What worries you more: 1) Your child catching Covid, 2) their schooling being disrupted?

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I'm more 2) than 1) if I'm honest...

@containsnuts

1.

Concern they spread the virus to older family members who we rely on and that I catch it and become too unwell to look after them. If that was the case, they would miss out on school anyway because there would be nobody to take them (single parent).

But older people (who want to be) are vaccinated...

Sorry, ignore my last post... It makes no sense

2 totally i honestly think most people who want schools shut want it for the benefit f adults not kids (short term benefit obviously no one really benefits when we don’t educate a generation whatever the teachers of mumsnet will tell you..so I survive the Covid pandemic and live another 2 years there will be no doctors unless we educate kid surely?!)

2. I assume DC have already had it at some point anyway. They've been to school and nursery pretty much throughout. I'd be surprised if they hadn't had it.

2 definitely. My youngest is about to enter y1 and has had roughly 1.5 terms of nursery and 2 terms of school. He has coped fine socially/emotionally but I am more concerned with his development than his older brother, who "only" struggled emotionally with lockdown (crying hysterically, signs of being depressed, felt pointless/worthless etc). I dread to think of the impact on mental health as well as development in the primary school age group.

2

2, without hesitation. Dd is going into y13, so already missed out on GCSEs. Her A-levels are more important than the tiny possibility she'll be actually unwell. And even so, a few weeks off ill would be less disruptive than closures and isolations. We've always taken the higher risk of sending dc to school rather than keeping them at home for a lesser education to protect them from the possibility of an rta on the way, covid isn't any different for us.

1. Seeing as I’m in a hotspot and this is the first natural wave.

Recently I saw how unpredictable the virus can be and it’s made me nervous. One of mine has no windows in their class.

2. by a long way.

My children (teens)are way behind where they should be. Lockdown and online learning and endless isolations have been very bad for their academic progress but also their physical and mental health.

3. Kids becoming disengaged from education. 2020-21 has given them a lot of messages that good quality training & education don't matter.

@Bizawit:Covid isn’t dangerous to one year olds. They probably wouldn’t even get symptoms, or at least they would most likely be extremely mild.

I really really hope you are right

2. absolutely 2. I'm not, and never have been, remotely worried about my DC catching covid.

I haven't ever been really scared of DH and I catching it, well maybe in the early weeks when it was all so unknown.

I mean I'd absolutely rather we didn't catch it of course, and we're both vaccinated and wear masks in shops still etc, but I'm not worried.

But as pp have said, I would feel very different if any of us were vulnerable.

Well I am not that scared for any of my family, rightly or wrongly I never really have been

But I have always been worried about passing it on which can still happen

So 2, but only just

Still 1. To add another single parent angle to it, part of the fear for me is the isolation. Genuine need for total isolation if the household was confirmed positive. Horrible to think of being so alone trying to look after unwell kids while feeling unwell myself even if not seriously or needing hospital it's still a worry. Even during lockdown I could 'bubble' and get family to help if I realy needed it. In the past when unwell I could ask my elderly family members to help out. I couldn't risk it with covid.

As previous posters have pointed out not doing 1 creates 2, so 1 for me.
Coupled with the fact that none of my family have had it yet.

2

No 2

Ds attended school as a vulnerable pupil during lockdowns so I have to say 2. He is at higher risk of covid ( hopefully this will now be mitigated by the vaccine) but the risk of mental health and behaviour difficulties requiring a secure placement are higher.

1 not for them but because DH is CEV and we’ve all been so careful for so long, catching it at school - where most measures will have been dropped when they go back - would be difficult to stomach
Also, I didn’t choose 2 because, frankly, their school has been so good at helping those who have had to isolate (and all through the lockdowns) that they have managed to maintain an excellent level of education and both remained highly self motivated throughout. And, if anything, it actually suited at least one of them better working from home. Which goes to show our priorities can all differ so much depending on our personal circumstances and experiences.

@Dghgcotcitc

2 totally i honestly think most people who want schools shut want it for the benefit f adults not kids (short term benefit obviously no one really benefits when we don’t educate a generation whatever the teachers of mumsnet will tell you..so I survive the Covid pandemic and live another 2 years there will be no doctors unless we educate kid surely?!)

I too have my suspicions. This is clearly true of at least some of them.

Saying 1 makes me more worried doesn’t mean I want for 2 to happen. I’m just less concerned about it.

2 wasn’t a terrible experience for us, we managed fine due to personal circumstances. Whereas I don’t know how 1 will go and I’ve seen serious cases, up close. If they had had covid mildly already I would have said 2

2 no question at all.