Do you think all schools will open next week?

[Teaga]

Just wanted to see what others think as the thought that schools are opening next week is making me increasingly nervous.

I have family and friends that work in the NHS and I think hearing the strain they are under at the moment is heightening it for me. Last night the three local hospitals were at capacity with ambulances waiting outside for hours.

I’m not worried about getting ill from the virus really as I have had it and personally was not too bad for me. However I know 3 people that have been hospitalised that aren’t elderly so I know that my experience is not the same as everyone else’s.

I think that the schools going back is going to drag this on longer and take so much more time to get it under control. I’m worried about the wider community and the NHS mainly. Lots of people were waiting a long time for urgent treatment last night and I feel we haven’t had the worst of it yet.

So for me I would prefer for schools to be shut until feb and the vaccines get pushed through to get things more under control. I know not everyone feels like me and there are many reasons for and against either way which I do understand.

But personally do you think that all children will be back next week?
My DC is primary aged and I’m in tier 4.

nope. i think theres an announcement from Boris to come yet

think they will all be closed personally....nurseries too

I hope they will be closed because the alternative seems to be avoidable COVID deaths, breading the NHS and so other avoidable deaths, and turning Britain into a petrindish for further mutations.

*petri dish

No idea but I bloody hope so!

I don't think they will, but anything could change with this government

Primaries going back as normal (according to Tes)

I saw my sons teacher this morning and she said as far as she knows they will be back. We are tier 3 but most likely will be tier 4 soon.

I think they will either close in Tier 4 (5?) or find themselves shut quite quickly for lack of staff.

I found it very difficult to have DD(2/3) at home last time while trying to do a job supporting a lot of vulnerable people and going through absolute hell personally, but I'm ready to keep her home through Jan.

Nope

There with you OP. DH is funeral director and is absolutely swamped at the moment, he actually commented last night that it feels like March all over again (we are currently Tier 3) I don't want my children to be off school for various reasons logistical and emotional but it doesn't feel safe

Well now, all children will not be back next week and we have known that since before the Christmas holiday.

Secondaries are not back next week.

I think primaries back on the 4th. Secondary remote learning until the 18th. This will be regardless of tiers.

It's looking like primaries will be but secondaries not back until the 18th, according to another thread.

I know what the current plan is but I’m hoping for a change of plan given the current situation and was wanting to gage if others felt that was likely or not. Obviously none of us know what the government will decide in the end as I really didn’t think that the Christmas plans would change so late especially as Boris had said that it would be cruel if they did days before.

My colleagues in the primary school were stressed before they broke up and will be even more stressed by next week.
The cases went up and up in no time at all and many children ended up not coming in at all the final week.
People want to work in a safe environment and it's just not at the moment.
I'm lucky I only do a few hours there but it's impossible to SD the children.
I can see all the arguments for staying open but I've a feeling it could be carnage and children will be on the isolation merry go round again till the next half term.

Op tes has leaked that thing about opening on 4th.

Personally I think it would be a crime against us if they try and make pupils go back.

I'm not sending my primary age dd in on 4th nor that week nor the week after. We have no data that I'm aware of to say whether children will or won't be more affected by this strain.

Other dd it seems had been brought more time (secondary)... Two weeks on line and I'll extend that by another and then review

No. Can't see them opening