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School breaking COVID restrictions

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Rosieposielaw · 09/02/2021 10:43

I’m a key worker and so my DC have been attending school. I have booked them onto holiday club for the February half term.

I have since found out that the school has opened this holiday club up to any child, not just those who are vulnerable or children of key workers.

I am very worried that my children will be mixing with many more households. I also think the school are breaking COVID restrictions, as other children are required to work from home. The school have told be that it is fine and allowed. Are they correct?

If not, Who can I report this to?

OP posts:

Hardbackwriter · 09/02/2021 12:50

@WatchWatch

it is getting frankly ridiculous that some children are allowed to attend school with other children and now attend holiday clubs doing activities, craft and baking

How do propose hospitals are staffed if holiday clubs don't run? More than half my department have primary aged kids.

I don't think anyone has suggested the holiday club shouldn't run, just that OP is being a bit unpleasant in insisting that it should be run for the benefit of her child and her work but not other people's.

TheChip · 09/02/2021 12:50

Its shit all round for kids, it really is. They're the ones least at risk as well. Its completely unfair what's happening with them, I think.

Layladylay234 · 09/02/2021 12:51

@GCAcademic

There is some serious othering of non-keyworker parent kids in your thinking, OP. Why are "those" children any more of a danger to your children than you are, going out to work in your keyworker job?

Yep,exactly my point. Amazing how quickly society turns against each other,and in this case,kids. Frightening

ChristmasinJune · 09/02/2021 12:52

So you have benefitted from the school provision from the start and will continue to do so through half term, but you would report your school in order to prevent other parents and children (who are probably pretty desperate by this point) from getting a few hours of respite?

Wow op, incredibly self centred. Please think again.

VaVaGloom · 09/02/2021 12:58

@WatchWatch How do propose hospitals are staffed if holiday clubs don't run? More than half my department have primary aged kids

I'm not saying that they shouldn't run, I'm saying that the Government need to look at what is happening with the children NOT attending school settings. One of my DC was out of school between March-Sept and now from January-March and quite possibly beyond that. With the rule in England only allowing one to one walks outside, which my Dc is too young for, that is the prospect of seeing no children and scraping by with a one hr live lesson a day (which I know is more than other people have) for months. Meanwhile I end up working on a night when I can concentrate! I've worked in the NHS I'm not suggesting its not important, just that other work is valuable too and that these children need onsite education and the opportunity to have some social interaction - which is why I said they need to implement rotas.

thewinkingprawn · 09/02/2021 12:58

There aren’t many posts on here that genuinely wind me up but this one really does. Must be having a bad day. OP - you have the benefit of having your kids in all the time so you get to go and work. Regardless of what you actually do and either you have another parent at hone (I’m sure you will say you don’t but half our school is full of one key worker parent other sahp families). Bloody good on any holiday club that is enabling other poor parents to do the same. You are not more important than anyone else trying to make a living. Take the week off if you are that bothered. So mean spirited.

Hardbackwriter · 09/02/2021 12:58

@Updatemate

I'm strictly trying to look from a kids POV here.

My kids POV is why can't they stay home and have fun with mummy and daddy like Bob is. They just don't understand. My kids would prefer to be home with us than at school, particularly as none of their friends are at school.

Genuine question - have you not had to self-isolate at any point? I find it quite hard to imagine doing that and then at the end thinking 'well, the lucky ones are the children who live like that essentially all the time'

Tinacollada · 09/02/2021 12:59

*Update
*
Good for you.
There are a lot of people not in your position

ZeldaPrincessOfHyrule · 09/02/2021 13:00

@Rosieposielaw

It’s not a sports activity, it’s childcare during the half term. There will be some activities, crafts, baking, etc.

The school is an Academy.

Thanks for the link

Yep, as PP have pointed out, that's allowed. There's nothing to 'report', OP.

thewinkingprawn · 09/02/2021 13:01

@WatchWatch

it is getting frankly ridiculous that some children are allowed to attend school with other children and now attend holiday clubs doing activities, craft and baking

How do propose hospitals are staffed if holiday clubs don't run? More than half my department have primary aged kids.

Oh come on - many many ‘key workers’ aren’t frontline hospital workers. I’d have no problem with the half term issue if it was solely used for that.

Minesril · 09/02/2021 13:03

This post reminds me of the pond life from a while ago who thought she should be allowed to have a proper Christmas, but not the delivery drivers/super market workers who enabled her to work from home.

Floridaflipflops · 09/02/2021 13:05

You should keep your kids at home OP if your so concerned. Your kids will be much happier as they dont want to even be there...

OliveTree75 · 09/02/2021 13:05

it is getting frankly ridiculous that some children are allowed to attend school with other children and now attend holiday clubs doing activities, craft and baking

I agree with you

KriekAndWaffle · 09/02/2021 13:13

@Rosieposielaw

I understand why the kids are at home. Therefore they should stay at home if thats the current rules. It’s not just about my children. It’s all those attending, the staff and consequences this can have.

We are so close to getting a control with the vaccine. I think silly mistakes now could cause problems, especially with the new variants

Why don’t you stay at home then? Take some annual leave or unpaid leave?

3littlewords · 09/02/2021 13:13

Well this back fired spectacularly didn't it OP

KriekAndWaffle · 09/02/2021 13:14

This.

Pretty unpleasant

ceeveebee · 09/02/2021 13:16

Some very emotional reactions on here
OP is factually correct in that holiday clubs are not allowed to open for any child who would not be eligible for a school place ie key worker or vulnerable. Whether people agree with it or not, that is a fact

Updatemate · 09/02/2021 13:18

Why don’t you stay at home then? Take some annual leave or unpaid leave?

Lots of places require you to book leave weeks or months in advance, like my NHS trust.

LOLeater · 09/02/2021 13:20

I’m confused. I thought we were in a pandemic? I thought groups meeting and mixing was no longer allowed?

So kids can’t go to lessons at school but this Academy is allowing ANY parents to register their kids for the one week of half term? Not just vulnerable children or those of key workers?

OP, what you do is up to you but I think the situation you describe could spread infection. And if it is allowed, why aren’t children in school learning?

KriekAndWaffle · 09/02/2021 13:29

@Updatemate

Why don’t you stay at home then? Take some annual leave or unpaid leave?

Lots of places require you to book leave weeks or months in advance, like my NHS trust.

If only schools published their holiday dates months in advance.

Updatemate · 09/02/2021 13:34

If only schools published their holiday dates months in advance.

Obviously they do, but a) I don't know many people who can take 57 days leave a year (the number of working days school holidays) and
b) not everyone can have the exact leave they want so even if I had applied for every school holiday day off, it would be very unlikely to be granted to ensure adequate ward staffing.

Keepingitreal14 · 09/02/2021 13:35

I'm going to go against the grain here and say I agree with you OP.

I don't know if they are allowed to open or not but assume they would have checked first.

Key worker children are not at school to benefit them, they are their to ensure key jobs are able to be done.

We are still in lockdown, no one should be mixing unless absolutely required. Anyone who manages without childcare term time should continue to manage in the holidays.

No I'm not a key worker, yes my children are home schooling, yes I work full time.

thelittlestrhino · 09/02/2021 13:44

@Tinacollada

Teachers are being regularly tested? I've not had a single test, ever!

KriekAndWaffle · 09/02/2021 13:48

@Updatemate

If only schools published their holiday dates months in advance.

I know how holiday requests and school holidays work thanks, having both a job and children of my own.

SpnBaby1967 · 09/02/2021 13:55

Thank goodness my kids can go to school so they dont have to associate with any of those children. Dirty children those other kids, way more of a risk to my little darlings than my DH and I as critical workers.

Call the school, give 'em what for OP the mere suggestion that those children should be allowed to be around the blessed critical worker children is appalling. It's almost pointless that the Gov't even decided to implement a class system for kids based on their parents jobs.

**note - sarcasm

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