Will you be sending your child to school in lockdown?

[peacockfeather11]

I know they will be open, but I am curious to see if parents will feel they will be safer at home.

@strangeaddiction are you particularly vulnerable to the virus?

Yes I will send my children whatever for as long as possible.
I strongly appose closing schools.
I also work with children, covid actually has little impact in them as an illness. But my god the increase in child abuse, delayed presentation of seriously ill children including head injuries and cancers and the obvious increase in child mental health problems has been horrendous. Not even mentioning the damage to families. This will have long term consequences we need education for our next generation.
Sorry but schools must stay open teachers need to put children first.
Why were people allows to swan off on holidays, eat out etc etc over summer? And what is all this nonsonce over Christmas? Who cares, we need school not extended family over for a turkey dinner. So no I will not keep my children off school.

@SentientAndCognisant

The education of children cannot solely be a parental choice/preference.

It’s too big and carries too many individual and societal ramifications for it to be left to individual parents
The children need to remain in education and In social contact with teachers and other pupils. In order to grow educationally, build resilience, grow and learn educationally and socially

Some parents will have a cautious outlook and if able to would chose not to send children to school. Based on their parental preference. The govt cannot simply acquiesce to letting parents decide. Not all parents will do the right thing

Education is more than the act of reading text and undertaking study, it’s immersive and experiential and best lead by teachers who are expert in what they do

I would trust the average parent to do the right thing far more than Johnson, Hancock, Gove & the rest of this bunch of corrupt, scientifically illiterate chancers.

I strongly appose closing schools.
I also work with children, covid actually has little impact in them as an illness. But my god the increase in child abuse, delayed presentation of seriously ill children including head injuries and cancers and the obvious increase in child mental health problems has been horrendous. Not even mentioning the damage to families. This will have long term consequences we need education for our next generation.

Good points.

@3littlewords

Yes if anything it will be slightly safer due to limited interactions outside of school

This makes me feel better about it and I truly hope it will be much safer without many of the children mixing at other clubs after school and visiting friends and family. But deep down it feels wrong to send my DC in to school when the advice for everyone else is to stay at home. Except of course teachers and other essential workers who can't stay at home. Just a horrible situation.

Yes. Both me and DP are teachers in secondary schools. Will be sending DC to their respective primary school and nursery and hope for the best.

100000%, no question.

But deep down it feels wrong to send my DC in to school when the advice for everyone else is to stay at home.

But we're making sacrifices and staying at home SO THAT schools and hospitals can stay open.

No, mine will be staying at home

Very true @sonnenscheins

[quote olivesonapizza]@strangeaddiction are you particularly vulnerable to the virus?[/quote]
Unfortunately I have disabled/vulnerable/elderly family members who I care for and support.

I also have a bmi over 40 and although I haven't been diagnosed with chronic bronchitis after reading the symptoms I feel that it's a very real possibility. I've had two colds in as many months and the last couple of years I have a cough with and after a cold that takes months to go.

My dc are healthy so I'm not particularly worried about them catching COVID although I'd prefer they didn't (unknown long term side effects etc) they are worried about spreading it within the family - to dh who is high risk and to me as I do the care and support for dh, dm, dgm, and mil.

There’s no risk to kids, unless you’re shielding it’s not a decision

Most of the people who died last time were not the extremely vulnerable, they were the vulnerable. Diabetics etc.

Only the extremely vulnerable shielded. Anyone who has the annual flu jab is vulnerable.

@MH1111

There’s no risk to kids, unless you’re shielding it’s not a decision

Tell that to the families with children ill in hospital now, or the ones still ill months later with long covid, or the ones whose childreb died. How about the children who have lost relatives because they brought the virus home.

It really isnt zero risk

Nope, I don’t understand why it’s not socially acceptable to want to avoid covid. I can teach them at home, so I will.

By the time courts catch up with me I think it’ll be Boris in trouble not me.

Kids learning and happier too. They really absorbed all the socially distance, stay away from older relatives lessons from school in early March. They’d be scared. It’ll be better in the Spring.

Every circumstance different though, I’m on a SAHM break, would maybe feel different in another circumstance.

People just need to unapologetically do what is right for their family, it’s nobody’s choice to live with but your own.

One upside of this pandemic is I’m a lot more blasé about what people think and I hope supportive of differences.

We know our kids’ and their best interests best!

I really think that the schools should provide an option for remote learning to keep both teachers and parents safe. Lockdown 2.0 has the colder weather to complicate things further. Why does the government need the worse case scenarios to become a reality before they act??*

You think teachers have time to carry out both classroom teaching and prepare internet based work? What fucking planet are you on?

Covid is a public health emergency and it requires national coordination to plan for education
This needs to be a govt and local authority lead process not individual
parents. Some Individual parents will by inclination gravitate to a cautious approach and not look at bigger picture. Education during covid requires an oversight and policy based on scientific info and not simply parental preference

Mine are staying home an extra week and we'll see what happens after that. School has a bigger than usual catchment area (1600 square miles) and a few hotpots of cases within. Attendance in school was low before half term and everything is available online.

Yes but reluctantly. DD isn't super happy at school and her best friend is not going back after half term (Covid related, long story) and she is very upset about that. DH is teaching in secondary school (DD is in primary) so we can't avoid risk but if there was any possibility of me being able to home school her for a while I would. Unfortunately, I just can't with work commitments at the moment so she'll have to muddle along.

I wonder if they might extend the Christmas holidays? Start them a bit earlier or go on a bit later? I think on balance they do have to try and keep schools open (though am not comfortable with health risks to teachers...) but I'd definitely support a longer holiday.

Dawn teachers can record lessons to be accessed.
Many just put oak tree on line.
I'd rather be handed a curriculum list.

The ways it's been handled and the stress and the worry is appalling.
If they had said,break for 2 or 3 weeks over half term, back, everyone else in lock down but, longer Xmas holidays, it would surely placate those who don't want dc at home, and those who don't feel safe. Give us a raft to cling onto and try and keep going.
But there is nothing raft, nothing, no structure...

Keeping schools open this time is one of the few things that the government have got right. Both myself and DCs dad have have worked throughout but it‘s not a childcare issue. Oldest DC is at high school and spent lockdown pissing about on Xbox and social media, we couldn’t home school because we were at work and unfortunately some teenagers need a watchful eye to make sure they actually get their heads down. Now back at school, we have an excellent routine and learning is actually taking place. A lot of people have to go out to work or they don’t earn (but aren’t key workers so couldn’t get a key worker school place).

Yes but they're both at primary. If they were at high school and me or their dad were vulnerable for some reason then it might be different.
I do think the govt should close schools for a couple of weeks to get cases down more quickly.

@Char2015

No.

Have you de-registered?

@thisismylife12

My husband is vulnerable. And can work from home. There has been a number of cases in my two children’s schools. Why would I want to take the risk if he is being told to work from home and lock down and still send my kids into school where the school is not following proper provisions put in place and loose my partner. I’m waiting to see what he says about fines ect... it wasn’t ok in March for our children to be in school it was too risky the cases are even higher now never mind the deaths but it’s ok. No Thankyou!

Unless you've deregistered then you're in for a load of fines and possibly worse