"Parents should control their teenagers"

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Says Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer.
I'm so pissed off about this, children and young people are already sacrificing so much to protect the old!

What was the context?

Counteracting the effect of schools opening

She can sod off. My teen has stuck to the guidelines throughout.

She made a valid point, parents should be ensuring their children are behaving responsibly during this epidemic.

Her point was that there was probably more chance of the virus being passed on by teenagers meeting outside school unsupervised than in the school environment that is more controlled.

So @ssd you're going to let them do whatever they want now? Why would you want them to stop if they have been following the guidelines so far?

Ridiculous and insulting, frankly. My 15yo is both sensible and responsible, and doesn't need controlling. If she did, I have no idea how I would go about doing that.

If this is the government's best strategy for stopping the spread of covid through schools...god help us all.

This is a classic example of someone taking a phrase off something without watching the full thing and making a drama from it. I suggest you watch the entire thing before getting your knickers in a twist 🤨

This is a classic example of someone taking a phrase off something without watching the full thing and making a drama from it. I suggest you watch the entire thing before getting your knickers in a twist 🤨

"To protect the old" - erm, no. To protect the NHS from getting overwhelmed ...

I did watch the whole thing and thought the remark was the wrong tone.

Ha, when they sort out CAMH's and actually help parents with teenagers who are struggling rhen perhaps.
In the mean time they can fuck right off.

As it is, Dd has been responsible, but she's 18 now, trying to control her at 14 just wasn't happening as much as I tried.

What do you class as old? As a family member of mine died 2 weeks after contracting the virus. She wasn't old at all. So your teenager has more rights to muck about in the street with their friends than she does to live because she's just slightly more than middle aged? Wind your neck in.

I really don't feel that she meant anything by it other than teens need to be careful how they behave and socialise outside school if we want schools to be as safe as they can be.

Of course many teens are fine but we have had a video shared locally of 62 teens being removed from a house... It would be funny if it wasn't so worrying, they just kept coming! So yes parents need to know where they are.

I think they’ve been pretty amazing considering they’ll have had 6 months or so if their education and freedoms totally fucked and will have to pay for this shit show. And considering his virus is of little or no harm to them.

Little or no harm but they could pass it on to their parents or grandparents etc.. Large gangs indoors not fair. People's livelihoods are hanging on things getting back to dome normal and avoiding a second wave.

She had a perfectly valid point in the context of the question she was answering.

To be fair she has a point to an extent. Parents cant moan about no SD on schools but then allow their DC to be out congregating in large groups , having parties and sleepovers like teenagers do at the evenings and weekends

Where I live there is a lot of groups of teenagers walking round and have vandalised monuments/buildings so I have to agree with her unfortunately.

She has a point I’m afraid. Your opening post says it all. Children are not being scarified to protect the old. Disgraceful comment.

Agreed OP. Teens do need to be careful. It's mostly the pensioners round here though that have stubbornly been defying lockdown. Family members included.

I do think teens should be avoiding parties and sleepovers (and shagging). I can't see what the problem is with them meeting up with friends in parks though, which is in accordance with the rules.

However, I do agree with the viewpoint that they've been told to sacrifice their education and other things to help protect people who statistically were more likely to have voted for Brexit and already messed up their future prospects once. I'd be annoyed and refuse to cooperate after a while as well.

Her point was that there was probably more chance of the virus being passed on by teenagers meeting outside school unsupervised than in the school environment that is more controlled well they should have opened the schools and sixth form colleges then shouldn't they !!!!

tbh, what peeved me that JH said today was about schools being "innovative" with social distancing. Schools are actually terrifically creative. But don't ask them to be "creative" with public health measures. That was a pants expectation.

She clearly imagines that teenagers will be (1) able and (2) willing to keep away from each other at school. Also that they will be well-behaved and compliant in the “controlled” environment of school.

Bless.

She definitely has a point, I went to our local shopping centre the other day and there was a group of about 8 crowded together in the H&M queue, DH also saw a group of teens down by the local lake not distancing.