Is anyone pulling out of school for the last week?

[wondersun]

Just that really, just being nosey!

No fucking way.

@wondersun my fault my posts were really unclear. Appreciate it's a really different picture in other places.

No, my son has already missed two weeks of school self isolating, technical difficulties with accessing on line work So working from home was not a success.

I want mine in as much as possible.

Please don't pull your children out of school 'just in case'. It's been wonderful having them back in 💓 I can only speak for my own class (and school) but they are much more settled than you might think and really are making great leaps in their learning 🥰 It would be just awful to see all of this progress start to slip back again.

Are you a cartoon character? Why would you 'pull' your child out of school? There's no pulling involved, your child is not standing on a train track that you need to physically pull him off.

Why be so aggressive and flouncy? Why not just say you have decided to keep your child at home or not send him to school?

I'll be keeping mine in for as long as possible, 3 months of home schooling 5 children 2 with asd and on my own as husband had to work and 2 of my children at the time was told to shield was utter hell ( they have asthma both well controlled but was precaution back then when not much known about the virus).
Love them to bits but they need to go to school for their mental wellbeing and mine.

No of course not . That's just another example of hysterical parents thrusting their anxiety onto their kids.
We are going to have a generation of some seriously messed up young people if this carries on

Not a chance. One I'm a teacher so if would be entirely futile and two we had to isolate briefly waiting on a test for our youngest and my eldest was in tears that she couldn't go to school.

Absolutely no way.

@GinWithRosie

Please don't pull your children out of school 'just in case'. It's been wonderful having them back in 💓 I can only speak for my own class (and school) but they are much more settled than you might think and really are making great leaps in their learning 🥰 It would be just awful to see all of this progress start to slip back again.

I agree. My classes are all enjoying it and the older ones that I have spoken to are really frustrated with the whole thing. They were telling me yesterday that there's no logic and pointing out all the - correct - flaws in the system. Everyone I've taught wants to be there and wants to be seeing their friends. Definitely not isolating at home.

@Quarks69

As a teacher, reading these threads has really cheered me up. It is so good to know that all the difficult restrictions we are working under is working for the students, and parents can see that.

Any chance all you lovelymnetters send even just one email to say thank you to one of their children’s teacher?

I know it’s our job, but we really are all on our knees, and for all the complaining emails we get... it would be so wonderful to get some positive feedback Before half term,. It really is unbelievably stressful in many schools.

🙂

I’ve given our teachers some chocolates - we’ve not been there but I really am so grateful for all you’re doing 💐 x

@Worriedmum999

We have a vulnerable family member and numbers in our area have just got to 50 in 100,000 so I’m starting to feel a bit anxious. I am just trying to keep them in for next week then we have 2 weeks off for half term thankfully. I shall be very reluctant to send them back after half term as I know that many of the families at school are planning on swanning off all over the place, many to high risk areas such as London over the break so I have no doubt that some will bring the virus back to school.

However, i think we will be in a very different place in 3 weeks. The virus is out of control, rampaging through schools and the government is making so many mistakes (such as with unis) I think many places will have full hospitals by then. I’m sure lots of parents will be thinking twice about waving their child off every morning in the middle of a pandemic when local medical care has broken down. I have enrolled my children in online school from November as I’m sure we will be needing it.

Take care 💐

I work in a school & my dc are at school in London. The dc & me are so much happier bring back.

Was talking to next door neighbours - their DS is six and in Y2. As both parents were working full time from home during lockdown he did no schooling at home but now he’s back in school, the difference is amazing. The teachers have gone back to where they were in learning March and he is a different little boy to the angry unhappy boy who wouldn’t even open a book.

What benefits would there be to pulling him out of school? His parents work full time and aren’t teachers. Leave teaching to the experts and let the children enjoy playing with their friends whilst learning.

DC staying in school.

This thread does remind me of the ones in early March, when the number of posters thinkng about or actually taking their DC out of school started to be perceptible, and the calls for schools to close (and more restrictions) ASAP really began.

Once again, we need restrictions to be at the most effective time and for the shortest possible duration, as they are onerous.

Dontforget

Its not hysterical at all - is it really so far beyond your comprehension that different people have different circumstances? Im a lone parent with no family, a disabled dc and another who was shielding. If I get ill my dc go into foster care.

Cases are through the roof where I am, local lockdown not working and my local hospital just closed yesterday due to an outbreak so no help available if the worst happens. If anything I'd be negligent as a parent to send mine to school much longer in my circumstances.

Some people cant see beyond the end of their nose.

My DS is at school but DH is vulnerable (and it'd be hard to isolate from him but will if necessary). We aren't pulling him out now but our local rates have shot up and are second highest in the county. No known cases at school but we've had to test and isolate DS twice now due to him picking up bugs from school. He was sent home one of those times and I felt so bad for the teacher, but if he picks anything up, it's 90% likely it's from school, since we don't go anywhere and we still quarantine our deliveries.

We are balancing things as best we can, but I know we'll be pulling him from school if our area gets anywhere like some of the cities in northern England. DS is only 4 though. Honestly he loves school but doesn't fuss or complain when he has to miss school either. I prefer him to be in school either way, but I just won't risk sending him to school in a high rate area. There are many parents who feel the same as I do and we are all tentatively bracing ourselves for the winter.

I would definitely not take them out voluntarily. We have had 4days self isolation this week as DD1 has a cough. Desperately awaiting results. DD2 was supposed to be going to Brighton with best friend for birthday Treat. They have gone without us, hoping results come in to allow her birthday lunch tomorrow to go ahead.

I have 3DC, DS is 16 and at 6th form college and week in /week home study, so he hasn’t missed anything. DD1 (13) has a cough, but isn’t ill. She has completed work set for her online. DD2 (10 this week) has done online maths/spellings and a couple of pieces of work. I have WFH all through so hard to supervise and motivate youngest for school work.

The girls have been really hyperactive this week, missed out of school activities and actually driven me nuts yesterday. So no, not a chance I’ll keep them out of school.

We are in the London borough with highest rate right now, one at school in that borough, others in (separate) neighbouring boroughs and I want then to get as much in person school as they can.

They are all much happier to be back and it is so much easier for me to work now they are,

Absolutely not, clinging to school.with the edge of my fingernails to the last second.
Why on earth would I take away more education from them.
We are going to have to learn to live with this.

@Willyoujustbequiet that must be really stressful for you, so I do see why you must be very concerned. But, gently, you might want to consider that the average age of death with covid is 83. Unless you’re very clinically vulnerable you’re extremely unlikely to be seriously unwell. Which leaves you with the possibility of feeling ill for a couple of weeks in the same way you might with any number of viral illnesses. What do you do in those circumstances? Do you consider pulling your child out of school during flu season in case you’re ill and they have to go to foster care?

*Our vulnerable member would have direct contact.

Thousands and thousands of families are in such a horrible predicament right now.

I’m not sure it’s fair to say it’s “utter insanity” either.

It’s a new virus and everyone’s circumstances and outlooks are going to be different, just like they are with anything else.

I think the starting point should always be that parents know best and believe in choice for everyone.

One size never fits all. Teaching since 1998 has taught me that if nothing else.*

I’m sorry but I do think it’s completely mad to pull children out of school. If at all possible I would make sure that I did minimal contact with the family member and not even consider taking my children out of school. I’m not sure parents do know best. The reality of this virus is that it is running rampant, that is pretty evident. The evidence is also that children and young people simply aren’t getting ill from it and actually the absolute vast vast majority of adults also make a full recovery without intervention. There are obviously exceptions to this but the risks to further disruption of education, mental health, poverty and other issues far outweigh the risk of healthy children being in school: so yes. I do think it’s insane to remove them from school.

@Willyoujustbequiet

Dontforget

Its not hysterical at all - is it really so far beyond your comprehension that different people have different circumstances? Im a lone parent with no family, a disabled dc and another who was shielding. If I get ill my dc go into foster care.

Cases are through the roof where I am, local lockdown not working and my local hospital just closed yesterday due to an outbreak so no help available if the worst happens. If anything I'd be negligent as a parent to send mine to school much longer in my circumstances.

Some people cant see beyond the end of their nose.

So true, horrible times and empathy seems to be the thing that’s been left behind the most.

I hope you find a good way through this for you and yours x

Definitely not. DS has only had 80% attendance this half term as it is.

@chantico

DC staying in school.

This thread does remind me of the ones in early March, when the number of posters thinkng about or actually taking their DC out of school started to be perceptible, and the calls for schools to close (and more restrictions) ASAP really began.

Once again, we need restrictions to be at the most effective time and for the shortest possible duration, as they are onerous.

Yes, I think I was a lurker back then!

I feel the same and I can’t help thinking that if the lockdown had been sooner more lives would have saved and it would have been a shorter / nicer (if that’s possible!) lockdown.

Just to be clear I really want my normal life back! Trying to work out what’s best. On top of vulnerable member I have the fact that myself and OH aren’t really young either. OH relies on running for mental health, long covid scares me for him too.

I worry less about the kids (although I’m conscious not much research here yet in the scheme of things) but I do believe they transmit and worry about the effects of the adult impacts on them.

We are a high area but equally I’ve felt like this for a long time.

This is such a lovely thread to read. I hope teachers have seen it and know how grateful we are for all they do and what a huge difference they have made to children's lives this half term. Hopefully, one positive out of this terrible situation is that many of us will value teachers and education more than ever before. I'll definitely be emailing my dc's teachers to thank them (thank you to the poster who suggested this).