What's so magic about September?

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I'm seeing, on here and on Facebook, parents saying they won't send their children back to school until September.
What will have changed by then?

The way I see it is this is going to be around for a long time, it could be years before we get a vaccine. We can't stay locked down forever.

There will be a 2nd peak, isn't it better it's in the summer than in winter when the NHS is already full of seasonal flu etc?

I'm sick of being made to feel like I'm murdering my child by sending her back in June.

I work in a nursery, if we don't open soon we'll go out of business along with many others.

The rate of infection slope should carry on hoing down week after week, intil such point as track and trace measures and more localised mini lockdowns vecome effective. Returning to normal sooner risk exponential growth which is what caused the lockdown.

This has been done to death pardon the pun.

You are not murdering your child but you are increasing the chance for illness or death of others.

Time for test and trace and drugs to be developed and time to see if sending a year group back affects the rate of R.

The death rate and infection rate should be lower by then.

No other countries are fully back yet.

It's all so rushed to have the Whole of primary back so yes some extra people may die.

Unless we stay locked down till September (which we won’t), nothing will be different by then I suspect.

4 more months of researching and learning about the virus.

4 more months of being able to source and stock PPE for teachers and children if that is what’s required.

4 more months of learning about transmission and children’s roles within it.

4 more months of research into how children are being affected by the virus - I.e all the Kawasaki symptoms.

4 more months of research into the best way to treat the virus.

4 more months of research into how transmission can be reduced and 4 more months of proper planning to keep our children and teachers safe in schools as opposed to this rushed 3 week procedure they’ve put in place which leaves a lot to be desired.

Most people I know, myself included, who are not sending their kids back in June are saying, possibly September. Not definitely September. We’ll be reassessing for September but to be honest, no, I don’t think my child will be going back in September.

Because hopefully by then the government will have put in effective test, trace isolate procedures meaning we will know where the outbreaks are, and have localised lockdowns to deal with them, rather than the current unknown general community transmission.

I'm not even sure if I'll send my daughter back in n September. There needs to be more information on how schools will manage and I'm not just thinking about my child but our whole family, our school family and also the families that I serve as a childminder. There is no way I that I would be able to safely take my child to school with mindees in tow and IMO it's far too much mixing and taking too many risks. I totally get those who want or need their children to return to school but for me and mine now is just not the right time.