If You Could Choose Any Education Option for Sept

[IDSNeighbour]

I'm getting so confused by what parents actually want to happen with schools right now (I'm not a parent, I'm a teacher). I want to know what home opinions my classes are going to be coming in from in Sept - whether they're likely to be nervous or confident, whether they will want to SD or not, etc.

I know parents aren't one hive mind but the 'loudest voice' seems to keep changing its mind. Or I hear different ones, idk.

I'm sure there used to be a board for polls and surveys but, if I wasn't imagining, I can't find it.

So, if you're up for an unscientific straw poll to help me gauge general feeling, can you post A, B, C, D or E in the thread (you can explain if you like, I don't mind!)
A - I want full time schooling as close to the old normal as is allowed
B - I want full time schooling but with safety measures such as social distancing and masks for all who can and are old enough.
C - I want blended learning (half in the classroom and half online)
D - I want to keep my child at home all the time, home school them and not be penalised (ie, I want my place back when I think it's safe)
E - I think schools should remain closed for most children for now.

A or B

D, thank you kindly, don’t want to give you more work but would gladly accept support from any of your vulnerable colleagues (who I don’t think should be back face to face - at least not in England). I would like to see B/C for people attending - whatever keeps the numbers within the realms of social distancing.

A.

B for Primary
C for Secondary

C and if cases remain minimal, move to B then A

C for me. DS is 4 and I’m an ex primary school teacher. I’m confident I can do the academics until at least end of primary and part time school would suit our lifestyle down to the ground! I was actually looking forward to it when Wales was proposing to do it like that. I wouldn’t choose D because I’m shit at the socialising aspect and need DS to be in school for a bit of the time so he can access it, plus we don’t speak Welsh at home so I need him to go for that aspect too.

A

Which has happened in Scotland. Or, an A/B mix actually. No masks but plenty of cleaning and the adults socially distancing.

B or C for secondary

A would be short-lived, no matter how much people want it to happen. C would be the most prudent, but I’d take B as the next best. D should be available to anyone who wants it.

C

For secondary, B or C.

A

Definitely A

A

C would be my choice for my secondary children.
However, will accept A, but would prefer B if can't have C.

A - 13
A/B - 2
B - 2
B/C - 6
C - 8
D - 5
E - 0

I almost feel sorry for the decision makers! But, at the moment, they do seem to be following the majority opinion.

To minimise the risk of a significant spike and further periods of increased restrictions, probably a mixture of A / B / C depending on ages. I would rather teachers had time to plan for a more sustainable model. I'm not really clear how any degree of social distancing can occur in most of our schools so if we want B them perhaps we need C?
I have children in KS4, 3 and 2. Education is most important for the KS4 child, but he could also manage very well with some element of blended learning. So could the KS3 child.
For primary children, school also has a childcare function and at this stage I think they should probably be open as much as possible

I would like A, but you know.. pandemic.

So C, part time. My gut feeling is that after B doesn't do the job, we'll be doing C anyway.

C (if it had really good social distancing) or D.

If D, I wouldn't expect it to be for more than a few weeks at a time, and I wouldn't expect teachers to send work home. (I also think all performance related pay should exclude kids with less than roughly normal attendance, or the whole thing should be suspended anyway.)

It seems mad to me that, if local infection rates start to go up somewhere, parents there have to wait until levels get bad enough for schools to be officially closed before they can keep their kids at home. If local parents could react quickly to apparently rising local infection rates, by keeping kids at home where they don't need school for childcare, that could help to get a local outbreak under control more quickly. Insisting that that can't happen seems really shortsighted.

I do understand the issue with parents who need fines to send their kids to school at all, but I'm not convinced there wouldn't be other ways round that. Some minimum engagement on the part of parents with general (not specifically sent home for that class) home learning goals, as a condition for not being fined, perhaps? I agree that the instant cries of 'de-register then' distract from any real discussion of the pros and cons of the issue.

Part time results were as of 23:19.

Will keep updating them.

I wonder if more of the As are parents of Primary School children or KS3

C and perhaps move to B on the second term if all goes well.

I am thinking of secondary. Would have voted differently if primary, so perhaps people need to specify

Secondary here too. I would be interested to know how the A's break down between primary and secondary.

A (or B) for my Yr11 DD
The school's online provision during lockdown was inadequate.

By the way, I see "not at school full time" as winnig your poll so far.

B/C, C, D and E get more votes than A or B....