So who will be returning their children to school in June?

[Bigfishylittlefishy]

Just that really. Parents of reception, year 1 and year 6, IF schools return on the 1st of June, will you send your child in?

My son is in reception and I would be willing to send him in.

@MonkeyToesOfDoom. There were confirmed cases in my DC’s school in the weeks before lockdown. I can assure you that the Petri dish did not overflow quickly. In fact, the school remained open at all times and very few children showed symptoms.

In fact, the school remained open at all times and very few children showed symptoms.

Hey that's great.. especially when you realise that kids can carry and spread it to others without showing symptoms themselves. 👍

"I think my house is a bit biased when discussing virus-y things though as near 100% sure we had it in december. Kids 'didnt catch it' which was odd as kids always get what we have, but given kids 'catch it' but tend to not show symptoms, that makes sense."

Maybe with my 5 year old. It depends on how their going to arrange things ( she has 40 children in her class )

With DS i won't be sending him back to nursery. Nursery have said they have to maintain the 2m rule inside the classroom and all children over 2 have to wear a face mask. My 3 year old will not keep a mask on his face and he won't abide by social distancing either, he likes to cuddle and be cuddled ect. I feel awful on him that his sister might be able to have a bit of normality and see friends and he cant

@MonkeyToesOfDoom I don’t appreciate your sarcasm. I have given you a clear example of why I don’t agree with your comments but that’s all you can can offer back?! None of the other parents that I know have reported symptoms - apart from DH and myself. Almost every child in my DC’s classes attended school right up to school ending - there was no large scale isolating of families which means that (1) the children hasn’t passed it on or (2) they did and the parents were also asymptomatic.

2) they did and the parents were also asymptomatic

Well done, now you're beginnig to show a glimmer of thinking capability.
Keep going with this thought, see where it takes you.

Kids in school get it, kids show lesser or no symptoms.
Kid passes it to an adult who also shows lesser or no symptoms, has no cough so assumes they're fine.
That adult could the pass it to who?
A) someone with health problems
B) someone over 60
C) anyone they come into contact with
D) a horse

Answers on a postcard to:
748 Cufferringup Road
Covidington
CV1955K

Mine is in year 3, but she will go back as soon as they allow her. 1st of June is 3 weeks away, the death and infection rates will have fallen by then, and if they haven't we won't move on to stage 2. I don't think we can judge what we will do in 3 weeks based on this weeks stats as the situation is moving.

@MonkeyToesOfDoom So now all you can do is insult me! I have first hand experience which shows to me that it either doesn’t spread quickly or is very mild for most people. If children or teachers have underlying conditions that makes them vulnerable, they should stay at home, not the entire school population.

If children or teachers have underlying conditions that makes them vulnerable, they should stay at home, not the entire school population.

Ooo so close...
Still, never mind.. let's have a look and see what you could have won... A speedboat..

Fyi.
Teachers and.children with underlying problems aren't the issue.
Children becoming carries and spreading it to the user populace is the issue.
I know, I know, it's hard to grasp.

Let's have some fun with Dick, Jane and Xanthor.

Little Dick is a happy and healthy child.
He sits in class on June 1st.
Jane is a happy child too, but she unknowingly has brought Colin the Covid to school. Oh dear.
Colin The Covid loves hiding on clothes, surfaces, door handles and where ever he can get, the tinker..
Little Dick doesn't realise Colin is hiding on the door handle of the class, on the desk top he's sat at or on his favourite blue school jumper.
Little Dick gives Jane a hug and heads his merry way home. What a happy day.
Two weeks later, little Dick is happily having a bed time cuddle with his mummy. She reads him a bed time story and kisses him good night. Little Dick loves his mummy. But, oh no, Colin has hidden himself on Dicks mummy. Dick's mummy doesn't realise and Colin chuckles quietly to himself.
Dick's mummy is happy and healthy and heads off to work.
Dick's mummy loves going to work.
Colin, that little sneak, tags along.
Xanthor greats Dicks mummy as she pops into to change his bed clothes.
Poor Xanthor isn't very well at the moment.
His lungs aren't as young as they used to be.
Xanthor talks to Dick's mummy about missing his granddaughter Jane, Dick's mummy tells Xanthor how Dick is doing at school and that he is in Janes class.
Sneaky Colin listens to them chat and then hides amongst Xanthors bed clothes, he is a very good hider.
A month later and Xanthor dies, alone and desperately ill in an ICU ward.
Little Jane never got to say good bye to Grandad Xanthor.
Dick still loves his mummy, Fanny.
Colin the Covid now has lots of new friends at the home where Xanthor lived.
The end.
Tune in next week when Colin goes on an adventure to the Children's Hospital and meets Brian, Terry and Bruce.

I've read some patronising posts on here in my time but that is off the scale....

This 'us' and 'them' mentality is not helping anyone.
The judgement being dished out at people doing their best to make the right, informed decisions for their families is disgusting.

Try having some compassion and understanding that everyone is experiencing this differently but everyone is finding it hard.

I'm definitely not sending my year 5 back. I may let her go back for the last week in July or something. The government have said there will be NO fines if you don't so I'm not taking the risk.

But I can stay at home as I'm not working and have a toddler, plus her homeschooling and 11 plus is going really well

SueEllenMishke

Not nice, is it?

Everyone has to do what they feel is right, in their own circumstances.

(Personally, I won’t be because we have vulnerabilities. I completely understand though that other people don’t.
I do believe there must be appropriate health and safety measures in place for teachers, though, as I would expect for all workers)

Try having some compassion and understanding that everyone is experiencing this differently but everyone is finding it hard.

Compassion for people keen and willing to spread a lethal disease. Yeah... Kay..

Oh and if you're finding it hard to stay in your own home with your own kids... Something has gone very wrong for you.

Exactly chilli
People seem so blinkered.
My son's class WhatsApp is the same to the point I've had to mute it.

There's an assumption that you're either furloughed or there's a parent not working....and some people think only key workers have been working. It's bizarre.
Both me and DH are working full-time from home. We aren't key workers but we're busier than ever. I'm currently having to work 7 days just to keep up and be able to do some home learning and DH is the same.
It's not sustainable.

It's not sustainable

Don't worry. When your kid brings it home and you and DH become a statistic in the next peak you won't have to worry about paying for your meaningless junk any more. 👍

Since when was a house and food meaningless junk?

Don't be a dick.....

Ok, so it really won't be sustainable for most parents to be able to work for another 4 months without any childcare. Many are at breaking point. And economically it is a disaster - also for those kids educationally if their parents are trying to work and don't have time to home educate.

So, for those who don't want schools to go back yet, would you accept that schools and nurseries should open so far as possible for small groups of children - say, up to 8 children per adult kept separate from other small groups so far as possible ONLY for those with under 8 year olds with two working parents (on their working days) or deprived children?

Those small groups could then go through school worksheets set by the school - at the moment, my key worker friends' children do not get any assistance with their work at school from the same teachers who set that work. They are civil servants working until the early hours every night on the government's coronavirus response and are having that same teacher who set the work call them to ask why they haven't uploaded their daughter's phonics work. They pick their kids up at 5.30 - are they supposed to cram this work in between 5.30 and bedtime? You really couldn't make it up. Some teachers just don't have any empathy for parents - I understand that some parents don't have enough empathy for teachers either by the way.

It's also too early to know what is going happen ..... we're still very much talking 'if'.

I'm a governor at my son's school. I trust them to make the right decisions for their pupils.

Oh and if you're finding it hard to stay in your own home with your own kids... Something has gone very wrong for you.

I am finding it hard to work full time with my kids here. They are finding it hard for me to be working full time when they can't see their mates or play out all day.

OK?

Since when was a house and food meaningless junk?

Don't be a dick.

I'm not the one eager to risk people's lives for the sake of paying a bank, car company, mobile phone provider, sky etc.

If the schools opening causes a second peak and 150000 people end up dead by christmas, is that acceptable to you as long as you can continue swapping your time on earth to pay for your car?

For our situation the risk is very, very, very minimal as is the risk to others. Both working from home, food bring delivered and literally no contact with anyone outside our house. We've looked at the evidence and considered our individual circumstances. I know that the risk will be different for others and I don't judge or make assumptions about other people's circumstances.

Going on about people working to pay for luxuries isn't doing you any favours. It's just making you sound like a dick......and like those posters who berate working mothers claiming they're only working for luxuries.

Cringe at that crazy little story upthread. Noro, MRSA or the flu could have killed off Xanthor. Shall we all just all hide indefinitely until the world has been bleached and we're immunised for everything? A cure is unlikely for a very long time, if at all, it's only ever been steadying the flow for the NHS. It's quite apparent the strategy was always herd immunity. It was the planned informed response from Sage but after the mass hysteria that provoked, Dominic Cummings had to work his magic to make us all think you could paint rainbows and bang pans to get us through this. Xanthor was always going to the wall.