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.

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1. Small village school. We had one case that was isolated and nobody else got ill. I am not worried in the slightest. The only thing I am worried about is the high price children paid for saving the old. I am also really worried about their mental health and future.

@NinetyNineRedBalloonsGoBy

Covid = 1 Disruption to education and negative impact on dc's mental health = 10

This. But I'd say Covid = 0, rather than 1.

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Let them go back!

2 because I'm heavily pregnant but I'm just so desperate for her to go back. I'd be a 1 if I wasn't vulnerable and higher if I was more vulnerable or someone in my household was. My husband is a secondary school teacher so he's been in a bit over this lockdown.

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6 or 7

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Not in the slightest bit worried

If you’d asked me in November I was at a 2, but my youngest got covid in December and it was a bloody nightmare. We aren’t 100% my other DD got it although she showed mild symtoms prob not enough to build antibodies. Both of us have tested negative for antibodies since. On top of that I now know 3 people with long covid including a fit young mum from the school who now can’t get out of bed so my views have completely changed.

And no this isn’t a ‘scaremongering’ post as I know a lot of you can’t bear to hear any negativity. Unfortunately this is just the truth.

@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 🤦‍♀️

Same.... can't help but think they'll blunder in and open all schools at once without any staggering or mitigation - what could possibly go wrong?

Oh 8 by the way (only less than 10 because of the vaccine rollout)

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But my DC are secondary age and I really don't want DH to catch Covid.
There were so many positive cases in DDs school in the first week of the Christmas holidays I think we've been very lucky. So far.

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Yes, the 'pile them all back in' policy that may be coming our way, is making me even more worried....

...is it possible to be a 15??!!

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I am not worried about Covid

I am worried about lockdown, more lockdown and the lockdown mindset, and the effects of the government’s campaign of fear mongering on the ability of people to function in normal life with normal risks.

1. They have had Covid, as have I and DH. None of us are worried about getting it again.

I worry for the staff but overall am very keen for the DCs to go back.

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I would say I’m a 2. Im not completely ‘not worried’; When they were in school last sept to December I reminded them every day to ‘wash hands and don’t put your fingers in your mouth’. So aware of it. Want them to do their best to try and not catch it! But if they do, chances are they are fine etc ... so not overly more worried than I would be with flu etc ...
I do absolutely want them back ASAP. The effects of further missed education is worse IMO than catching Covid.