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School - how worried are you 1-10?

546 replies

ChanceChanceChance · 10/09/2020 21:55

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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SmilingHappyBeaver · 10/09/2020 22:44

1

whirlwindwallaby · 10/09/2020 22:45

@Todaythiscouldbe

1 for Covid 9 for fear of more disruption to education
This
MarshaBradyo · 10/09/2020 22:46

5 - if the virus spreads

10 - for GSCE child if it disrupts education more

9 - for yr 6 disruption, mostly because he loves being back

amusedtodeath1 · 10/09/2020 22:47

5

I think my DD would be fine but Me and DP not so much and my 80 YO mum even less so.

Even so I'm trying to stay logical in assessing the risk to me and my family. If I let my emotions run the shop it'd be a 10 I'm sure, but my brain says caution is enough for now.

Longestride25 · 10/09/2020 22:49

10 my daughter is the most vulnerable child in school.

Feellikedancingyeah · 10/09/2020 22:51

9 .My son won't engage with online learning at home.

Beebityboo · 10/09/2020 22:52

I've been a 9 or 10 since they went back and I'm completely exhausted by it. I'm vulnerable and feel it's now inevitable I will catch it and possibly not make it through. There's also such a randomness to Covid that I desperately don't want the DC's to contract it either, not while so little is known about its long term effects.

keziahthecat · 10/09/2020 22:52
  1. My son is starting reception and I don't want his first experience of school to be weird and disrupted. We already know they won't have the usual performances, assemblies, hot lunches, mixing in the playground. He's also got a heart condition which is triggered by viruses. He's not considered high risk but I worry even when he gets a cold so this is an added worry.
LittleHootie · 10/09/2020 22:52

I feel like DC will get it. Theyll probably be fine. They might pass it to me. If I'm ill I'm fucked cos I have no support, dying would be shit too.

So quite serious worries, but not a 10 cos chances are even if I get it I probably wont die. I really hope not.

If DC are sent home for any length of time I will have a cry in the bathroom then get on with it. So that's a 5.

NewAutumnName · 10/09/2020 22:54

1 for worry about covid and child's health

10 for mental health and depression about no social contact, constantly worried about education, finances etc

DipSwimSwoosh · 10/09/2020 22:55

1

AlohaMolly · 10/09/2020 22:56

2 for actual health of DS, not a 1 because of the unknowns of long term Covid, but he’s only 4. The older he was the more worried I’d be I think.

7 for the poor staff and their health.

5 for DP and I. I’m 32 with a weak chest and quite fat, DP is 39.

8 for my PIL who are over 70 and are our bubble for childcare.

9 for disruption to his schooling. I don’t care about the academics due to age and the fact I’m a trained primary teacher but I desperately want him to make friends have have fun in school. He was in two days last week before getting a cough and hasn’t been back yet! I’m so sad for him.

disorganisedsecretsquirrel · 10/09/2020 22:57

10 for them passing it on to someone who will be very ill or die

3 for them personally (one had asthma £

Gladysthesphinx · 10/09/2020 22:57

0 for coronavirus (same as for accidentally drowning in the bath or choking on my tongue).
But 10 for disruption to education.

disorganisedsecretsquirrel · 10/09/2020 22:57

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MadameBlobby · 10/09/2020 22:57

@Longestride25

10 my daughter is the most vulnerable child in school.
That’s such a shame x what a worry
middleager · 10/09/2020 22:58

@yellowmoampinball

Depends on the year icecream. I have a kid in year 11. Not much time to catch up on stuff now and actually not so easy to do that level of work at home. I can remember cock all of gcse maths, science, French. It was incredibly challenging trying to support her with that kind of work, even with plenty of input from school. She's much better off being in a classroom where she can interact with teachers as she learns.
Agreed. I have two year 10s. We both work and have neither the expertise or time to support.

Time is running out for keystage 4s, having already lost time as home schooling was mediocre, no live lessons or video lessons.

disorganisedsecretsquirrel · 10/09/2020 22:58

Bloody fat fingers.. ) not £

duckme · 10/09/2020 23:01

1

catsarecute · 10/09/2020 23:04

9 for any of us getting ill with covid. I had a virus 12 years ago and still haven't fully recovered. Long covid terrifies me.

DS has been hospitalised 3 times with non blanching rash after catching viruses (last time it was flu) - they had to treat as suspected septicemia each time (it wasn't, but that doesn't mean you can ignore it if it happens again, you have to treat it seriously each time).

I would be less worried if I thought schools were safer, but I don't think the no masks, no temperature checks, no distancing strategy currently in place is anything like what you could say is 'covid secure'. And cases have tripled in our area over the past week. It seems to be spreading out of control here. There's already been a case in DS's school.

cherubtastic · 10/09/2020 23:07

0 for us...We all caught covid in April. My kids were going to school as key worker kids, I’m a nurse. We got it from their absent father who after not seeing them for 6 months, decided to cross county lines in lock down to drop them a birthday present off....when his new family was positive...

I have asthma, I got it so badly I couldn’t walk/get to the bathroom/my 11 &13 yr old had to be my carers. I have long covid...I’m still not fully fit 5 months on!

But I don’t worry about my boys. They only got a cough and temp... they can get any virus at school. It’s the vulnerable/elderly family members I worry about

Delatron · 10/09/2020 23:09

Yep 1 for COVID

9 for disruption to education

Waves12345 · 10/09/2020 23:10

5 for the stress of working out what symptom is just normal cold and what’s more serious now they are mixing with no distancing from families I don’t know! Trying to weight up their social/emotional needs...😒

arethereanyleftatall · 10/09/2020 23:11

1

EndoplasmicReticulum · 10/09/2020 23:11

1 for them getting it. About a 9 for them getting it and passing it to their grandparents. They're in year 10 and 11 or I'd be seriously considering homeschooling.