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We need to rise up about the lack of education for our children

648 replies

Speeding201700 · 07/06/2020 09:54

Please do this. Please join the Twitter movement #usforthem
Please write to your MPs
Please talk about this.

Our children are missing out on their fundamental human right of an education.

The children of regular families are suffering (all 5 of mine are suffering desperately), but those in vulnerable families are suffering even further. The gap between these children will be HUGE

I am a teacher and a mother. I am ready to go back to work full time and with the 'old normal'. I am also type 1 diabetic.

Please help us rise up to get our children educated. Our children have been totally forgotten about. Throughout my career I've had it rammed down my throat about how school is a safe place for so many children. They don't care about these children now.

I am amazed so many people have just accepted this. It has gone on for too long now.

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gapp · 09/06/2020 07:37

I've started another thread on protection for working parents who are being forced to resign to look after kids because gov has taken away access to schools

Our poor children and primarily working mums are being thrown under the bus

S1nkorSw1m · 09/06/2020 07:40

Maybe they’d listen if we marched. Might risk their precious r number which is clearly only important if it helps fpubs and hospitality to open.

I’m not going to be able to socially distance my teens any longer. We work all day, their mental health is suffering,( along with their education).

Alex50 · 09/06/2020 07:44

I’m ready go on a march for our children, we need all children back at school for September, enough is enough.

ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson · 09/06/2020 07:46

I am so angry about this. DD is year 5 and there’s now no prospect of her going back before September. Thank God we don’t live in a grammar school area, if we had the 11-plus in September that would send me over the edge.

Weepinggreenwillow · 09/06/2020 07:47

s1nk from Sept I will be actively encouraging my teens to meet up with friends as they wish if there is no school, both outside and inside. Hey, at least they will be able to go hang out at Primark or a theme park! I am not prepared to continue sacrifcing their mental health and well being for some abstract reason that science does not support.

Weepinggreenwillow · 09/06/2020 07:47

I would also march.....

ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson · 09/06/2020 07:49

I would march. I just can’t believe that the Government has simply abandoned children’s right to an education. I wouldn’t have had DD if I’d known all she was going to have in her life was me and her dad, I want more and better for her than that.

Alex50 · 09/06/2020 07:59

How do we go about organising a March?

Eebahgumlass · 09/06/2020 07:59

It is outrageous children have been totally disregarded and noone in traditional roles speaking out for them.. This disruption is intrinsically linked to social distancing measures that are disproportionate anyway - Sweden, Netherlsnds and other countries don't enforce this between children. We do need to rise up. Usforthem has several thousand signatures to its petition and has been campaigning for several weeks. Mobilising with a march is a very good idea if we could get enough attendance. Does anyone have experience organising them ?

Mascotte · 09/06/2020 08:05

@Speeding201700 I agree and am really happy I found this thread.

BeltaneBride · 09/06/2020 08:09

I wouldn't march for much but I would march for this. You can bet the police would stop that march -there would be no ' taking the knee' for middle class nice women, you can bet that!
Matt Hancock reported as saying on the Telegraph today that may not be normal school In September.
O am going to shamelessly steal the letter that an earlier poster wrote and send to my MP? but they are Lib Dem so likely to be wishy washy and not want to do anything until it is 'safe' for teachers 🙁

Alex50 · 09/06/2020 08:10

Common sense is at last starting to sink in, all this nonsense if you send your children to school you could kill them, 5 under 15’s have died in the uk from coronvirus, most of them had serious health issues. I know it’s about the spread but the least affected group are taking the brunt of it, it makes so cross for the next generation.

greenstream · 09/06/2020 08:13

I thought UK had a Children's Commissioner who is supposed to be able to scrutinize and weigh in on any legislation impacting on children?

Was the Children's Commissioner in the "war cabinet" group deciding on all the measures for covid?

MrsBlondie · 09/06/2020 08:16

I'm disgusted my secondary age child may not even be back in September. Teenagers have been totally forgotten about.

I'm so angry. Why is the media not concerned about this?

Eebahgumlass · 09/06/2020 08:17

We have written to Children Commissioner @greenstream - waiting a response.

Alex50 · 09/06/2020 08:20

@Eebahgumlass can you post the response when you receive it, it will be an interesting read

TokyoSushi · 09/06/2020 08:21

Well there we have it, the nightmare continues! September 'at the earliest' JFC, spend your time in Primark or at a beer garden kids!

Facebook is full of that infuriating care symbol and people saying 'oh well, it's just not safe' 'Let's keep them off 4eva' and other such shite.

I absolutely adore my DC and I don't mind having them around at all, so it's not a case of wanting rid of them. But they're really bright, could do really well, but I'm WFH full time which DH is out at work all day every day, I literally cannot home school them to anywhere like what they need.

I'm furious.

TokyoSushi · 09/06/2020 08:22

I think they know its a disgrace, every time it's mentioned in the media its glossed over and they quickly move on.

Pertella · 09/06/2020 08:23

I think we all need to let our MPs know how strongly people think about this!

If the person who mentioned the template letter earlier is reading, could you send it to me please?

Sorry I've read back but cant find you to ask personally Blush

ShiteheadRevisited · 09/06/2020 08:27

I would march for this, no question!

It's utterly appalling and the glossing over by the media is staggering. We are fortunate are that as a key worker child our daughter has attended school every day (bar holidays and a 2 week quarantine period) - she's got an enormous amount of being there but it breaks my heart that so many children are being denied this opportunity, and that parents are being denied the CHOICE to send their kids in.

This is a true scandal. How do we make some proper noise?

Eebahgumlass · 09/06/2020 08:30

@TokyoSushi the lack of discourse has been absolutely shocking. Huge body of evidence of the collateral damage to children- DfE acknowledges 67% of children suffered damage to wellbeing from school closure by May. Reports from BMJ, from Bristol Uni stacking up about the impact of extended loneliness on children. None of these papers have seen light of day. Wealth of evidence that children play a much lower role than adults in disease transmission. The government does not seem to have considered the damage of its intervention whatsoever or whether it is proportionate.

SeaOtterFluff · 09/06/2020 08:31

I am furious that children are expected to bear the brunt of this while the adults get to play golf and go to garden centres. DD didn't do her exams, didn't get her much anticipated leaving ceremony and is has been stick at home for 3 months. And now she won't even get a proper shot at 6th form? All because we might get a mythical "2nd wave" because that's what happened 100 years ago. Utterly ridiculous.
Where is the march? I'm in.

Itis6oclocksomewhere · 09/06/2020 08:34

I would march.

My eldest is 17 and studying events at a local college. She is lucky that a lot of her is taught well online and they already did online learning with other sites. She doesn't seem too bothered by online learning, but she's missing her friends.
My middle DD is in YR10 and it's a crucial year for her. She's doing ok with her online learning. Some subjects are better than others though. She's really struggling with maths. Before lockdown she was getting extra support with her teacher and it was having a positive effect. She's gone backwards now.
It's my youngest who I worry about most. She's always been a bit anxious about things but she was thriving after starting secondary school last September. I can see her changing everyday. Last week we visited her best friend to socially distance drop off a birthday gift. On the way there she said she felt sick and had tummy ache. This is all part of her feeling nervous and anxious.

I really worry about the future for our children.

whenwillthemadnessend · 09/06/2020 08:34

Written to my MP and the daily briefing.

Will do so every week from now on.

I implore you all to do the same.

This needs sorting.

Fenlandmum · 09/06/2020 08:36

Where is the march? I'm in

We're in too. I'm completely furious about this. My kids need to be back in school full time in September, in face masks if social distancing is possible.