School - how worried are you 1-10?

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I'm finding it impossible to settle on how worried I am about school, about whether my children will pick up covid there and how worried I am if that happens.

If you were to put your worry on a scale 1-10, with 1 being 'no more worried than a normal year' and 10 being 'terrified', where are you?

I think I'm going for an average of 6 right now.

I am not an anxious person usually but I'm more like an 8 about them going back. It seems like madness to send them back if it's just the same as before.

I'm worried about DD getting it as she has asthma, Also worried about them bringing it home as who knows if you have an underlying health condition? I'm fat, DH has high blood pressure, DH plus DCs are BAME.

Last time they went back we didn't know anyone locally who had it. Now we know lots of people who've had it so I can't see how we can possibly avoid it.

I think all school staff should be vaccinated because we're expecting them to risk their lives to have our children in school, never mind about how many will be off sick and self isolating so kids won't be able to go and will be disrupted anyway.

At the very least we need fewer children in school, staff vaccinated, social distancing and anything else that might help. Sending them all back will be a shit show.

1 - not worried at all

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0 they’ve been in on and off for a year now and they’ve all been absolutely fine. People keep hanging on for just after Easter, just another few weeks blah blah. It will still be around then, your children could still catch it and could still pass it on but they will be absolutely fine and grandparents etc will have been vaccinated. No time will ever be enough for the anxious so you just have to suck it up and crack on. The schools didn’t cause this last surge. It’s all around us and will continue to be forever more. Get them back and let us all get on with our lives.

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@CornedBeef451

I am not an anxious person usually but I'm more like an 8 about them going back. It seems like madness to send them back if it's just the same as before.

I'm worried about DD getting it as she has asthma, Also worried about them bringing it home as who knows if you have an underlying health condition? I'm fat, DH has high blood pressure, DH plus DCs are BAME.

Last time they went back we didn't know anyone locally who had it. Now we know lots of people who've had it so I can't see how we can possibly avoid it.

I think all school staff should be vaccinated because we're expecting them to risk their lives to have our children in school, never mind about how many will be off sick and self isolating so kids won't be able to go and will be disrupted anyway.

At the very least we need fewer children in school, staff vaccinated, social distancing and anything else that might help. Sending them all back will be a shit show.

With all due respect you have absolutely no idea if anyone you know had it last time. Many many people are asymptomatic and no area was covid free so there will have been diagnosed cases where you were too.

2 for children and our particular family
7 for school staff
9 for further isolations /disruption
10 for carrying on wfh and trying to teach primary school DC - am failing on both counts

This is an old thread! We didn't even have vaccines available last September!!!

But now I would say 1.

Just realised this is an old thread, but a definite 1 for me - back in September and now.

0 but as that isn’t an option, I’ll begrudgingly go with 1

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9/10 - my daughter being ill
9/10 - she bringing it home and passing it to us

I’m beginning to feel like I wouldn’t survive this year- so in some sense (in all sense) I’m expecting the worst.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/19/whitty-at-odds-with-johnson-over-big-bang-reopening-of-schools-in-england?CMP=ShareiOSAppOther

I am worried they are going to get it all wrong 🤦‍♀️

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@PotsofPaint

[[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/19/whitty-at-odds-with-johnson-over-big-bang-reopening-of-schools-in-england?CMP=ShareiOSAppOther]]

I am worried they are going to get it all wrong 🤦‍♀️

The Whitty part is unsubstantiated and the rest us from schools / unions etc themselves

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1 the risk of continued disruption far greater

This thread originally started in sept and went through to second lockdown. So a lot of those who posted originally were posting on much lower cases in the community.

For me it's 5. Ds is CV and not yet vaccinated and I also think the risk of cases spreading in schools is high. Not as general rule but having worked in 1 non stop all the way through we've had 1 staff case in November (kid sent in with temp but never tested so we can't know) and 9 in February where whole class tested positive within space of 3 days.

If it gets in then it gets around and I feel for the pupils and staff with the disruption and anxiety that causes and the businesses who remain shut or have to shut as a result of community transmission being high.

So 5 represents my 50:50 feather than anxiety levels about the illness itself. (For a start I've had it and I am vaccinated now and 3 weeks past first)

Not worried for the kids catching it, but very worried about them bringing it home and infecting others.

Will be less worried once we've been vaccinated (in group 9).

New variant went like wildfire through my Dd1's secondary school.

Very worried about disruption to school and if we have outbreaks, then needing to isolate.

@Timeturnerplease

Those worried about disruption to education due to repeated isolations/closures if it all goes tits up in hospitals again....would you support improved safety measures in schools? For example mandatory mask wearing (unless exempt), government funding for cleaning/adaptions to buildings to allow for some ventilation?

Not a dig at anyone (aside from the systemic underfunding of the education system), just a question.

Yes of course

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