Would you send your kids to school in June / July

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If there is already a thread on this I will ask for it to be deleted.

Hypothetically if the government say schools can open in June / July and you can send them if you wish or you could wait until September would you send them?

Not taking into account any additional needs other siblings may have or your mental health or needing to work etc.

I'll send mine - 4 DC, of whom 3 are school age and missing school very much. Finding it very difficult to home school without neglecting youngest and have pretty much have to give up on work (self employed but don't qualify for grant). But it's more for their happiness, they all really need the structure and their friends.

We are lucky though that we are all generally healthy. It would be nice to start people thinking about a return to some sort of normality - my parents live at the other end of the country, I haven't seen them since Christmas and am beginning to think I won't see them before the next one. It is unlikely
to be entirely safe for many, many months but I don't think the intention was ever to close the schools until the virus had gone.

Agree! A lot if people are fed up of speculating. The unions and papers and even ministers have said it isn't helpful.

Given the way several threads end up with ' teacher bashing'

I guess we are a tad sensitive.

Doubtful. And I say this as a working parent of two 14 year olds.

Mine go to school in inner city hotspots. One gets a taxi, the other a bus. One has asthma.

Piggy Riga sadly the staffroom becoming the playground isn't a good look.

Every single one of us is stressed at the moment. We are in unprecedented times and we are all worried for different reasons and we probably all need to think a wee bit more at times.

One thing I am going to do is get angrier and angrier at this excuse for a govt and those that play the strings.

I didn't want it politicised, but they are the ones turning people against each other again. They have done it since 2016 and its the way they govern.

You shouldn't be worried about being safe when schools open and parents shouldn't be worried as we know the government has got a plan.

Let's start pointing the blame where it lies.

They are more interested in the Brexit ideology than getting PPE and ventilators.

It should have read that we shouldn't have to worry as we are confident that the govt have a plan.

And sorry for the essay

Yes. DS is 17, has no underlying health problems and in Year 12. He isn't really stretching himself working from home, so it would do him good.

Fair enough. I shouldn’t have singled you out.

Your name was just that bit more memorable than the poster who commented a shit tonne of duplicate thread links 😏

Yes

Why stop people having the conversations they want to have? If you don't want to read another duplicate 'done to death's thread then don't.

Damn, should say 'done to death'. Where's my edit button? Oh no that's on the other site ;-)

Why stop people having the conversations they want to have? If you don't want to read another duplicate 'done to death's thread then don't.

*To be fair Mumsnet used to combine them back in the day.

In answer to op I would not send my dd in no but we live with a vulnerable group.*

Absolutely not! I guess in 2 days parents have realised how tricky teaching your kids can be as opinion appears to have changed on here in 2 days.

However I cant see how it would be at all sensible and we wouldnt send back et all.

Teaching kids whilst trying to also do your job is not easy.

I don't imagine it's even easy for teachers.

And its completely different from homeschooling.

No

I’ll send DS back when I have to go back to work, when large gatherings are allowed.

We are in Scotland and mine finish up on the 24th June so no I wouldn't send them in July .

Not a chance, I work in a school and know what it was like there in the couple of days before we locked down, half the parents in my class didn’t send their children in and the ones that did come in it was a nightmare to keep them apart from each other. They were hugging each other, play fighting, holding hands etc, we drummed it into them about hand washing and hygiene and they were still coughing without covering their mouths, picking noses, touching faces etc etc. These are 9 year old children btw not little ones!! And those who say children do not have it and if they do only mildly, I can assure you they may not but they most definitely are germ spreaders!! So not a snowballs he’ll in chance will mine be going back anytime soon!

*snowballs chance in hell!

Yes. This virus isn't going to disappear. I think get back out there a be sensible.

All those saying absolutely not, do you not work then or are you planning to resign??

YES I would.

September is not a magical, safe month where no harm is guaranteed. I find this obsession with September a bit odd to be honest. Corona will still be around in Sept only it will also be coming into flu season - the worst possible time for a second wave.

September is not a magical, safe month where no harm is guaranteed. I find this obsession with September a bit odd to be honest. Corona will still be around in Sept only it will also be coming into flu season - the worst possible time for a second wave.

Well its really July. It gives more time to get testing and contact tracing in place.

Well its really July. It gives more time to get testing and contact tracing in place

I mean the people on MN who keep banging on about how we should all stay fully locked down until Sept. For some reason, people seem to be obsessed with September and I have no idea why!

I’d like to send my Y6 back after half term so she gets closure on her time at primary school but I guess it depends on how well lockdown has worked. I’m not too worried for us but I am for my mum.