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.

[Bluelinings]

1. If there was distancing in schools it’d be more 3 or 4. If others in class weren’t ignoring rules it’d be lower too.
   

Worried about education being interrupted as well as our underlying conditions.

I wish I could be a 1.

[ChanceChanceChance]

I also feel my worry would really drop if there was SD in school. It just couldn't spread in schools easily then.

[Oblomov20]

1

[ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia]

8

[monkeytennis97]

1 for pupils getting it
3 for disruption to their education if we go to remote learning
8/9 fear for DH and I getting it (both teachers).

[monkeytennis97]

@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

I concur.

[notanoctopus]

About a 7-8. I'd feel much safer with blended learning as reduces risk of bubble isolation due to class sizes, rather than the stop/start and reduces risk of catching it. I wish there was another option for school, rather than this all or nothing approach - days off will probably be the same amount - one just lets you have a half-life and one lets you have none when isolating.

I'm scared of kids getting long-term Covid, I'm scared for my DC with asthma, I'm scared that simple things like class washing hands on entry and exit to school (R) aren't even being adhered to, I'm scared that me or DP won't make it/will get long term Covid/will be too ill to look after kids. I have a baby and don't feel my health back to normal yet - I don't think impact on babies is properly known. I'm scared kids will pass it to GPs.

I'd feel more safe if government acknowledged that schools were essentially a Russian roulette game, instead of pretending they were Covid secure. If the govt didn't tell such blatant lies (I know all governments do this), but this particular govt is just awful and takes it to another level. I also hate all those news pictures showing socially distanced schools. In fact this push to show schools as safe and Covid secure, the bollocks about senior school huge safe bubbles etc - I'm not surprised so many teenagers thought "fuck it" with parties etc over the summer - I don't blame them.

I'm scared of passing it unknowingly on to elderly relatives. I'm scared that I don't know what risks teachers and other parents have been taking. I'm sad that the rule of six now means that mixing with other families who had also been cautious has been removed for us and so for our kids to see anyone out of school now would mean enrolling in extra curricular activities - which increase exposure.

I'd feel safer if we didn't have such a narrow list of testing options, compared to most of the world. Id feel safer if this was acknowledged by the government, rather than pretending these other symptoms don't exist (even if they are UK studies!) - even if they admitted there wasn't capacity to test, but suggested not mixing with others whilst you have them. I'd feel safer if testing had greater capacity to close some of the chains of transmission etc (remember all those diagrams earlier on in the year). It would help us get back to a level of normal faster.

I'm just glad the push to go back to work when you could effectively wfh was not as successful as planned. Oh, and the conflict about whether to use public transport or not in London, coupled with the timely extension of the congestion charge was just shitty.

If we had effective testing for a wider range of symptoms, effective tracking, tracing, I'd be about a 4. If we had a successful tracing app too, then about a 2.

As it is, instead of trying to contain the spread effectively NOW, in terms of testing and sensible list of what to test for, some sensible measures in school, we are going to free fall into another shit show, where cases become much higher than they could otherwise be.

[covetingthepreciousthings]

I was about 6-7, but it's shot up since we got to day 4 and one DC already has symptoms so that's DC off school and isolating / testing already.

I'd have felt better if there had been a different approach, and schools had decreased class sizes even if it meant returning part time or on a rota basis. As we're back to 34-36 students, still having lunch in the school hall, pick ups have crowds of parents with no social distancing.

I'm not worried so much about DC getting it, but I'm concerned about vulnerable family members. Also worried about all the teachers facing all this with no PPE etc.

I can't see schools making it to half term at this rate

[Waxonwaxoff0]

1. I'm not scared of Covid on a personal level.

I'm more scared about the disruption to DS's education than I am about the virus.

[Snailsetssail]

1. 
   

I work in a secondary school. It’s a germ pit. I teach 32 15 year olds in a classroom with no windows.

[ChanceChanceChance]

I've woken up a 5 today.

[BatSegundo]

7 overall, but will go up if cases increase locally

2 for the kids (not worried about them dying from it but now know of two teens with long Covid through work)

9 for us, I was shielding until it was paused and DP is mid 50s

There is no social distancing in eldest's secondary school, the classes all mix, the windows don't open and they have air con

I was feeling more positive about the 30 in a bubble primary class until everyone including my DS came down with a cold, including kids in the parallel year group who are in a different bubble...

DS is off today with a heavy cold (we didn't even make it through the first week ) and I'm now crossing my fingers that he doesn't get a temp or a cough or we'll have to navigate the testing chaos.

[x2boys]

I'm in Bolton with two kids at Bolton schools so I'm anxious not so much for them but my Dh has underlying health issues so I'm concerned if they pass it on to him

[GreekOddess]

1 in terms of them getting the virus.

8 in terms of their education being disrupted.

[Showandtell1]

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[Ohyeahs]

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[ChanceChanceChance]

Those saying 0 are naughty rule breakers, scale was clearly 1-10!

I'm not sure how you are keeping sane in Bolton @BatSegundo, the numbers there are a bit

[ChanceChanceChance]

Sorry, wrong name picked out, is @x2boys in Bolton!

[Smudge3]

9

[x2boys]

Tes the numbers are crazy in Bolton ,all the surrounding areas are going up too but we are by far the highest .

[REDLIPSTICKANDNAILS]

1

[littlepeas]

1 for Covid.
5 for disruption.

[Adirondack]

Risk of child becoming seriously ill= 1.

Risk of child passing it on to others including me and other vulnerable relatives= 8 or 9.

There’s no real distancing happening in school.

[ChanceChanceChance]

There’s no real distancing happening in school

This is pretty universal I think. I wonder if private schools are distancing given they have smaller classes?

[notevenat20]

1 worry about they getting covid and 7 worry they will close schools again and/or the teachers will stop going to work.