School Return in England

[DadAManger]

May I ask whether any other parents are seriously considering keeping their children at home until Easter? I will explain my reasoning lest I am accused of being a bad parent...

1. In November and December my two children (just 13 and just 11) were told to stay isolate for the full two weeks even though schools were "open". This was due to several cases within the school coming to light
2. We look after my mother, who stays with us and who has just had her first AZ jab
3. I have an underlying health condition which means I will be jabbed a little earlier, but not yet (it is likely end of this month just before Easter)
4. I feel that the decision to re-open schools is quite political and was pushed by a group of back-benchers who consistently rush the government. This is the same group that pushed us all to return to physically working in the City back in September (remember that?), before the science caught up with us again

I am not at all anti-Government on the whole and know that we need to get things back to "normal" soon enough, but I would hate for my kids or myself and family to go back, get exposed and then be sent home again until Easter anyway, after a brief spell of a few days/a week back in classroom.

Would value views!

You are probably safer sending them now than Easter. We’ve all been stuck at home for MONTHS. Cases amongst children are probably pretty low! The first couple weeks be fine. And then luckily it’s Easter for a bit of a break.. I don’t think the initial sending back will be all that problematic in all honesty. I suspect we’ll see cases rising more during the summer term!

In my area cases are 192/100,000 . Two parents both cv, one has already had jab, other is on 19th March. Risk factors etc and a supportive school means it make more sense for us to homeschool until after Easter

I doubt no-one is as sad as I am but I have been reading "the science" behind the "roadmap" (hate that phrase almost as much as bubble) and it was interesting (to me).

www.gov.uk/government/collections/sage-meetings-february-2021

Do what you need to for your family. Your circumstances are different compared to others so your decisions will be different.

Our area has gone from 800+ in 100,000 to virtually nil on the Goverment website. I was all for closing the school for safety in December because it was ridiculously high, but I can’t justify not sending them in now.

I’m just going to keep an eye on the figures for our area. See what happens when the school reopens.

That being said you have to do what’s right for your family

** that’s the figure for the immediate area. The actual towns rate is 121 in 100,000 but it’s a big town so I’m not surprised it’s not lower

@HolmeH

You are probably safer sending them now than Easter. We’ve all been stuck at home for MONTHS. Cases amongst children are probably pretty low! The first couple weeks be fine. And then luckily it’s Easter for a bit of a break.. I don’t think the initial sending back will be all that problematic in all honesty. I suspect we’ll see cases rising more during the summer term!

Yes this is my view. It is the wider unlocking + schools that will see things really worsen.

It appears Johnson really learnt nothing from last year.

[quote StarCat2020]I doubt no-one is as sad as I am but I have been reading "the science" behind the "roadmap" (hate that phrase almost as much as bubble) and it was interesting (to me).

www.gov.uk/government/collections/sage-meetings-february-2021[/quote]
Yes I'm as sad as you

Really grim predictions from SAGE - and this is without any variant trouble.