If you're not sending your dc back to school until September because of the new rules

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Will you send them back in September if the new rules still apply?

I'm genuinely not being goady and if you're sick of school threads please feel free to bypass this thread.

As 1st June looms I think even those who are sending dc back are a bit apprehensive if only because of the new rules and bubbles.

If this becomes the new normal until a vaccine/treatment. Will you feel any better about it come September?

I’m sorry but if school is only part time in September then parents have to step up! You can cover the academic work of a school day in about 2 hours focused study at home. So if you work in the week you have to catch up at weekends. We do and it works absolutely fine. It won’t go on forever, there will be a vaccine or better treatment but it might be hard going for a while....that is parenting I’m afraid.

^*It's impossible to predict what the situation will be like in one month let alone 3.

Seems pointless asking what people might do in a hypothetical situation.*^

It's not pointless to me.

I agree that we don't know for certain what the situation will be come September. But it is entirely possible that it will still be under the new regime of isolated bubbles and it could, note could be that school goes part time to accommodate this.

I genuinely didn't want to get into an argument about what school will/won't be like because I agree that none of us know. But I'm only asking the question.

I understand that some people are reluctant to send their dc back under new rules and with cases too high, but I'm wondering what people will do come September if the new 'rules' still need to be in place. It's difficult to word this without sounding goady, which I'm not trying to be.

It's the difference possibly between feeling so strongly that you'd opt for long term home schooling or whether it's just a case of a few more weeks at home is fine, and hope that things look better in September.

I sincerely hope normality is resumed in September for all our sakes. If cases are low enough and test and trace is working let's hope.

The only thing I know for sure is if school goes part-time for primary I shall have to resign. It just won't be workable for us as a family

Personally I could actually cope with part time school. But it would be terrible for people who work full time.

I feel that if dc are learning at least some stuff at school I can pick up the rest at home and they'll be much more willing because Mrs X has told them to do it.

I've struggled to get my youngest to do anything academic but have come into my element with the crafts and playing.

If social distancing is still in place I'm also fearful for wrap around childcare which just couldn't work. I'm concerned that our fantastic wrap around service could go out of business and the government are withdrawing support.

Worried we could go back to the dark ages where you have to have a sahp.

If I was a SAHM, I would be really positive about part time schooling I think it would give kids a really balanced life. But as a working mum with no access to wraparound care it is an absolute nightmare

I'm not sending them because I'm not allowed to send them. They aren't invited back (yet). We have no choice about this. Very unclear when/if they will have any structured learning again.

I'm not reluctant to send DD3 (y6) to school, as such, but I don't feel it's necessary for her - she's engaging with online learning and the school have said provision will be the same at home and school. Why send her in so they have more children to deal with, when I can facilitate her learning at home? Also, she leaves the school in 7 weeks anyway.

In September, I would send her because she'll be year 7. It's worth the upheaval to settle her in a new school.

I am sending my y1. He started going a couple of weeks ago anyway as a key worker child. I am hesitant about sending my reception starter if things are not more normal. I don’t want her first experience of school being strange. I would rather keep her in her nursery if I could.

I have a current Year 1 and Year 6. The Primary school is currently only accepting key workers and Year R. Not sure whether that will change in September, but presumably they can't continue with completely online school indefinitely.

I don't see how my new year 7 can "start" school in September without actually going.

I've got a Y2 and a YR. Not sending the youngest in until they can both go, which is realistically going to be Sept. Youngest is happy at home, happy to do school work with us and was struggling socially so there's nothing in it for her to go back! Eldest on the other hand would hugely benefit and if the positions were reversed I'd have no hesitation in sending her back ASAP.

The government needs to get its act together and get a fully functional test and track system working.

It needs to get daily infection rates lower than 9,000 a day

Then schoolscan safely look at opening in a more "normal" way than how it is happening in June.

I do understand how hard it is to have schools shut but if they effort is put in now then we can get more control over the cases and life becomes more normal.

Whilst the infection rate is so high it puts huge pressure on schools and interferes with the ability to educate the children even if they are on the school premises.

When there aren’t 10 times the number of deaths per day and 3 times the number of new cases than when the schools shut, I’ll think that it’s safer to be sending them back than now

Will look at estimated number of cases in our area (using Zoe app and any other available data) and make a decision then. With current rates, if whole school went back tomorrow, odds are they'd be several pupils incubating Covid on the day of return. With a high risk person in our household, that level of risk is not acceptable to us.