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

[LoisSangerAteMyHamster]

YABU

[JellyBelly78]

YABU

[Walkingtohealth]

Trustthegenegenie

You do realise that just because you and your children haven’t been anywhere this doesn’t apply to other children. Your children therefore are still not immune and neither are you.

Are you happy to risk them picking up the virus and potentially passing it on to you/older members of your family?

That’s the issue.

I don’t have young chikdren but if I did there’s no way I would be risking it.

It’s all academic anyway as schools are not going to open that quickly, there will be a slow and gradual opening and the infection and death rates will be monitored while they do this.

[halcyondays]

Yabu

[Bollss]

I know we're not immune?

If we do get it the likelihood is that we'd be fine. So yes I would be happy with that risk.

We won't be seeing elderly relatives or anyone who's shielding.

Presumably anyone attending school won't be going home to someone who's shielding?

[HipTightOnions]

Presumably anyone attending school won't be going home to someone who's shielding?

The teachers could well be.

[Bollss]

Surely the teachers will be able to make that decision themselves though?

[HipTightOnions]

I think it has been suggested that they could resign, that’s true.

[Frustratedsenmummy]

My sen child has been in since the start

[Frustratedsenmummy]

And I'm worried less about this than when you hear "Johnny puked everywhere in class today" and noro sweeps through

[Duckchick]

DS probably won't go back immediately. He's 5, and while I'm not that worried about the virus, I'm very worried about how upsetting he'd find the form of school he's likely to go back to. Constantly being told to stay away from friends, not being allowed near the teacher, weird collection and pick up patterns all seem likely to happen. I'm currently on maternity leave so don't need the childcare though which makes it an easier decision.

[ArthurMorgan]

I want to send her but dp is adamant dd (5) isn't going back yet.. I've asked what he thinks will have changed by September but there's no answer except she's not going to school . She needs to for her mental health apart from anything else, she's finding it all really hard.

[BeltaneBride]

YADBNU

[ArthurMorgan]

ArfArfBarf my god, I may have just revised my earlier comment... 😬. That sounds like a really awful environment! Poor kids 🙁

[MissDollyMix]

YADNBU. Im lucky, I can work from home. I don’t find it too onerous having the children at home but for their sakes they really need to go back. They need routine and they need socialisation. I do understand that in homes where there is someone who is at high risk this may not be so straightforward.

[cocktailoclock]

I get that in won't be the same as normal school, I get that it will be weird but frankly so is going for a walk and seeing people with gloves and face masks and not seeing their grandparents and their friends is also weird.
But being a home with two parents- distracted and stressed - trying to hold down pressured jobs is not good for either of them. And no - we can't take leave and can't ask to be furloughed

[theclangersbigplan]

YABU I'd like to wait a while longer.
But only because: my personal circumstances allow me to have them at home; I am concerned about how different and unnerving school
life might be at first; and in many ways they are getting more out of being at home than they would at this stage of the school year.
I would try to increase their social interaction though (at the moment they are video calling their friends).

[Keepdistance]

the zoe app is showing 1% of people currently infected so thats a lot to spread around. And actually would be 4.5 kids in our school plus many more parents etc.

it isnt just deaths it is also the risk of permanent lung/heart damage)
Also i would rather wait and have a teacher for dd to go back to (she must be 50+)
It's not going to be much good if teachers are left so out of breath they cant talk to the class. (Ive been ill with something and couldnt read dd a story. )

If you guys want routine and the kids to socialise and let you work why not set up a zoom call bectween your kids from say 9.30 and they can work on the same work together?

Anyway my main hope is that it is voluntary as everyones situation is different i appreciate people wfh or out of home or very young is different. Compared to vulnerable or shielded or with a parent 50+ or gp living with them or pregnant or young baby.
The shielded are 1.4m and vulnerable 17m so some of those will be parents.
Also although the kawasaki is very low numbers they are expecting an increase as it takes weeks to come on.
If we go for ft with no precautions we would be almost the only country (and obviously the only one with such high death rates).
The others are trying very hard to minimise risks.
In reality parents will continue to send their d&v child to school and feverish and coughing - they will be saying 'well they cant spread it'

[Drivingdownthe101]

If you guys want routine and the kids to socialise and let you work why not set up a zoom call bectween your kids from say 9.30 and they can work on the same work together?

Oh come on, that’s not socialising for young kids is it? Children need to play with other children, not talk to them on a computer screen. It’s recognised as a fundamental part of their development.
I’m not at all advocating that they all go back school full time en masse. But it’s laughable to pretend that a zoom call is an adequate substitution for children playing with their peers.

[mumoftwodc]

YABU

[ElsasSalamander]

YADNBU - mine will be going back then regardless as I’m going back to work. DH is keyworker & unable to look after them while I’m at work.

[Drivingdownthe101]

And how can you set up zoom calls for your children when you’re using the laptop yourself to work on, for example?

[ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule]

I really wonder what people think the socialising and routine will actually look like. I don't think routine will be anywhere near what it was, and as for socialising, kids might be able to see each other but the likelihood of actually mixing is tiny. Someone I know said on FB that they want their year 6 child back ASAP so she can 'have a proper end to primary'. But I don't think she realises that even if they went back in June, there won't be the usual stuff that actually ends primary school for Year 6s. There won't be a disco/prom, there won't be a celebration assembly, there won't be an awards ceremony, no one will be allowed to write ok each other's t shirts or pose for group photos. No big huge whole year group goodbye photo in the sunshine on the playground. There's not even a guarantee classes will look the same. If it's going to be eight to a classroom and playtimes staggered, when will they even see most of their friends? And what will their actual education look like in lesson time? Kids these days learn collaboratively, they speak to each other and to adults to share ideas, they work in pairs and small groups. How much of that will go on from 2m apart? It's scary how different it's going to have to look for a while. How is that normal routine and socialising? I'm so worried.

[Hedgehog44]

I'll send him the the day they tell me to.

[Greenmarmalade]

YABU