Critical workers please

[Bramblespoint]

Are critical workers aware of this advice?

Please please follow it if you can. Lockdown will last longer if more children attend school.

Keep your children at home if you can. It's hard isn't an excuse, it's hard for everyone it's a pandemic

By the looks of our school at drop off I don't think anyone is aware of this

I think people are aware but it is more important to them that their DC are in school
Not saying they are right but I do think that is the way it is for a lot of people

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Here we go again. Schools wouldn’t take the children if they weren’t eligible

@Sorryusernamealreadyexists

Here we go again. Schools wouldn’t take the children if they weren’t eligible

Sorry many threads about the same thing

@Sorryusernamealreadyexists

Here we go again. Schools wouldn’t take the children if they weren’t eligible

This was only released yesterday.... Schools were unaware this was the guidance when offering places so I suspect things may change

There's a lot of people on MN who seem to have a lot of spare time to advise others on how they should live.

No that's always been the case. Which is why dd is at home and always has been. I'm not sure if you intend this post as a key worker bashing post op but if you do, desist. Things are really hard right now and everybody needs to wind their neck in.

@helpmum2003

There's a lot of people on MN who seem to have a lot of spare time to advise others on how they should live.

Exactly, loads of people moaning about homeschooling but being on threads all day long arguing the toss.

Schools are taking in chidlren who aren’t eligible as they are being lied to by so many parents who honestly just don’t want to parent their own children. I am horrified but the selfish entitlement of some parents. I am not talking about genuine critical workers. I am talking about for example (a real one), two parents - one working from home (classed as key worker) the other a sahm send their child to preschool 5 days a week as he is so much happier there than at home. With that sort of attitude we are going to get nowhere. Your child likes routine? Then give them one at home!

@Trumplosttheelection

No that's always been the case. Which is why dd is at home and always has been. I'm not sure if you intend this post as a key worker bashing post op but if you do, desist. Things are really hard right now and everybody needs to wind their neck in.

Not at all key worker bashing if you need provision please use it. But if you have a parent at home please don't send kids to school.

I guess I'm just worried lockdown will last forever

Ffs not another one

Our school hammers this message home on a daily basis.

My husband is a critical key worker I wfh full time my son goes to school and my son goes to school I don't really want to lose my house if I lose my job

I expect the teachers and other school staff don’t want to catch Covid and possibly die and therefore loose their jobs and their homes either.....

I hear far more about critical workers not being able to get spaces because they are ‘prioritising’ or ‘limiting numbers’.
My friend is a paramedic, asked to provide proof of shifts. Won’t give a space as not usually working those hours, yet she at the moment would be really useful.
Another is a doctor, normally works very little (can afford to just do a little locum work) bit is willing to do far more. Can’t get a space as she didn’t need one in March, when she wasn’t being offered shifts and didn’t need it.
Another works in retail, is facing losing her job.
Another I know of has DV in the house and a child with EHCP, but the school (special) is only taking ‘extremely vulnerable’. Providing no transparency as to what that means.
Another I know of works only 2 school days, so no space- midwife having to work shifts.
Others I know in the NHS are cracking up mentally as they have been told to work ‘opposite shifts’ to keep the kids home. Imagine that. 10/12 shifts. Either working or looking after young children. Nearly zero time in your life to sleep. My friend is an A&E nurse and sleeps about 2am-6am and a nap of around an hour. Could you honestly do that long term?

Stop swallowing the government propaganda and media hype wholesale. Yes across the country there is the odd parent playing the system, the few schools with too many. However the overall picture is overwhelming key workers mentally struggling, schools only staffing with TAs minimal numbers as they do online learning and finding a million reasons to refuse valid requests for spaces.

What is pissing me off is the ever more reasons to turn on each and deflect blame to others people’. It’s all constantly bad as other people Don’t follow the rules apparently, if only they did the government would be able to manage this well...

Nothing has changed this has always been the case, some schools are grilling parents more than others and pushing those that are eligible but could have the children home (eg a sahp) to not take up the place. There is also a huge guilt trip going on to keep the numbers down. There are a lot of people that fall in the middle though, where a parent is technically home but isn’t available to care for children due to their working demands and employers won’t be flexible if a key worker place is available and at the moment there is nothing making them, hence they do “require” the place even though one parent may not be the critical worker

Oh, this again

Not again ffs don't you think we would keep our kids at home if we could ?? Maybe mind your own business ???

@Helpmyhair2019

I expect the teachers and other school staff don’t want to catch Covid and possibly die and therefore loose their jobs and their homes either.....

Well sorry but I don't either so what do I do ? Btw my husband is a critical worker too

Just because a parent is wfh doesn't mean the children shouldn't be at school if the parent is a key worker.

You cannot work properly at home with a young child

@Lazypuppy

Just because a parent is wfh doesn't mean the children shouldn't be at school if the parent is a key worker.

You cannot work properly at home with a young child

Exactly these posts fuck me off I have followed the rules for 10 months thinking of everyone else and I am sorry but I am not putting my kids out on the street

We are 2 doctors. We have tried (most of this year) to alternate shifts/days. For example my DH working 12 hours today and tomorrow so he is off on Wednesday when I work. We are also employing a nanny 2 days a week (she can’t work more days).
We have used a lot of annual leave covering days this year. We employed another ad-hoc nanny before but she has now found a different field of work.
However there is one day next week neither of us can take off or swap, my DH is going in for half a day 9-2 so I’ll be late for work and he’ll be back by 3. So they are going to school.
I’m fed up of feeling guilty about this. I didn’t use one day of school last time.

Let the school regulate this/ get the guidance.