Schools won't be reoping on 1 June, and if they do, I won't be sending my child

[effingterrified]

Unions will be doing what they exist to do and protecting the health of their members.

Until Boris can provide teachers with a safe workplace ie PPE for all staff, adequate social distancing, etc, unions will be telling members not to go in.

And if they do open, I won't be sending my child in as they wouldn't learn anything in the last few weeks under these conditions, and the health risks not only to the children, but to the teachers and parents, are not worth it.

Plus my child relies on a school bus to get to school and there is zero way of socially distancing on one of them. Or of running 3 school buses, say, per route, at an affordable cost.

Also, my dc is happy as Larry off school, and learning as much or more. Let's face it, how many kids object to longer school holidays? I know there are some eg vulnerable kids, but they can already attend at present.

Fed up of threads pretending all parents can't wait for schools to reopen. Not among the ones I know.

Good for you, I really don't think anyone will give a shiny shit if you send your child or not

In the whole of my county there have been 100 cases in May tested positive. It’s likely most of these were care home. If these levels stay; I’d say there is more chance of my child being hit by a car on the way to school.
I’ll be sending them back, for their l Health, happiness, and mine, as long as loca cases stay fairly low. I may make a different choice of cases start rising.

Luckily the Unions are taking this up on behalf of staff. Given with the rapid increase in cases of this new inflammatory syndrome in kids which is escalating in the States (in kids showing antibodies ie recovered from Covid19) I doubt very much schools will open either. Crazy that some thinks it’s ok to use children as guinea pigs! The effects of this virus are still very much unknown.

When you say escalating, can you provide any numbers and your source? Also for the UK?

@eyewhisker if that's the case they should let children go back to school as they know it. Not with resources removed, separated from their peers and familiar adults and spread around the school with lots of new restrictions in place.

Also, how long do you think you have to keep your children home and how can you afford to do that?

Don't you need to work?

That's nice. Thanks for starting a whole thread on this when there's already so many. Take care!

Interesting that Downing Street has suddenly stopped showing the international comparison slides which it had been using for each for the past 7 weeks. What on Earth could be the reason for that?
Starmer just took Johnson to pieces at PMQs - only his 4th one. Johnson will step down well before 2024 if he has any sense or if he thinks the Tories should continue to govern this country - perhaps he's seen the light.

Mine will be home too. I won’t send them in June.

Happy to wait to see what happens and take it from there.

Who is paying you to stay at home with them?

^*Honestly the teacher hatred and self serving nature is astounding.

They turn up at work and say who can we hate on today? Teachers - yes. We'll trust them with our children's lives, but when they tell us they don't feel safe, we'll just tell them to jog on, the feckless job-shy layabouts.*^

I certainly do not have hate for teachers. I've always had the absolute utmost respect and admiration for them. I'm a parent that does absolutely everything the school asks of me. I'm the first to defend when people criticise the long holidays, I never moan about things.

However the way some teachers are behaving at the moment is shocking. There are teachers going on the news and on here who haven't even read the guidelines and shut literally anything down as impossible.

Moving forward nothing is going to be easy and nothing is going to be exactly the way it was before. But other professions have had to put their heads together and make the best of a bad situation.

If schools don't return until September the virus won't be gone, but children will have missed months of education. It's all very well saying there's no point, it won't be the same but a few weeks at school will make an enormous difference to some children.

When I said to her she may be able to go back to nursery her eyes lit up.
You what???? You told your child she "may" be able to go back to nursery?
What in the world made you think it was a good idea to get her hopes up like that?

I think some of you are missing the point. Teachers want to go back and TEACH

I'm sure they do , just like all the other people currently forced to do jobs other than their own. The library staff working in children's hubs and manning helplines. The plumbers doing pharmacy deliveries, dentists helping in hospitals etc etc. Most people are just doing what need done.

but children will have missed months of education.

Not if they and their parents are engaging with what's available, they won't have. I accept that it seems that some schools aren't sending out as much as others, but if that were the case for my children, I would be getting pro-active and hunting down Oak Academy and Bitesize materials and using those instead of slagging off the entire teaching profession.

@helpfulperson so let's call it what it is. An increase in childcare provision by schools to let parents go back to work. Let's not pretend what our children will be getting is education.

But seriously, is your child being lonely or stir crazy enough of an excuse to potentially kill her friend's parent/s?

Are you actually thick as well as smug??

^* think some of you are missing the point. Teachers want to go back and TEACH

I'm sure they do , just like all the other people currently forced to do jobs other than their own. The library staff working in children's hubs and manning helplines. The plumbers doing pharmacy deliveries, dentists helping in hospitals etc etc. Most people are just doing what need done.*^

Fucking exactly! Hardly any jobs are doing exactly what they were before. We've all had to adapt massively.

effingterrified, in your place I wouldn't be sending mine back to school. We can put up with 'lockdown', such as it is, for a few more weeks.

So when will it be truly safe to send the kids to school?

There are so many mothers like you online banging on about how they wont be returning their kids to school as though they are better parents and their children are more precious than anyone elses. If all NHS staff and teachers said the same then what would happen?

Alot of companies will want their staff back or will probably fire them, if you have a mortgage to pay then you are screwed.

think some of you are missing the point. Teachers want to go back and TEACH

I want to go back and do social work. I'm doing my job to about 40% capacity at the moment. Not going into anyone's house, most contacts via video call, no face to face meetings - it's crap. I'm also being well paid by public funds to not do my job properly.

Great, those who don't need or want to send their kids to school don't have to so you're grand. And hopefully means that those of us who do need it can get to send our children more days a week.

OP

I haven’t RTFT but - How are you at home? Are you

1. A SAHP?

1. Furloughed by the government?

1. Or are you employed full-time and working from home round The clock what juggling that with full-time childcare round the clock?

That will help understand your perspective a bit.

Incredible. On a thread about whether or not parents will send kids back to school there are posts implying that teachers are workshy and 'sitting around all day'. And shouldn't have jobs. Which is bugger all to do with the original post.

@terriblehairdon'tcare I agree. I think there are lots of people who think that they're children will be getting something similar to the education they had before on 1st June. This will not be the case. Why don't the govt be honest and say we want schools to take in more children as childcare provision to get the economy going? Teachers have happily been doing this for key worker children for weeks and I'm sure would continue to do so for increased amounts of children. Let's not pretend it's education though.

@codenamevillanelle for you. It's crap not being able to do your job.

Good. Please don’t. There’ll be more room for mine. Those who are terrified of this virus can continue to hide & ignore the actual fact hardly anyone under 45 has died. In fact the death rate for age groups up to 45 are lower than average when compared to previous years. It is not deadly to most young people. Rather a nasty virus we’ll shake off in a couple weeks. Much like all the other nasty viruses we’ve lived with our whole lives and never been concerned.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t try to protect our elderly & vulnerable with track trace etc which is coming our way shortly. But I’m so sick of people harping on about the serious danger to children & younger adults. It’s really not to the vast majority.