Schools should close to save our economy, jobs and for our kids future as they will have to pay back all the debt in the future out of their taxes

[947EliseChalotte]

Aibu to think schools should not open in September as we don't know the long term/ future health problems from covid kids may suffer in the long term. pubs should stay open to save jobs, economy, and people's houses the kids in the future would only have to pay back in the future for generations taxes if we close pubs and get the country in more debt. Education kids can be homeschooled. For our kids futures ( health reasons and their future economy/ countried debts they will be left to sort out / pay back .schools should stay shut in sept and keep pubs open.

No

Yay... it will be so cool when we have thousands fewer doctors electricians, social workers and nurses in future because schools were closed for so long. Can't Wait. #sarcasm

How do you propose all the parents who work homeschool their children? And the effect of all of those people having to leave the workforce?

Keeping schools closed will mean I lose my house as I won't be able to work so not sure how it will help the economy.

Didn’t you start a thread yesterday saying Covid was just like flu and it was time to get back to normal? You didn’t bother coming back to the thread, either.

I don't understand one word of that gobbledegook. Are you actually IN a pub by any chance?

This is a joke, right? Can't be serious to say something like this on parental forum.

How the heck are they going to pay taxes when they’ve not been educated?

I can teach my kids STEM until the cows come home, I’ll also have to teach them shoplifting (to eat), re-wiring (to re-route someone else’s power to our house) and CAD (for printing bank notes).

The kids in the future already have that big student loan bubble to pay off when all those loans that arent paid off by people who never earned enough end and get paid of by the tax payer. That must start in 20 years or so.
They also have the implications of climate change to face.
And the robots are coming.
Maybe we should just let them party while they can.

So those kids are really going to need some qualifications to pay all that back. aren't they. GCSEs and A'levels, for example.
If they can't get proper qualifications this year or next, then it will be too late for the current years 11-13. They will make a reduced contribution economically for the rest of their lives. So they need their education.
Bear in mind state school pupils will be competing against private school pupils who will continue to have a full-time education remotely and pupils from abroad whose countries won't have messed up as badly as ours in this pandemic.
Pupils who need the top qualifications to be the top earners really really need their education and qualifications to be able to pay the highest taxes in the future that you mention.

Yeah whatevz
I've given up
Let me know when the mass hysteria lifts

No. I need my kids back in school for their mental health

They are bored beyond hope, desperately miss their friends and teachers and just want to go to school

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way.

So what do households with two working parents do?
We've struggled to do any homeschooling while trying to do our jobs.

What about those who live in abusive households- home isn't always a safe place.

What about the social aspects?

You do realise that it's women that will suffer? They will be the ones that have to give up their jobs .

Absolutely ridiculous idea.

Great plan...not! Me and my children will love being homeless when I have to give up my career to keep them at home.

Yes I did ask if we should treat covid like flu and just learn to live alongside it. But now the goverment are now thinking it's either pubs or schools to re open. I'm all for keeping the economy going, more jobs and less taxes for our kids and more jobs for them. I'm getting fed up of no freedom & normality. in the past people have fought and life's have been lost for our freedom. Do we open everything back up and live with consequences for our freedom? Or do we keep having lockdowns ,closing schools and bussiness' ? Having no normality or freedom till we have a vaccine which ..we might not?

Please bear in mind OP has form for starting very controversial threads and then not returning......

You've not responded to any of the questions.....

What should working parents do if schools don't open?

@Chaotic45

Please bear in mind OP has form for starting very controversial threads and then not returning......

I suspected this but I couldn't help biting. I feel very passionately about schools needing to open!

There's currently about 9 million children in primary schools across the U.K., if you assume an average of 2 kids per family that 4.5million families that would need to homeschool.

If you assume half of those have parents who work outside the home, what do those 2.25 million families do about work?

Who pays the mortgage and buys the food?

keep pubs open.

That’s what you’re really worried about, right?

The kids can go to the pubs.

@wagtailred

The kids can go to the pubs.

Maybe we can run some sort of school from the pub?

If it's a choice between pubs and schools then pubs should be closed. We need education, we do not need alcohol