Anyone not sending there kids back to school

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Majority of posts i have seen are kids have to go back to school now Ect
But
Is there anyone keeping there kids off school for longer and what are your reasons its not a judgemental thread
I think every parent has the same worries risk to them/grandparents/teachers numbers going up
A friend has told me there keeping theres off until Christmas and if they need to deregistering and said there kids have thrived being at home they are both working from home also and have 3 kids
Is anyone planning on keeping them off for a few weeks to see how it goes
Or are most people against these ideas
I have a 4 year old starting reception going in to a large school with 800 pupils in london a few people have said to me to defer him he is a summer born so is not 5 until the end of next july i am in two minds of what to do is anyone in a similar situation what have they decided

[quote Shitfuckoh]@Alex50 ours is £60 per parent if paid within 21 days. Goes up to £120 per parent if not.
No idea how many days absence that is for though.

1 of our headteachers said ''We won’t be dishing out FPNs but obviously we want as many children in school as possible'' she said a lot of heads nationally have said the same.[/quote]
This is what I'm hearing locally, but of course academies are often pretty evil!

So it doesn’t sound that easy to keep your child off school without de registering and officially home schooling without a valid medical reason. This will be another nightmare for schools as i’m sure they won’t want to fine genuine worried parents. They also won’t be able to provide an online learning system for many of those who keep children off without a medical, consultant letter. This service will be sparse for the few and not for the many.

@latticechaos
I've no experience with Academies thankfully!

I don't think many are expecting any work to be set by the school.
Some schools may do this but it won't be expected by many parents.
Things change quite quickly though so what they're doing now & what they'll be offering come half term is anyones guess.

Except that the DfE have put in their (very late in the day) guidance that they EXPECT schools to provide work to children who are having to isolate, so schools will have to have something in place.

I feel so sorry for schools: it's a shit-show.

Shielding yes but don’t forget shielding has officially ended

And shielding is different to just having anxiety and keeping your child off

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch yes that’s true. My ideal scenario for my daughter would be 3 days a week, she actually works better from home but needs face to face guidance from teachers when she struggles with a certain subject which you can’t get from online.

@Vinoonasunnyday

Shielding yes but don’t forget shielding has officially ended

And shielding is different to just having anxiety and keeping your child off

There are some people that still have to shield on the advise of their medical team despite what Bojo says.

And I think people are fully aware shielding and anxiety are different.

@latticechaos

I'm aware that dyslexia doesn't disqualify you from being a teacher. As I said, I have dyslexia myself. And I teach in a university.

But I don't write posts like the OP's (actually, the kinds of errors in the post aren't particularly the kind that dyslexics make, anyway). Dyslexia doesn't disqualify you from being a teacher, but that's because it doesn't disqualify you from writing conventional written English, especially with tools like spell checks to hand...

@Shitfuckoh so if you don’t expect the school to set work, what work would your children be doing?

It's not a mystery @Alex50. There are so many resources online. Some free some subscription.

I have spent quite sometime researching resources and have found the ones we will be using as well as hard copy resources.

[quote hopsalong]@latticechaos

I'm aware that dyslexia doesn't disqualify you from being a teacher. As I said, I have dyslexia myself. And I teach in a university.

But I don't write posts like the OP's (actually, the kinds of errors in the post aren't particularly the kind that dyslexics make, anyway). Dyslexia doesn't disqualify you from being a teacher, but that's because it doesn't disqualify you from writing conventional written English, especially with tools like spell checks to hand...

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Would be possible, like lots of people, the op bothers more with spelling when it matters.

I CBA to spellcheck on here always tbh, nor check back for grammar. Sometimes my phone puts there in place of their.

I teach spelling etc just fine.

@Oldbagface Ok are these free or do you have to pay for them? What about GCSE level? Do you need to have a part time tutor to make sure your children are at the right level to pass exams?

@Vinoonasunnyday

Shielding yes but don’t forget shielding has officially ended

And shielding is different to just having anxiety and keeping your child off

Oh yes, 'anxiety'. That's a slur, as if anyone who views things differently must have a mental health problem.

This isn't like vaccines/anti-vax debates, there isn't a huge body of evidence yet.

We'll all know more by spring.

No @Alex50. Some are free some are paid subscriptions.

GCSEs can be taken at a local exam centre where there is no practical element e.g. Maths. Where there IS a practical element they can do IGCSE's or international GCSEs. The syllabus for these differs from GCSEs and removes the practical element.

They are well recognised by colleges and buissnesses and are often preferred.

It sounds quite expensive the online GCSE corses i’ve just looked at, plus you would need a tutor to make sure your child can pass the exams, you have to pay over £100 for each exam, factor in fines, it’s starting to look very expensive, it’s probably cheaper for primary school age.

@Oldbagface if you don’t mind me asking how old are your children? Have you home schooled before? You sound quite knowledgeable, just wondering if you learnt this through lockdown or before this?

I am vulnerable and have been told to keep on shielding.

My oldest is going back to Uni, my next two are going back to boarding school (and we wont see them until Thanksgiving - yes we live in the US).
My 12 yr old was enrolled in the local school but having seen families not social distancing all summer, we have decided to keep her at home and I am going to home school her. She actually has an online curriculum so I am not actually teaching her myself, just helping her manage her time and being available for questions. I am also teaching her cooking and we are using outschool.com for art lessons. She is having a skype music lesson once a week and DH is doing science experiments with her. My biggest worry is socialising with her own age group, but she will still have SD playdates while the weather is warm enough to be outside and when it gets very cold I have some ideas for zoom time with friends and I will supply a project for them to do simultanously.
I was quite overwhelmed by the idea when we first started thinking about it, but it has come together quite well. She had her first school week this past week and she loved it.

Its a double edged sword for teachers, on the positive the less pupils in school the less transmission etc but on the negative its doubling their already heavy workload as they have to provide both classroom and home provision regardless of whether you offer to do it yourself or don't expect it.
By all means keep your children at home if they or someone in the house is medically vulnerable, this is exactly when home provisions should be used. But don't keep them home (without de registering)without any medical reasons to them or their family and think you are doing the teacher a favour in terms of workload because you're not.

@Uhoh2020

For me I am doing what I need to do in my situation to keep my family safe based on what we currently know. If I am doing the teacher a favour or not has not factored into any of my decisions. My decisions are based completely on keeping my family safe.

@Alex50 I looked for this information recently in case I should have to deregister. DC is about to begin yr9.

[quote Alex50]@Shitfuckoh so if you don’t expect the school to set work, what work would your children be doing?[/quote]
I've said it lots of times on this thread now.
I am sending my school aged children to school. So whilst they're at school that is up to their teaches to set.

If I feel that the stop & starts due to illness/isolation etc are too much, then I will pull them out. If cases rise too much, I will pull them out.
But as it stands, as I've already said I'll be sending them.

I'd have preferred part time - it wasn't to be.
My children are primary school aged, if I was to pull them out there's lots of things similar to the last 5 months that I can and will do with them.

I get the feeling you're asking questions but not because you want the know the answers but because you wish to try to pull people in to an argument / argue against what others are saying.

If you're sending your child, fine, good for you - they'll enjoy being back in the school environment learning & having fun with their friends.
If you're not sending your child, fine, good for you - they'll enjoy learning at home & having lots of fun with you.

It's not a competition nor is it an argument. This is a horrible place for all parents to be in - if you don't understand someone's position, sometimes it helps to ask - sometimes they don't want to tell you (which is their right!) but that does not mean you can judge without knowing - said not to you directly @Alex50 but all the fools judgemental people who seem to find themselves on these school threads lacking empathy for others. It's so easy to label people.

'I get the feeling you're asking questions but not because you want the know the answers but because you wish to try to pull people in to an argument / argue against what others are saying. '

I also get that impression.

My kids do it too.

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch

'I get the feeling you're asking questions but not because you want the know the answers but because you wish to try to pull people in to an argument / argue against what others are saying. '

I also get that impression.

My kids do it too.

Mine do too but they're all under 10