Are you going to send your kids back in when they reopen?

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Wondering if people will send them back.
As they think only 4-10% of population might have had it. And this peak was only 4w of school.
Im not shielding but isolating as much as possible because im
asthmatic.

I hope they say attendance isnt mandatory so people who need to/want to or are still WFH can keep them home if needed.

I think in Scotland they stagger the finish date and start date slightly?

I always remember being at school 1st week of Wimbledon but home the 2nd week.

Yeah there's a range of finishing dates but most posters on here are south of the border and working towards the start of summer holidays being around 22nd July.

(Which to me seems ridiculously late)

pineapple living in England there is a whole load of things are daft

Apologies if this has been said already.

It isn’t just about the children. It’s also about staff. My school, a small rural school, lost eight members of staff in the last week before schools shut, due ruling health issues etc - they were all isolating at home. There were 5 of us to look after children from nursery to Year 6, including breakfast clubs, lunchtimes and after school care, and also cook the school dinners. There was not much learning taking place because we didn’t have the adults to do it. Instead we did fun, creative stuff and concentrated on keeping the kids we had in school safe.
People who are saying the children need an education, well, that will only happen if staffing levels are suitable. If there is still a significant risk but schools still open there will be lots of staff who can’t go, so education will be hit and miss as the classes will be too big, or of too varied in age.

We don’t physically have space to separate our children and keep them 2 m apart. That’s before you take into account that children won’t abide by it anyway. We can tell them, but as soon as someone needs help putting their coat on, or falls and needs a cut cleaning, then you will lose the 2m. (I suspect the scientists who talked about opening schools never really imagined a situation where you have to say “Come out from under the table, he’s kicking you because he doesn’t like you licking his knee”. They are considering abstract, probably adult, humans, not real children who do very strange things!) And those children will then go home and come into contact with family members.

And if they are mixing and playing at school, why not the park, or sports clubs etc? If you want social distancing, schools shouldn’t open. At the point at which we no longer need social distancing, open them. My own children will then be back.

But don’t worry about missed education if none of the children are in. No-one is missing anything and exams etc will have to be adapted to accommodate that. Its not like one child being off whole everybody else learns. If nothing is taking place then teaching when we do go back will have to adapt to deal with that.

Sorry - I need to proof read. The bit in the second paragraph should say “due to underlying health issues.”

@MarshaBradyo
I don’t particularly trust the WHO. There are a mix of organisations that are reputable and feed into what I think.
U.K. government not the top source either.

Please share what these more reputable organisations are that you get your information from. We could all benefit from knowing.

Buttery are you being sarky?

If you are then meh have a look yourself.

Genuinely, where's this superior info available?

I cba with pissy posts anymore. Have a look at scientific organisations.

marshabradyo was accusing us all of scaremongering when we said this was more than a mild cold weeks ago. She constantly minimises.

All I think you have the wrong poster

I have never posted mild cold bizarre.

I am in the middle I’d say with what I think compared to posters.

But am playing battle ships so don’t have time to expand.

How many would go to the pub or a museum if it was open?

@babybythesea I loved your description of telling a kid to come out from under the table and stop licking another child's knee. I think some of these people have zero idea what kids are actually like. There are very good reasons if 1 kid gets nits that it spreads through the school.

@MarshaBradyo I always see your name and think "Oh, good, someone who gets it" - I think you have been one of the names that have been constantly accused of scaremongering rather than doing the accusing, but you have always seemed well informed and reasonable to me.

I bet the staff of the private school opening up thread are happy and not shitting themselves at all.

Someone mentioned a child’s world falling apart if a parent died. I’m a parent, I’m a teacher. My dc’s world would fall apart.

Lot of discussion about kids. Teachers can catch this disease working in a Petri dish. No one seems to give a shit about staff. Nor does the government.

marsha if I really have I am sorry. It is someone then with a very similar user name to you.

@alloutoffucks You were the one rubbishing my comments a number of weeks ago about how serious this all is and how a lot of people would die

I think you have the wrong poster here as well!!! I was buying facemasks and hand gel back in early February! I knew this was a disaster coming. I really don’t know where you get your info from!

@TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince I care about the staff. Schools only closed because of staff self isolating and parents pulling their kids out of school. The government wanted them to remain open until Easter to make sure more people caught the virus.

Okay bool after I have finished making the kids tea I will advance search.

Have I missed an announcement about schools?
No one can answer this without knowing when schools will reopen and in what order lockdown/social distancing strategies have been reversed.

Bloody hell I cant advance search. After weeks of being told I am scare mongering and this is really nothing to worry about.

@nellodee the lock down is not to stop the spread. It is to slow it down so the NHS can cope.

theemoji of course we care about teachers too.

Not one paster has said schools should open tomorrow.

But if we're reasonably low risk in June then I would hope they open.

You can't stay at home though until a vaccine is found and a teacher should not get special treatment (unless of course they are high-risk.).