School - how worried are you 1-10?

[ChanceChanceChance]

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.

[DownstairsMixUp]

1. Teachers are fantastic, they are safe and I appreciate that. Only thing I'm anxious about is people getting hysterical again and causing kids to lose more time off school

[BrunoMars]

1

[loutypips]

If we didn't have a family member shielding - 3

Because we have an extremely clinically vulnerable person at home -99!

Dd,s school are allowing bubbles to mix, and therefore not following government guidance. I have no faith in them. We are currently educating from home. No idea how long they will let us do this though.

[AmelieTaylor]

And just got a notification through DC (Y10) needs to isolate as close contact in bubble is unwell, with a temp & getting a test.

🙈

[MrsPatterson2014]

1

[bubblebubblebubbletrouble]

Actual risk of them getting Covid at school - about 3 (would have been 1 but rates in our area rising quickly)
Concerns about constantly being in and out of school - about 300. Dd2 who wasn't enamoured by school in YrR did brilliantly when she went back in June & made a little friend and has been much happier this year so far even after school club is tolerable,

[MJMG2015]

@loutypips

If we didn't have a family member shielding - 3

Because we have an extremely clinically vulnerable person at home -99!

Dd,s school are allowing bubbles to mix, and therefore not following government guidance. I have no faith in them. We are currently educating from home. No idea how long they will let us do this though.

I'm sorry you have an extremely clinically vulnerable person.

I'd educate from home too!

Given numbers are rising, I doubt they'd be able to make any fines stick where you have a clinically vulnerable person in the home.

Take care 🌷

[OhamIreally]

@Todaythiscouldbe

1 for Covid
9 for fear of more disruption to education

This

[loutypips]

Thanks MJM! You too

Pretty sure we had it January/February time. Now they've found a man in the UK who had it in December it looks more likely.

[runninguphills]

I'm not concerned at all. I have 3 children in 3 different schools so theoretically our home could come into contact with huge numbers of other households where their children are attending one of my children's schools.

I feeling mellow about it. The children are relaxed and chilled too.

[BigBadVoodooHat]

3-ish for Covid
10 for disruption to education & for mine and DH’s work as/when their bubble gets sent home to isolate or there are wider school closures.

[WalesAppearsToBeSlightlySaner]

1

[Worriedmum999]

3 for their health
8 for mine as I’m vulnerable
0 for their education as I love homeschooling and have the time. They are also ahead anyway.
9 for the affect of being isolated again on their mental health.

I go between wanting to take them out of school now to just wanting to get the virus to get it over with and for all the worry to have gone, whether i live or die. I can’t live with this worry anymore

[Triangularbubble]

Getting Covid - 0. Chickenpox was more concerning.

Disruption to school - 10. Not disruption from actual Covid, that’s fair enough, but disruption due to every cold and bug and lack of testing is far more concerning to me. Plus how uneven and unequal that disruption could be.

[boon]

7 here

[neveradullmoment99]

5 - I dont want my children to catch it and i dont want it brought home.
10 - I am a teacher and I dont feel safe at work and feel I am destined to catch it. I don't want to be ill with it and my dh is overweight and worry about him. He is also 55. I am early 50's.
10 - My mum is 86 and really worried for her.

[neveradullmoment99]

2 - for the disruption at school. We would manage.

[ohthegoats]

Around a 2 for child health
Around a 7 - 8 for staff health

Around a 9 - 10 for disruption and logistics shit
Around a 10 for my mental health as a result of disruption and logistics shit

I'm a teacher

[ohthegoats]

Also 10 for not being able to visit my parents due to my job.

[Charles11]

I wonder if dd already had it earlier this year. It did go through her school and DD was very ill with a fever that didn’t go down for 3 days, diarrhoea and then a cough which lasted about a week. It could have been another winter bug of course though quite a few staff members and kids later tested positive.

If she did have it, then I would say 1. If she hasn’t, then I’m a 5.

[TableFlowerss]

Worried about then catching it 1
Worried about their MH if things get worse 10

[ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN]

1

[PeppersYellow]

7 because two of my dcs have asthma and at secondary school. Both pupils or teachers aren't distancing and hardly anyone wearing masks. If I knew they wouldn't fight me on it then I'd have them at home now. Really pissed off with school. Talked all the talk before return to school but haven't made sure the kids stick to the rules.

[GarlicSoup]

10 actually make that 100

[PickAChew]

I'm more worried that DS2 will get settled back into his special school then end up back at home, again. After 6 months off, he's all over the place.