School open for families with ONE key worker now!

[FreakStar]

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There'll be half the school still there and all the staff! How will this help slow the spread of the virus much?

What's rediculous is the Guardian is the only place I've seen site the 2 parents rule! I have no idea where it came from.

I work at an early years setting and have been waiting for this list all day to try and plan for next week. If it is one parent it means my own kids might be looked after at their school and I can continue to work and support the children of other key workers.

I'm a key worker and hoping my daughter can stay in school, but for education as much as childcare. I know it says they won't be teaching the national curriculum, but surely they'll still be educated?

I very much doubt it, @Alice2535. Not really fair to the (supposed) 90% of children who won't be at school for the next 6 months.

I'd say it's virtually impossible for staff to deliver remote learning to most of their pupils and then teach the other children that happen to be in - just too much juggling.

Even if lots of parents qualify, no one will be sending their children unless absolutely necessary to cover their shifts.

It might not be in their normal school
Probably won't be their usual teacher
It won't be proper education

Anyone who has another option won't send their child to school.

If my DC’s private school continue following the normal curriculum for key workers DC, whilst mine are sat at home but I’m still expected to pay £10k+ school fees for next term, I will not be happy. That would put my DC at a massive disadvantage when they finally get back to normality. I can’t see how that can ask me to continue paying fees if that’s the case.

So, I can babysit at school or I can plan, upload work , mark and support learners remotely. I can’t do both though, so what will it be 🤔

However, I’ll be told to both, so neither will be good quality. The kids who come to school will be given a colouring task or something easy, whilst I upload whatever I can find on the internet, to give kids to do remotely.

Meanwhile, as there are so many key workers involved and only one parent has to be a key worker, there’ll be lots of kids in.

It would have easier to have just left the school open.

We are both key workers but we arr going to share childcare. I don't want my Dd going into school and possible getting infected or being in an unusual situation when she is already worried and confused. I'd rather we were all together.

I understand this is incredibly selfish but I hope the children who go to school arent educated to a greater extent than doing the same work sent home for the other children. My children wont be allowed in school. DH will be with them in the morning then go and do a full days work. I will do a full days work (starting early in the morning) and take over at lunchtime. We will have to make sure they are doing the work sent home but neither of us are teachers and do not necessarily have the skills or the temperament to teach our children as effectively as teachers. Why should some children effectively have a sub standard education for potentially 6 months just because of the job their parents do.

edwinbear DDs school have said that the children at school will be following the same remote learning pathway as those at home, just in the school building.

I've got to go in and look after keyworkers children which isn't a problem but all they are going to be doing is craft, colouring and watching films. I've got to take my child in with me which is annoying as I could be teaching him at home myself!

That’s reassuring Tesla thank you.

My son’s school ahve said that both parents must be key workers. But I’ll be supervising them as well as teaching remotely. Which will be challenging.

Bloated- why can't your son attend his normal school?

They need 10% of children or less in a skeleton school otherwise there's no point closing. They are presumably juggling the lists to achieve this figure and that's why they can't get the list out. I'm sure that one key worker parent would be 50% or more of children in most schools. They are all so far out of their depth now.

Freakstar he attends the school I work in.

I am a keyword and agree that whilst I am upset about schools closing, and have felt the pressure the past few days of trying to home educate my DD whilst working flat out at home to scale down my own work ready for redeployment to the front line, I'm not keen for my DD to go back to school unless it's her own with her usual teacher/s. She is so anxious about the whole thing I need to prioritise her emotional well being over a convenient child care option in unfamiliar surroundings/adults/kids. But I worry that I might be forced to do so, so I can be utilised.

I'v been confused about this all day, no idea whether to continue sending DD in or not.

DDs school have said that the children at school will be following the same remote learning pathway as those at home, just in the school building.

Same as our school, and that basically they will be kept an eye on but not educated in any extra way.

I have been told by teachers and other schools locally have said it has to be 2 key workers. To be honest, I am a key worker but the other half isn't. If we are allowed to send the kids to school I already expect them to be basically childcare with multiple age groups. I would be taking them out on my rest days anyway. Nobody has it better in this situation because I swear to you all right now I would rather shut the door today and emerge on 3 months, tired, thin (because we won't have much food) and haggard but healthy and having spent quality time with my children. I do not want to keep going out there and having to confront the worst. I do not want to be away from my family when every iota of my being tells me to bring them in close. But that said I am enormously grateful to the teachers that will be giving up their own hibernation to look after these kids, especially those in need. This is a time of community and coming together. There are no right or wrong answers. We are all, even the politicians, doing the best we can to make it out the other side. Stay safe all of you.

One of my sons schools is twisting and making it very difficult for us to use them the email was totally geared toward well you could send them but we are all going to be ill! So what's the point and wanting to know if we are key worker and if the children where vulnerable! It's a special needs school! The whole point is they are vulnerable otherwise they wouldn't be there! And 30% of the staff are off on isolation! In this area I have not heard of one single case of the virus, a few better safe than sorry s but no one Ill so how come the school has 30% of teachers off? (Obviously I expect this will change but not at the moment)

Special Needs doesn't mean vulnerable always!

-vulnerable is children who are under the monitoring of social services for various reasons- children in care, children with alcoholic and drug addict parents, children from very low income families, children who are neglected, children from chaotic homes, etc.

I'v been confused about this all day, no idea whether to continue sending DD in or not

It sounds like you have an alternative? If so, then don’t.

Whilst that list mentions police support staff, it doesn’t mention school support staff! Where does that leave Teaching assistants?

And 30% of the staff are off on isolation! In this area I have not heard of one single case of the virus, a few better safe than sorry s but no one Ill so how come the school has 30% of teachers off?

Because they've come in close range of hundreds of potentially-infected children every day, children whose hygiene isn't brilliant, who think nothing of coughing over those next to them and then touching classroom equipment/door handles that are also handled by the teachers, who have been given little or no means to keep clean (eg. wipes, hand gel, soap)?