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

[Keepdistance]

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.

CarlilseMum

Agree with everything you said.

The week before the schools shut was unpleasant. It would be worse now.

Yep here too. That last week was too stressful.

@alloutoffucks you do realise that the WHO won’t have an opinion on whether schools open or not in the UK?

Yes

@JassyRadlett I know it could be that a lot of kids are asymptomatic. What you are missing is that that means they pass it to their teachers and TAs and to parents and grandparents when they return home. In fact if they are more likely to be asymptomatic, that makes it more dangerous to all the adults round them as they will not show any signs of illness, but will affect adults they come into regular contact with.
Forgive me if I don't want my parents to die because I sent my kids back to school too early.

I mean mine will go back as soon as allowed

Yes, both myself and OH are working 4/5 days a week, of course I am grateful for the income but it is impossible to home school. When I am not at work I am cooking/cleaning, if I didn’t do this we would be living in squalor! My kids (13,10,5) are not bothered either way but I think a sensible system of getting them back to school is required because it would be totally counterproductive to keep children out of education for 18 months. I work in an open plan office, we have to work and try and maintain the 2m rule. Schools could run a rota with certain years or sets in on certain days to also maintain this rule. A p/t education is preferable to none.

Yes they will be going back. We are not a high risk group and the negative impact of being away from education and friends is IMO more important to us on balance.

It all depends when they reopen and what the situation is like. I have a vulnerable child so have to be careful but if I think it’s ok then they’ll be going in. If I’m still really worried then they won’t be.

allout I don't want my parents to die either.

So I would keep kids away.

Why do the children need to suffer longterm?

Yes I will defo send my dc back !!

Not until September. We live with my parents who although in good health are over 70.

and I mean keep kids away from parents not school

Here we go, another schools thread full of wild inaccuracies and uninformed opinion presented as if it's fact.

This question seems to presume schools may reopen very soon - in the next few weeks. Now, none of us know when schools will reopen, given that it hasn't been decided yet, whatever anyone says about 'my head teacher was told..' or 'my imaginary friend who works at the Dept of Education says...' But it certainly seems highly unlikely it will be within a few weeks, since almost 1,000 people a day are dying in the UK and we haven't reached peak yet, and won't for a few weeks more is the prediction. Seems unlikely they will reopen till deaths have been consistently in decline for a while. So that's not yet and no parent will have to decide yet.

I strongly suspect that if they do open after half term, and the majority of children do return, that many of those those who have taken the decision not to despite not being in a vulnerable group, will change their mind is they see other children playing and laughing on their way to school, and FB posts about how happy their children are to be back at school and how great it is to see them learning and soaking up information again as their young brains are primed to do.

Just a hunch.

Yes, mine will go back as soon as the schools re open.

Partly as DH and I will need to go back to work, but also because I'm confident that we'd be fine if we caught it (no vulnerable people in this household). I realise we could be one of the unlucky ones, but you can't live your life based on a very small risk of something bad happening, or none of us would ever travel by car.

It doesn’t help them getting an education if some of them die, and of course pass the infection onto vulnerable family members! I hope the govt don’t bow down to those who are wanting to sacrifice children and staff for the sake of money ...

I'll wait and see when they open. Mine is at nursery and working from home is extremely difficult, so I probably will as long as it's not very soon. Obviously he will pick it up there - he's of an age still where everything goes in his mouth - but I'm hoping I won't have to send him back for a while. I can work from home easily, just not with a shouty 14 month old!

I know it could be that a lot of kids are asymptomatic. What you are missing is that that means they pass it to their teachers and TAs and to parents and grandparents when they return home.

I’m not missing it. At some point restrictions will be lifted and more people will be at risk of the virus. If children are less contagious - whether because they don’t get it or asymptomatic people transmit a lower viral load - then this will be lower risk than millions more commuting on public transport or going into restaurants. And I trust that the school will be protecting its vulnerable staff effectively, even if it means class sizes and teaching are chaotic for a while.

In fact if they are more likely to be asymptomatic, that makes it more dangerous to all the adults round them as they will not show any signs of illness, but will affect adults they come into regular contact with.

‘If’ - a big if. We simply don’t know this.

Forgive me if I don't want my parents to die because I sent my kids back to school too early.

And this is why the risk assessment will be different for each of us. For me, it is relatively straightforward to keep my children away from close contact with vulnerable groups, unfortunately including their grandparents - they don’t live with us. We are resigned to not seeing them for a long time. For you this is clearly different, so your risk assessment will be different.

Can you share that modelling on the ‘super spreader’ vaccination modelling? Does it include vaccinating children if you see them as such a risk?

I’m also curious why you trust WHO more than eg UCL and others, or even PHE who have access to much more data on the UK population.

I am the same as you OP as an asthmatic who is trying to isolate as much as is humanely possible - although DH is a keyworker so we are not fully isolated.

I am fulltime carer to my eldest child who is almost an adult so I am at home anyway but we also have a 5yr old who started reception this year and we would need to use public transport to get to school so think I would prefer to keep her home until it is all settled. (She is possibly asd, assessment got pushed back now though and school causes her so much anxiety so to be honest home is where she is happiest).

and I mean keep kids away from parents not school

We live with mine. :-(

My daughter's school reopens Wednesday (independent specialist) She can't wait to go back. Only 28 in the school spread over multiple sites so chances are she will come into contact with fewer people than if she went to the corner shop. School have thought long and hard on how to ensure they can safely reopen, I trust the school and won't be hesitating to send her back tbh.

Atm was planning on them going back in September assuming schools will be closed until then. If it's earlier than that will review at the time, depends if it's optional or not but would prefer not to send them in earlier than September.

and FB posts about how happy their children are to be back at school and how great it is to see them learning and soaking up information again as their young brains are primed to do.

Just a hunch.

They will be too busy making tik toks, playing, howling, gossiping to worry about Trigonometry and an Inspector Calls themes.

Who said only 4-10% have had it?! That’s bollocks!