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

[Baaaahhhhh]

YADNBU

[Whatsuppp]

YADNBU

[SimonJT]

YABU

I don’t have a fully functional spleen, not worth the risk.

[KoalasandRabbit]

The French thread on here showing what people are actually being offered is very interesting and variable - two different half days per child anyone?

[Drivingdownthe101]

I’d be fine with that, KoalasandRabbit

[Headbangersandmash]

You need to know the ages of the child and whether or not anyone in the household is shielding.

I have a y12 doing A-levels next summer and desperate to go back. In 6 years of secondary she's had less than a handful of days off so lucky in the health stakes

[DaisylovesDonald]

YADNBU
I will be sending mine back when schools open.
@KoalasandRabbit I’d be totally fine with that. I have no expectation that there’ll be any kind of return to full time schooling until at least September, I just want them to have something, some little version of normality.

[doubleshotespresso]

YABU

[shivermetimbers77]

YADNBU

[weepingwillow22]

My DS has an echp and has been back for 2 days a week for the last 2 weeks. The difference the 2 days at school has made to his behaviour at home is tremendous.

[Davidjh]

I'm extremely worried about the World our kids are going to grow up in, Not because of Clovid 19 ( Because virtually no healthy children have died from it) , But the implementations of it. Forced vaccinations etc and this is video describes a document proposed for schools in Canada, Which makes it seem more like a prison than a school 😢
youtu.be/VvDRW43Hfi0

[SimpleKindofLife]

YABU

I'd like to see testing available for everyone first, so anyone with symptoms can get tested easily and quickly. Preferably through their GP. Plus I'd like the antibody tests.

I've have/had Covid and I'm still ill with quite severe symptoms 6 weeks on. I'm a healthy active 39 woman with no underlying health conditions and I have a healthy BMI. I've never been so ill in my life - severe chest pains, trouble breathing, heart palpitations, shaking, tremors... For 6 weeks!!

I'm scared of the kids catching it and also bringing it home and I get reinfected. I can't go through this again - physically or mentally.

Plus better medical care. 111 doesn't want to know me anymore as I'm 'probably post Covid' now and my GP doesn't want to know as I might still be contagious?! A&E are doing the basic checks but can't help any further unless my breathing gets so bad my lips are blue and they won't test me unless I'm admitted. It's shambolic.

[Delta1]

YADNBU

[namechangenumber2]

I'll send DS2 back when I feel plans are in place to make it as safe as possible. So smaller classes, Rota system etc, lower death rates. I'm hoping that'll be next month!

[Lovemyphone]

Yadnbu.

I think those that want schools to stay closed are shouting the loudest.

[fasttracksign]

YADNBU.

OP - will you add up the percentages at the end as it looks nothing like that article!

[BolloxtoGender]

Yanbu

[nocutsnobuttsnococonuts]

As soon as its announced they can go back mine will have to as I work in a preschool so I would likely be back at work too and unable to look after them at home.

[RagamuffinAndFidget]

YADNBU

Mine are already back at school. I am not a key worker but I am battling with horrendous PTSD after the death of my youngest child last year, and my two living children were not coping without the SEN and emotional needs support they were receiving from school. So the head, the SENCO and I discussed it, and we felt it was in their best interests to go back, at least part-time. It's very relaxed and they can still have days at home if they want/need them (one of them has some medical issues too) but at least they have the support there if they need it. We did our best but being at home was starting to affect their mental health and I felt the risk of that was likely greater than the risk of Covid-19.

[TimeWastingButFun]

Probably, but it will start up a whole tricky situation, as I have to care for elderly relatives who are very vulnerable. I'm really hoping for September at least, when there will be more time to plan a safe way of getting back to normal.

[cocktailoclock]

YADNBU
Tomorrow please!
We are 95% certain we had it very mildly at start of lockdown
We are not in vulnerable category and are staying away from grandparents who are shielding.
Educational provision from the school has been rubbish
Eldest is showing signs of mental health challenges - was settled and happy before.
We are both working in very high pressured jobs which are wfh at moment. Mine is critical to covid response.
I am worried about my Mental health

[LilyPond2]

My decision on whether it's safe for DD to go back will depend on a combination of infection rates in my local area and whether they are rising or falling (based on estimates from the Kings College app covid.joinzoe.com/data), whether the government has put in place adequate measures to prevent people (staff or students) going into school if there is possible Covid-19 in their household, and whether there are measures in place to identify Covid-19 outbreaks in individual schools and shut them swiftly if necessary while testing is carried out. I very much doubt that I'll regard the risk as having reduced to an acceptable level as soon as 1 June. The government are still way off their testing targets and have not outlined any sensible measures for reducing risk in schools.

[stressbucket1]

I feel like the risk now is lower than when the schools closed so 1st June the risk should be lower still.
If the schools stay closed until Sept I would like some reassurance that their education would not be disrupted to the same level in the event of an autumn/winter spike.

[Bathroom12345]

Some don’t want to go back until Sept and some want to only go back when there is a proven vaccine.

They also want to be paid by whom ever they work for at 100% and be furloughed so that they don’t miss out on the home schooling. Woe bi tide anyone who suggests they are trying to use this epidemic for their own ends. Some of the threads on this are truly shocking. Do these people not recognise that this will spoil it for mainly women going forward. No employer will want to employ a women with children who at a moments notice claims that they are ‘special’. No employer wants someone who takes up so much of the company’s time with their own unique circumstances.

And if they want to stay at home that means no holidays, play dates, birthday parties, grandparents coming round, going to the beach. They do realise that dont they??

Who on earth do they think is going to pay for this. Oh wait.... everyone else (and that WILL include their own children!)

[LJL1]

YABU. The way this pandemic has been handled in the UK is an embarrassment.

Until I have confidence that the risk is acceptably low, my children will stay at home.

I'm not generally risk averse. My kids and I ride horses, and are rock climbers/mountaineers.

If the stakes were lower I would probably feel differently.

We can't resurrect dead loved ones, or restore lost organ function.

I'm a medic, with training in virology, immunology, epidemiology and public health, and am guided by critical appraisal of the emerging scientific evidence.