Last one! Would you send your child to school..

[Biscuit0110]

On the 1st of June?

The times said apparently most parents would not return their children to school, but that is not my experience on here.

YABU - would not send their child to school
YADNBU - Send their child to school on the 1st of June

[EasterIssland]

Yabu meanly because there has been threads about this and there will be threads like this so it won’t be the last one. Whatever you do with your family is your decision and so should be what I do with mine

[GinNotGym19]

Yanbu
There hasn’t been any reported cases of key workers children catching it or spreading it at schools so I will send mine back.

[Eyewhisker]

YADNBU - Teens are more likely to commit suicide than die of the virus.

[TheSmelliestHouse]

Yadnbu

[imsooverthisdrama]

Omg how many threads on this subject!!!!
It's been done to death.

[okiedokieme]

Yes, I was offered a keyworker place in fact - unfortunately the kids refused to go on the grounds of being adults . (I'm the area coordinator for aid and local council liaison person offered to send me a letter to my kids school to get them a place without realising their ages!). They are attending online lectures for university though

[SummerHouse]

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-head-teachers-fear-ghost-schools-as-parents-keep-children-at-home-7kxgm36gx

WTAF

"According to a Mumsnet survey only one in five would send their children back to school...."

I can't read the rest as I am not subscribed but what survey? One in five!!!? That is shoddy, selective, sensationalist reporting.

[SpringerJS]

YADNBU. Back in as soon as they can.

[W00t]

YABU.
The online poll said 90% would not send their child back. Schools round here are ridiculously overcrowded due to the escalating birth rate for last 15 years. There is no way there can be any social distancing, even disregarding young children's behaviour (draped all over one another, nose picking, etc).
The corridors and staircases in my school are barely 2m wide. DS' school also has small poky rooms.
Maybe if they had 10% of children in at a time.

[W00t]

Sorry, the poll was the ?parentline one done earlier this week.

[Mummyoflittledragon]

YADNBU

What fucking Mumsnet survey? If we are going to be surveyed in this way, we should at least get a heads up about the bloody survey. This is something, which needs addressing. I’m sure it would have been easy enough to send out a round robin mail.

[RigaBalsam]

YABU

This is a daily ritual now.

[Willowmartha1]

Yadnbu

[Bubbletwix]

Yes, I’d have mine there on Monday given the option.

[Appuskidu]

Oh, if only that were true and this really were the ‘last one’ about schools reopening

YABU

[girlicorne]

Mine will be going back when school reopens. I trust that when this happens it will be safe to do so. They need their friends and their education and a bit of normality.

[ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule]

YABU. For me, it's more than the virus risk. It's the mental health aspect of attending school when it will be nothing like normality. If I don't have to send my kids in to have to sit at one desk, not interact normally with their peers, not be taught by their usual teachers, go to the toilet one at a time, not play team sports, not have assemblies, not do an end of year production, then I won't. That's not school as they've ever known it, and definitely not in a good way. I think it'll be worse for my DCs to have to deal with that than it would be for them to stay off. I understand why people want to send their kids in asap, I really do, but if I don't have to I won't.

[EachDubh]

Either, if achools are open it is up to the parent or carer to make the jusgement call that is right for them. Also mumsnet is many things but I hope it does not truly represent the feelings of the whole of the UK on all subjects 🙄

[Inandoutthedustybluebells]

YABU

[Whitestick]

That's a good point Zelda. In my home my dc don't seem particularly worried about the virus. They have their usual entertainments Back at a school with no football club, no playing with all your mates at interval, not having all your teachers and being told to wash your hands every five minutes would be very far from "back to normal"

[JustOneSquareofDarkChocolate]

YADNBU

I was horrified to see the “Mumsnet survey” being quoted in the times. Really irresponsible reporting referring to casual polls as a gospel indication of the mood of the nation - how about a properly constructed statistically sound survey to reflect the makeup of all UK parents, not just a self selecting group of a few hundred mnetters.

[Tatum1234]

No I won’t, I’m in the vulnerable group and can’t see how any distancing can happen for them in school. They’ve only missed 24 days so far so I’m not worried about their education yet.

[Aroundtheworldin80moves]

I'll send mine if I'm confident that sensible measures have been put in place to protect staff while maintaining a degree of normalcy for the children. Part time ideally.

[JustOneSquareofDarkChocolate]

I should probably also add that my DC never stopped going to school as I am a key worker. There are now 30 kids in two classrooms using the provision at their school and it’s working well for parents, children and teachers. I’m not worried about social distancing when the return in full as my children don’t have any underlying health conditions nor do my husband or I. So statistically we are all much more likely to die from meningitis (the children) or cancer (me and DH). Their grandparents will continue to shield and we will continue to keep well away from them.

[unlimiteddilutingjuice]

I've written this whole academic year off. They can return after the summer.