Non London Tier 4 parents - are you sending your kids back if you don't HAVE to?

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We're on the North East. Both teaching from home next week so could keep 9 year old ds home.

It'd be tough with us both working, he wants to go back but we could keep him home

I know there's still time for whole Tier 4 closures etc so time to think and decide

Mine will be going in. However, considering hospitals are in many cases filled to greater capacity than they were in April, I don’t understand why if we needed a lockdown then (after all it was to protect the NHS) we don’t need one now?

I don’t mind school being closed but I don’t want to keep them home if it’s open. They want to go in and I don’t want them falling behind by missing teaching time that their peers will be having, home work will not be set if school is open.

Hoping the decision will be taken out of my hands, but leaning towards no.

I wonder what employers would think!

I know mines was supportive when schools were closed but I doubt they would be happy if I said I was keeping my kids at home when they could be at school.

I am Tier 3 & my children will be returning.

I don’t know a single person in real life who isn’t.

That ampgoo article is pure rubbish.

Use your brains.

‘An elderly nurse’ and ‘member of staff at the Royal College of Nursing’ rather give it away. It’s one of those fake news articles.

Im leaving my 9 yr old at home with my uni dd who isnt back in till the 25th. She will educate using oak academy as a guide.
We are tier 4 and so i have to go to work (school) and dh is emergency services so i feel there is enough risk already in my family.
Can i ask what those keeping off will be saying to school?
I might opt for the seld isolating lie as I suspect schools will close soon anyway.

If you live in tier 4, but your children go to school in tier 3 or vice versa; what’s the guidance?

Non-London T4, DD will be going back to pre- school next week. It's a very small nursery and we've had no cases so far. She's much happier when she can go into nursery, it's just a balancing act in terms of what decision to make. We are bubbled with MIL so we will have a chat with her about whether she is happy to continue with that.

@SendHelp30 I think you’re allowed to cross tiers for work and education. Pre second lockdown we were tier 2 and DD went to school in tier 1. Pretty sure same rules apply now.

@Panickingpavlova

Arf, all children need to be in schools, perhaps some peoples do but imagine people arguing this with bombs dropping!

Op, no definitely not.

Just to pull you up on the bombs dropping. Lots if people on here like to compare the situation now to WW2, well one of my Dad's favourite stories was about being in school with the bombs dropping, including the one that smashed all the glass in the windows during dinner.

We're sending ours, but the specific school they go to has had virtually no cases this entire time. I realise this might not be the case post-Christmas, but it doesn't seem as risky as other Tier 4 schools.

Thank you @Retrievemysanity

Ledkr. Im not happy with lying to the school so I wrote an email explaining (not asking) that I was taking child out and also explained my reasons a bit.

• higher transmissibility/tier 4 / 1 in 3 asymptomatic.

I said it in now way reflected on the school, just the situation we are in. That I was of course pro education and would do any work set for those isolating /or our owne educational activities and would review in 2 weeks.

Tier 4 here and my children will be in school.

I'm in tier 4 in London , but my child does to school in Surrey which is also tier 4. Of his school had been in the London Borough we live in it would be closed.. I am not sending him in for the first week and possibly the second week..

Lots of places in tier 4 that are not London have schools shut until the 18th anyway, including where I am. There was a big list on the BBC a few days ago.

My sons school is open on Tuesday.