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.

No mine will all be at home

Yes, my child's school is fortunately very strict with the measures they have in place and because of this they've had very few cases of covid. My child has adapted to all the measures and is happy being back. Our school does virtual music tuition held at school with the tutor being at home, colour coded bubble in place for this. Our school have been fantastic during this period.

Nope. I’m taking mine out for a couple of weeks and homeschooling until the numbers go down. I’ve got a heart condition and whilst the virus itself isn’t necessarily a worry for the kids so far all studies suggest they catch and transmit it the same rate as adults. I’ve got no problem homeschooling my kids and it’s idiotic to say a couple of weeks in school is worth risking my health over. I genuinely just don’t think a lot of parents can cope with their kids at home but if they want to risk it that’s their choice.

Yes, one at primary, one at secondary, one at sixth form. Oldest is on a rota system at sixth form. They’ll all be going in.

Yes. I have two year 10s, high risk area. One was out of school for four weeks this term due to cases at school.

Need them in as long as we can. Every day is a bonus.

Yes. They need to be in school.

Yes - sixth former.

Unsure. Would love to know the number of positive cases over half term (I expect lots - there were 13 before half term). Dd is vulnerable. A relative has long Covid and if we get it like that we would lose our livelihood and I couldn’t care for Dd.
With the usual coughs and colds making children cough it’s scary being crammed in a class without masks on. Classmates have tested positive but the school only sends home the ones sitting right next to them even though they are all crammed in ‘study’ spaces between lessons.

just don’t think a lot of parents can cope with their kids at home but if they want to risk it that’s their choice.

What a terrible thing to say!

Yup. From the first day of lockdown, the risks get lower surely, so it doesn't really make any sense to be ok sending them curretly but then keep them off as the risk lowers?

I do wish they would scrap the fining though, I think thats massively shit on parents who may prefer their kids home.

@NRatched

Yup. From the first day of lockdown, the risks get lower surely, so it doesn't really make any sense to be ok sending them curretly but then keep them off as the risk lowers?

I do wish they would scrap the fining though, I think thats massively shit on parents who may prefer their kids home.

According to Independent sage, it will take literally weeks to make any progress [8wks plus] without closing schools. Schools are one of the main drivers of covid.

If they had closed schools, the effects would have been more dramatic and numbers would have fallen much quicker. Not this way. It will be long and drawn out.

Yes - Y1 and nursery. DS2 (15 m will be at home with me).

I genuinely just don’t think a lot of parents can cope with their kids at home but if they want to risk it that’s their choice.

Well no I can't, not if trying to work as well and/or trying to keep the autistic one calm.

I'm not particularly risking anything, well not enough that it is worth them not going to school over.

According to Independent sage, it will take literally weeks to make any progress [8wks plus] without closing schools.

Yet numbers are reducing significantly in ROI without closing schools.

covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/

Of course. It was completely wrong to close schools the first time round.

What date did Ireland lockdown?

Yes. We are in one of the lowest infected areas. Y11 super important year.

What date did Ireland lockdown?

There’s no one answer to that.

Roughly though, stricter measures about 3/4 weeks ago (county dependent) and in proper lockdown for a week and a half.

Looking at the data, a strict ban on household visiting seems to have made the most significant impact.

I'll be sending mine. If they closed the school I'd send him to a keyworker place so it's no different for me.

Yes definitely (though nursery not school). I'm relieved that her nursery will still be open (assume it will since schools will be), she'd be deprived of any social interaction otherwise as her other toddler activities will close. We're not clinically vulnerable or close to anyone who is, so her development and early years education is the priority for me.

According to Independent sage, it will take literally weeks to make any progress [8wks plus] without closing schools.

Well yes, I didn't mean it wouldn't affect the rates falling. What I meant was, the risk is say 100x now to a child in school. If lockdown starts tomorrow, next weeks risk will be 95x, then 90x and so on, in theory, when the closing of other things starts taking effect. So, I don't see why parents would be scared to send their kids as the risk lowers, if they have been ok sending them at 100x? Not sure if I am explaining myself right or not here, have taken my meds so possibly not..

The schools being the main drivers thing is very interesting to me, as I remeber before the schools closed last time, it was being spread around the press that it would only change the rate of spread 4% or something very very low, that closing schools wouldn't make that much difference overall. I wonder what changed there.

Honestly, I don't see the point of a 'lockdown' with schools open. Maybe primaries as it seems youg kids barely spread at all. But older kids clearly do. So nowt much is going to change really, and its blatantly obvious this '4 week lockdown' will be from the '3 week lockdown' school of thought, which ended up being 4 months as it was extended over and over!

@Coconutwinter

Nope. I’m taking mine out for a couple of weeks and homeschooling until the numbers go down. I’ve got a heart condition and whilst the virus itself isn’t necessarily a worry for the kids so far all studies suggest they catch and transmit it the same rate as adults. I’ve got no problem homeschooling my kids and it’s idiotic to say a couple of weeks in school is worth risking my health over. I genuinely just don’t think a lot of parents can cope with their kids at home but if they want to risk it that’s their choice.

That's a ridiculous thing to say and very rude for those keeping their children in school. So, your children usually go to school in normal circumstances so I'm assuming you can't cope either otherwise you'd just home school them?.

You should really be quick to listen and slow to judge.

As long as they're still open, yes mine are still going.

I'm on the fence but leaning towards no. Cases are rife here and I know several under 40s with no health conditions that have died. 2 women in their twenties amongst them