How will you cope logistically / financially / mentally if schools are still PT in September?

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Just wanted to ask, really... Get an insight into how many families this will totally fuck things up for.

For us, if school is PT whatever we do we will be under massive financial / mental / logistical pressure.

We both work FT, and neither of us can WFH. I have so far been furloughed but am starting a new role where I won't be able to do that (NHS).

I guess there's a possibility key worker provision will still exist but I'm not certain.

If it doesnt, and we get say 10hrs a week (based on Scotland's plans!) Then really our only options are... One of us taking unpaid leave (which we cannot afford), finding a childminder for the 3 days a week ds isn't at school and having to leave work early for the other 2 days (no childminders pick up from his school) which will cost us more than a full time nursery place does now. Or keep him in ft nursery until school goes ft (which we could only afford to do if he keeps his funded hours half of which we haven't been able to use)

How will you cope? Will it affect you? Do you have any better ideas than my crap and expensive ones

If school goes part time, I am going to offer to babysit some of my daughters Y5 friends, and they can work at my house together while their parents work, as I’m currently a SAHM. I reckon I could cope with DS + 2 others in my ‘home school’.

One of them is likely to be in my DD’s bubble at school.

I’m not going to charge but I will ask them to bring their own packed lunch, school exercise books, an iPad if possible, and pencil case.

I hope they say yes, it will be great fun.

@HathorX

If school goes part time, I am going to offer to babysit some of my daughters Y5 friends, and they can work at my house together while their parents work, as I’m currently a SAHM. I reckon I could cope with DS + 2 others in my ‘home school’.

One of them is likely to be in my DD’s bubble at school.

I’m not going to charge but I will ask them to bring their own packed lunch, school exercise books, an iPad if possible, and pencil case.

I hope they say yes, it will be great fun.

That is so lovely of you. What a bloody good thing to do

HathorX, I don't know if you're near Scotland but I'm sending you my kids. Tomorrow.

We will cope. I’m a SAHM at the moment but starting a postgrad in September. The postgrad teaching has moved online for the first term because of Covid 19 so now I don’t have to go in. I was studying part time anyway, so I’ll just have to cram my study in around the kids. And hope I can do the occasional live tutorial rather than constantly watching on catch up.

One of mine will definitely be back at least part time for half the week each week, that aids planning a lot. We are in a better position than many but it still won’t be great. And I am really worried about my child who is not currently in school at all.

I can’t begin to think how I will cope if schools don’t go back properly in September, and I’m one of the people who has it quite good. Both myself and DH are wfh but I’m shouldering it all. I’m trying to wfh plus home school and keep the house running. It’s making me short tempered and shouty with my kids as it is.
I know an easy solution would be to get my DH to do more but he just won’t. He will say that he will but it just won’t get done. He took over some of the home schooling the other day but after 2 hours he still hadn’t even started.

We'll be fine, financially and otherwise. However, DD 17, year 12 going into year 13 is completely at the end of her tether now..... I just can't imagine what it will be like in September if we can't be back to normal.

Drop 2m social distancing to 1m, get everyone in face masks, and get everyone who is able, back in the classroom.

We're both full time secondary school teachers. I'm assuming that even if the students we teach are in part time, we'll be in full time, as expecting smaller class sizes, so still as many teachers needed. Hoping that will mean DS (7) can be in school full time under key worker (if that continues?) If he can't I have no idea at all. It is too late for me to ask to go part time at work for Sept (and even if I did might not get same days off as DS). We both earn a really similar amount so losing one income would lose half the household income which would be very difficult. Only one set of grandparents nearby but both over 70. Even if DS can go to school full time there is currently no wraparound care so I would have to look into other options for that. It's a real headache and causing me some stress.

Further to my first question.... Could you cope for a full academic year? Another poster has started a thread saying this could be the case for Scotland.

Again, if schools have 10+ hours contact time a week, I should just about keep my head above water. As things are I just want to die

@MinesAPintOfTea

Again, if schools have 10+ hours contact time a week, I should just about keep my head above water. As things are I just want to die

I'm so sorry to hear that. You're not alone in feeling that way. It's so so wrong

@Baaaahhhhh the evidence for dropping for the 2m rule is very dodgy.

[quote IfOnlyOurEyesSawSouls]@Baaaahhhhh the evidence for dropping for the 2m rule is very dodgy.[/quote]
In what respect is It "dodgy"?

Don't the WHO recommend 1m?

In what respect is It "dodgy"? Don't the WHO recommend 1m?

www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/14/scientists-report-flaws-in-who-study-on-two-metre-distancing

We can go down to one wage and still manage, so we’ll have to do that temporarily. Fortunately I’m in a position where I can easily get work.

[quote echt]In what respect is It "dodgy"? Don't the WHO recommend 1m?

www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/14/scientists-report-flaws-in-who-study-on-two-metre-distancing[/quote]
So some scientists say it's fine. Some say it's not. Well who do we trust? Why do you automatically trust the "some" who say it's flawed?

All scientists will probably never agree on a single issue will they?

So some scientists say it's fine. Some say it's not. Well who do we trust? Why do you automatically trust the "some" who say it's flawed?

Cool your jets, TrustTheGeneGenie. I was just providing link to info you asked about that another poster didn't supply to support their assertion.

Do not assume I automatically or even at all trust it.

FFS.

I only asked a question.

Another 2X FT working parents here (I am a HCP) DC yr 11 and 8 I can't contemplate another year like this. I have today contacted a local private school to ask about my rising year 9 who is likely to be bottom of the pile next year.

Just to add another dimension. I'm a teacher in a secondary so my children can access key worker places....however my school has not be doing breakfast or after school clubs during Covid so I wouldn't be able to get to school. I can't be the only teacher in that situation. I'm not the only teacher at my school with that problem

I have just changed jobs to work evenings and nights. And dh can wfh two days. I figured I would switch jobs before the unemployment rate sky rockets and it is harder to find employment.

My husband's a key worker not working from home, f/t with knobs on, and quite highly paid.

Whatever my plans were for the next year, they are toast. It's irrelevant. I have been at home solidly since March and have no scope for the work I used to do from home. When they go back (in August here) I will drink in those days where they have school and try desperately to claw something back.

I'm in an ok position from a family point of view, as in, I can provide my presence since I am meant to be wfh anyway; but on a personal level it's a half life with fuck all getting moved forward. I feel totally despondent about another 14 months of this.

We will make it work. I can deliver much if my work remotely. Dps contract comes to an end in the summer and so between us it will be fine.

No epidemiologist believes that.