This is why I won't be sending my children back to school

[softjellycell]

1 primary school teacher tests positive for corona virus
18 children have come into contact with the virus
18 key workers have to stop work
30 teaching colleagues have to stop work and self isolate.
Key worker children no longer have any provision at that school.
Bristol May 14th 2020.

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-coronavirus-updates-bristol-teacher-4135096

DBLM
I will hone educate him myself
🤔

@3cats

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30109-7/fulltext&ved=2ahUKEwiE2teVw7jpAhXMThUIHaT4ANAQFjAGegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw1ZqrBKiPeGFrW-Wsqqbf5T

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=pharmaphorum.com/news/kids-mental-health-app-sees-spike-in-users-in-covid-19-crisis/&ved=2ahUKEwiE2teVw7jpAhXMThUIHaT4ANAQFjAHegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw3jRrHrw6kkoXpIM-Mj8Gtk

Doesn't look like it..not for the majority anyway though for some, being off school may be a good thing.

And we won't be given any real figures of increase in suicides or self-harm until well into the future due to strict guidelines on reporting suicides during COVID.

Obviously you’re posting like your personal decision is a matter of public interest, and everyone needs to know. When actually they don’t and don’t really care.

The same could be applied to your post, typing as if you speak for everyone.
I’m interested in op’s post. You don’t speak for me.

How about, if you think the thread is irrelevant to you, don’t read it and just move on?

@croprotationinthe13thcentury

Do I really have to come back just to say that is supposed to say “home”?

Could you really not work that out for yourself?

@OneandTwenty I’m a keyworker here and don’t know any of my colleagues who say schools shouldn’t open to more children.

A friend living abroad, told me that suicides are down by 20% since social distancing started

I would take those statistics with a pinch of salt. It's more difficult to do it when the whole family is home all the time and other more practical consideration regarding the methods as well.

Oh get over yourself DBLM ffs

A friend living abroad, told me that suicides are down by 20%

That's Japan, in adults, and it's been attributed to less contact with bullying bosses in that particular problematic corporate culture. Tricky data misusage there, PP, very tricky.

I think everyone with an opinion on whether schools should open should read what the Children’s Commissioner has to say about it.

www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cco-we-dont-need-no-education.pdf

Just de register your child and home educate.

you know that's not the point at all, and we are not talking about "home education" here.

I can understand the reluctance of parents to send their children back to school. I read an article that said that the first wave of Spanish flu barely touched kids and young people so everyone thought they were ok. But it mutated for the second wave and was devastating to this group, hitting them harder than other groups. With the emergence of this new syndrome in kids, parental fear is understandable. Yes, it's currently extremely rare and we all hope it stays that way, but we really don't know where this disease is going to go next.

That's Japan, in adults, and it's been attributed to less contact with bullying bosses in that particular problematic corporate culture.

or,

the result of delays to start of school year, less commuting and more time with family

you can interpret the statistics are you please and find arguments either way.

Why is this not about home education. Surely if someone doesn’t send their kid to school they will be home educating. You can’t just pull them out, do fuck all or an hour a day and say you’re educating them or decided your kids shouldn’t be educated.

So yeah by default it is about home educating. If someone doesn’t wish to send their kid in, that’s fine, they don’t have to. But they do need to home educate instead.

@PicsInRed

I wasn’t misusing any data. Many people have posted on MN that kids need to get back to school as soon as possible for the sake of their mental health. However, I haven’t seen any data that conclusively confirms a decline in the mental health of children since being off school. I know my kids have been a lot happier and more settled without school. It will be interesting to see what the long term data will show on this.

However, I haven’t seen any data that conclusively confirms a decline in the mental health of children since being off school

No. Because nobodies asking. Nobody cares as long as you're not dying of covid.

I know my kids have been a lot happier and more settled without school

Great! Many haven't.

Ds is already in school as a vulnerable child. Sometimes the alternative is less safe. The chance in his case of him taking the virus into school is tiny so we are not putting staff at risk by sending him in.

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=youngminds.org.uk/about-us/reports/coronavirus-impact-on-young-people-with-mental-health-needs/&ved=2ahUKEwjH_tXqybjpAhU3TxUIHQerBZwQFjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw02IhJj24SLc0aeLaZ6_WEe

@3cats

"I know my kids have been a lot happier and more settled without school"

Well that happening in your house proves it must be happening in every house.

Many people have posted on MN that kids need to get back to school as soon as possible for the sake of their mental health. However, I haven’t seen any data that conclusively confirms a decline in the mental health of children since being off school

But surely you can see that they’re talking about their children, and surely they know their children best?

So, I’ll let everyone else’s kids go back to school first and wait to see what happens

🙄

OP - I'm having fish and green beans for dinner tonight. I'm not telling everyone about it.

This makes no sense. You don't self isolate because you've come into contact with a positive case. Whoever you got this from obviously didn't read the guidance and sent a load of people home unnecessarily.

Well that’s because the rules are ridiculous. I am nhs, if my colleague tests positive I don’t go off sick else there wouldn’t be any one left to run the department. Th year are talking about forcing everyone off if someone displays symptoms, never minds test positive.

OP - I'm having fish and green beans for dinner tonight. I'm not telling everyone about it

and yet here you are......