Don't put him next to a key worker kid ...

[VicesReturning]

To all the parents apparantly worried and complaining to school about your child having to be in a bubble with a key worker kid ...

Most of these kids have already had it and are likely (though we know not definitely) immune right now!

So they are probably the ones you should be hoping little Jonny sits next to!

[lunar1]

Ds1 is in year 6. Our school hasn't let us know their plans yet but has asked all the parents how we would want the return to school to look.

My feedback was that they should do compressed time, either am or pm so no meals would be needed and just the core subjects. I also feel that this would need to be academically streamed. The disparity in the class is massive and it makes sense if the my have to do small classes anyway that they should be with children doing the same work in class.

I can't imagine what parents have requested of the school!

[Drivingdownthe101]

Our school are academically streaming, to make it easier to target the learning.

[lazylockdowner]

From parents I've spoken to at our school they don't have a issue with the key workers kids just with the school who will be changing the keyworkers bubble group on a daily basis I.e on a Monday and Thursday they will be in key worker bubble but on the Tuesday and Friday they will go in with there class.

So now every child in our school has been mixed directly or indirectly with every child and member of staff... seems like madness.

[AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter]

Anyone who ostracises little kids like that deserves covid and I hope they get it. The deserve it.

What a vile thing to say

[ChasingRainbows19]

Funny how they've no issue with key workers when they need their services eh? Bloody hell. Bet they clap on a Thursday too[confused

[Gregoria67]

This is horrible. All along I have felt that keyworkers were being thrown to the wolves and this separation of their children - as though they are lepers - is repulsive.

[SuperMumTum]

Indeed. Stand out side and bang pots on a thursday but then demand your precious DC are not near that nurse's DC next Monday. Fucking shameful.

[FTMF30]

That is awful. I can't believe this is a thing. If they're really that worried, they shouldn't send them in.

[Aridane]

Most of these kids have already had it

Oh my - the infodemic of misinformation starts in the opening post

[bananaskinsnomnom]

Our school is putting “key worker kids” back into their year groups if they are in the returning year groups. Parents have been told and are happy with that. It’s not fair if they can see their classmates back together and they are separated. It’s hard enough as it is. Plus we are teaching normal lessons and minimising what goes online, so therefore it wouldn’t be fair and they wouldn’t have a full online learning platform to use.

Where classes have had to be split, a lot of thought has gone into friendship groups. Initially there was discussion about splitting them ability wise to plough through work a bit faster, filling in the gaps as needed. Then it was decided that the children will thrive better with their friends who they’ve missed, so they’ve been sorted based on friendships and how well they work together essentially (and a little bit of “oh god they don’t get on at all” and one case of “oh god they need to be split up they wind each other up to the extreme”)

[TeacupDrama]

the vast majority of key workers haven't had covid never mind their kids some may have had it too mildly to be tested

3.2 million tests 254,000 tested positive thats less than 8%

so 92% of people who have severe enough symptoms to be tested or are keyworkers still do not have it

[WomanIsTaken]

Key workers' children and vulnerable pupils in years R, 1 and 6 will join the bubbles of their year groups once they start back. Only key workers' children and vulnerable pupils in years 2, 3, 4 and 5 should remain in a bubble of their own; not because they need to be segregated, but because their year groups have not yet been called back.
What will happen when those year groups are asked to return is another matter, at my school, every last teacher has been called in to teach bubbles of the returners. There'll be nobody left, and no class rooms left to teach the remaining classes for a month at the end of term as has been suggested.

[WomanIsTaken]

X-posted with Banana.
I am so disappointed that this is apparently a 'thing', as suggested here.
What do those parents think teachers have been up to? Teaching the children of fellow key workers every day, that's what.

[TitianaTitsling]

Well those who don't want their dc to be with a keyworkers child, well you obviously don't want your child to be taught by a keyworkers, or you or your child to be treated by an NHS keyworker, or given any form of service from a keyworker?

[PonderLand]

@WomanIsTaken that is how it should be however my son (3) is going to be with other keyworker kids even though he doesn't need wrap around care and he hasn't gone in to nursery since lockdown. Very confused why school think this is okay. How long will he be segregated with the other kids for?

[Tulipstulips]

I’m not bothered about keyworkers’ children but there’s a girl in DS’s year whose mum thinks “it’s all a big fake” and has therefore been acting “like normal” - I’d rather DS wasn’t in with her, because her bubble will be enormous. She’s from one of the town families where all the aunties, cousins and grandparents etc live locally, and apparently they’re all round each other’s houses all the time. On the other hand, there have been very few cases locally, so....

[Tulipstulips]

And I’m not going off rumour there - it’s what the mum has said herself in the year group WhatsApp.

[lilgreen]

Key worker children are in a separate group to yr R, yr 1 & 6.

[Abelard40]

@CheesecakeAddict I know all schools will plan differently but the school I teach in is doing a different faculty teaching each week, to avoid the one teacher trying to teach different subjects problem, and offering more targeted exam support. Keyworker kids excluded from this.

[WomanIsTaken]

lilgreen ; are you speaking of a school you are connected with, or your perception of what is happening nationally?
Key workers' children and children from vulnerable families who have been attending school since initial closure and are in R, Y1 or Y6 should be blending back in with their regular year groups. They should not remain segregated.

[lilgreen]

Talking about my school.Key worker children in 2,3,4,5 are in one group.

[lazylockdowner]

Our school is only opening for 2 days for returning children meaning the key workers kids in years R,1 and 6 will be going between there class group and the keyworkers group on the days that there class group isn't in.

The parents at school aren't happy as you have 15 key worker kids in the group on Monday but on Tuesday 6 of them will join there class then in the Wednesday they will return to key worker and another 5-7 of them will join there class groups only to return to the key worker group again on the Thursday.

[HeyChief]

Our class lists have been announced and my daughter has been separated from her 4 closest friends. She is going to be devastated and I’m worried about how she will cope. I have no objection whatsoever about her mixing with key worker children but I do have objections to her having no friends in her bubble.

[pfrench]

Why is anyone concerned about key worker children? Children dont transmit this thing apparently, that's why it's safe for schools to open.

[pfrench]

And I'd be much more concerned about being next to a vulnerable child. For eg, one of our vulnerable children has a prostitute mother. Pretty sure she's not practicing social distancing or wearing PPE.