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!

[Msmcc1212]

FFS. People are wanting to keep key workers children separate?!!! I’ve read about the stigma that healthcare workers might experience but naively thought it wasn’t happening here.

[PimaDona]

My DD is leaving her key worker bubble and going back into her year group. DS year group not back so he’s staying in key worker bubble.

Schools is offering full time whilst uptake is low. If it increases they will have to do a rota system but KW kids get priority

[PimaDona]

Tbh I’d rather she stayed in key worker bubble. They’re all really good at social distancing now. I don’t really want her in a class with kids who’ve been cooped up for months and shielded from everything

[whattodo2019]

Our school under the government guidelines have said -
Of key worker children need wrap around care they will remain in the key workers children bubble and will not be able to mix with their year group.

Some key worker parents. (Who need wrap around care) are furious....

[MyHipsDontLieUnfortunately]

This is pure discrimination. Keyworker kids have been put at greater risk throughout and now they're potentially punished for it because non keyworkers want their childcare cake which they'll probably be able to eat while working from home.

[toolatetooearly]

At our school keyworker reception and Y1 kids had the option of staying in their own 5-day-a-week bubble, or returning to their class for just 2 days a week. We doing the former - my Y1 DD is gutted she won't be with her friends back in her class, but we don't want her suddenly dropping back down to 2 days a week from the 4 or 5 days she's done since lockdown started.

[ElsasSalamander]

At our school wrap around care is only available for key worker kids. So you can choose whether they go back in their usual class or stay in the keyworker bubble but they cannot switch between. We have been very torn on where to put reception age DD. We need childcare but it is in her best interest to be back in her class. So we’re doing everything we can to juggle our workloads to make it possible.

[Invisimamma]

My dh works in a hospital but our kids have been at home with me (while I try to work from home), they haven't accessed the key worker childcare but just as likely to catch/carry covid from dh I suppose.

Are they saying they won't be allowed to return to their own class groups because we have a key worker at home? How does the school even know that?

[PonderLand]

@Invisimamma at my sons school they did a list of the keyworkers before lockdown. I put his name down incase we needed it but didn't. Now he's going back but in a keyworker bubble. I think every school is doing it differently, they've called my sons place for June 1st a 'keyworker place' despite the fact I'm not sending him in so that I can go to work or get different school hours. I thought he'd be be in with the rest of his class divided up by friendship/ability not by what job I do. I can understand why schools want to keep the existing keyworker bubbles but some schools are finding ways of putting them back into the new bubbles. Will they be kept separate until there is a vaccine? If there's a peak and schools change to normal classes will they try and segregate them again?