young primary, so easier to take out in that sense (and I'm a sahm and former teacher, so it's very easy for us). We figured it wasn't worth the risk of them carrying it into the home with a higher risk parent.

Good luck in your decision making! It's not easy!

we are sending DC in at the moment and washing as soon as get in the door.... I am thinking just for this week though not sure I can take the nerve shredding but dc want to go and his school are being hot on hygiene... I supervise teh at home handwashing which seems a bit crazy but.....a firend is making DC shower and change when they get in _I may move to that in the short term!
If A level - have they taught all the curriculum yet? i know some schools work on that til Easter - but others may have by now..
I think if they've gone through it I would just switch to revision mode now so be at home

Dc in schools are just a CV19 home delivery system!

Most of her subjects have taught the curriculum and what’s left is minimal. I’m not worried about it, she’s very studious.

Mine is still in.

Exam year and coursework still to finish

Beginning to worry as proper isolation looms. Toying with the idea of seeing if she could stay with a friend for the rest of term, then go to her father’s for a week

I was going to start this thread myself. We live with my mum who has one of the major risk factors but she’s generally fit and healthy. She’s off work with a cold /cough right now but I’m hoping she won’t be going back as it’s a non essential education establishment (painting courses for old people, that sort of thing ). Dc (young, little understanding of hand washing) have been off with coughs themselves and now I can use the self Household self isolating to keep them off longer but I really feel uncomfortable about them going in. I can’t see that their reception year is more important than possibly infecting believed gp with a potentially lethal illness but I’m quite torn because I don’t know if I’m being a bit nuts and paranoid. Given the rate of spread probably not but god I feel guilty about her missing so much school. I think the school have their heads buried tbh. They are currently arranging parents evening for end of March! That’s potentially 1000 people meeting the teachers ! Mad.

I'm keeping DS12, y8, who also has asthma and has flu injection home today.

We're going to send y10 sitting exams in as long as possible currently- their school is still doing assemblies though she has something else on during them so will keep under review though teachers are expecting school to shut soon. DD has hand gel and instruction to stay away from coughs etc.

Currently sending in primary school child in good health - but thinking we may not rest of week - though that school has cancelled p/t meeting due, assemblies and any clubs out of school also hand squirting the kids with hand gel going in and during the day so they seem to be taking it all more seriously.

We've been getting everyone to wash hands as soon as they come in past week or so.

If they are in exam years I'd be more inclined to send them in as long as possible but if there teachers start not being ther at A-level I'd rapidly re-think.

I've got ds1 who is home educated, but has some severe medical conditions, at least 3 of which are on the list for vulnerable people.
However I also have dd1, who is sitting exams in may, and has coursework to finish, and dh, who works with the public, and cant work from home. At the moment, I dont see the point in keeping dts (6) off school, as dh is the one most likely to catch it, so we're doing handwashing as soon as anyone comes home, and trying to keep ds1 away from people as much as possible. It's not easy, and I have no idea if I'm doing the right thing, I just have to hope I am.

As dh and I are both vulnerable, our dds will not be going in from tomorrow, they’re only going in today so they can get books and change their computer passwords. They’re not happy about this, to put it mildly put needs must.

The government doesn’t give a shit about the health of our family and I don’t want to be one of Boris’s guinea pigs in his dangerous experiment, thanks you very much.

So quite a few parents are going to be told,You’re in a vulnerable group so you’re to sit at home for 12 weeks but carry on sending the kids to school so they can catch it and bring it home?

I have Type 1 diabetes. I'll be able to WFH but guidelines are this won't be granted if you also are doing childcare. Special leave likely to be available once schools closed or if your child ill/self isolating but not if you choose to keep them off. So till they close I need to get ds in to school and will just have to go out- it's a 3 min walk to school (dh will be able to do this some days but often not).

You’re not nuts and paranoid, peapod. And anyone who can take their kids out of school is helping to reduce the spread and the strain on hospitals.

We're keeping them home. DP has heath issues. Starting self isolation today.

Vanillaradio you have to self isolate the whole family if anyone in your family has a cough. How are they to know if you're telling the truth about it? Can't you just say one of them has a cough?

Having just listened to Mayor of London - if I was there I'd keep them home.

There are few cases where we are currently - not in a hot spot - and DH is going into work via public transport today though the expectation is from tommorow he'll be working from home - there are having meeting today check everything in in place apparently.

So will re-think tommorow.

enjoyingSun what did he say?

dh Thinks I’m overreacting, but I think they shouldn’t go in. If the idea is to limit the strain on the NHS then the dc’s shouldn’t be in a position where they could bring the virus home.

enjoyingSun what did he say?

That London is few weeks ahead of the infection curve - to rest of counrty - not sure that's a surpise THB but that would tip it for us I think.

Apparently he did ask about schools when he was invited to Corbra meeting - but advice was current no time to close though he thought they might in next few weeks but he did go on to to talk about how important new measures were.

That's what I heard anayway - busy getting ready- Radio 4 Today program so should be somewhere you can listen on line.

As of yesterday, we have a vulnerable adult DS home from university, in a household with a schoolchild in A level year.

One bathroom between us.

None of this is straightforward.