Pulling kids from school?

[SnowSurprise]

Anyone starting to do think about doing this? Rates rapidly rising in our area with almost half the cases in the age group of my DC. Starting to think about Christmas and pulling the DC from school in the last week. Carol service is apparently still going ahead on 22nd which seems like an excellent way to spread lots of Christmas Covid. Debating DC1 coming down with something on the Saturday 18th and DC2 unfortunately not feeling great on the Monday....

@OnlyFoolsnMothers exactly what I was thinking. OP valued the school place when they needed it. There were plenty of parents who wanted that space who weren't keyworkers, shame OP couldn't swap, given how much importance they clearly put on being in school. If you are scared if passing on Covid OP why not wait until a bit later to visit grandparents? School breaks up in 17th? Could visit them 27th

OP valued the school place when they needed it. There were plenty of parents who wanted that space who weren't keyworkers, shame OP couldn't swap, given how much importance they clearly put on being in school. If you are scared if passing on Covid OP why not wait until a bit later to visit grandparents? School breaks up in 17th? Could visit them 27th
For the last time, there was no key worker thing or space for specific children. All primary schools in the country have been open since May 2020 for ALL children. I've no idea what secondary schools did, I didn't follow it because my DC are primary. There was no stealing of places. If you had read my posts you will see that we do not break up on the 17th. The school carol service is on the 22nd and school breaks up the following afternoon.

Instead of trying to tell me how I'm wrong, please read what I have written. From my side, I apologise for assuming that primary schools went back in the UK following a similar schedule, and that prolonged remote schooling was for secondary schools.

OP, you have been asked several times where you live as your experiences of schools being open to all pupils does not correlate with the law in Britain over the past 18 months.

If the schools are open and my children are able to go, they go to school. If you don’t want to send your dc, keep them at home, it’s no skin of my nose, but you seem to have decided this is what you are doing, so I’m not sure why you have asked a group of strangers on the internet to validate your decision. My dc loved the last few days of this term, a Christmas party, Christmas dinner day, lots of fun and social things for them to do. There’s no way I would have pulled them out so they missed these things- one dc had to isolate for the last week of The term last year And was devastated to miss all those things.

@Maryann1975

OP, you have been asked several times where you live as your experiences of schools being open to all pupils does not correlate with the law in Britain over the past 18 months. If the schools are open and my children are able to go, they go to school. If you don’t want to send your dc, keep them at home, it’s no skin of my nose, but you seem to have decided this is what you are doing, so I’m not sure why you have asked a group of strangers on the internet to validate your decision. My dc loved the last few days of this term, a Christmas party, Christmas dinner day, lots of fun and social things for them to do. There’s no way I would have pulled them out so they missed these things- one dc had to isolate for the last week of The term last year And was devastated to miss all those things.

I agree with this

but you seem to have decided this is what you are doing
No, I haven't decided. I haven't even mentioned the idea to DH yet. It was an idle musing and I wondered if anyone else was contemplating doing the same.

You still haven’t answered the question about where you live.
Most Mumsnetters live in the UK and their experience is different to yours and therefore the advice is a bit useless.

Why does it matter? You want my dob and mothers maiden name too? The question is the same: If your primary kids are in school, are you considering taking them out for the last week of term so that you can lower the risk of them being ill over Christmas or passing it on to susceptible elderly relatives?

No I'm not considering this at all.

@SnowSurprise you are asking people’s opinions when they aren’t in full possession of the facts.

Things are different outside of the uk. If you’re not telling us where you are this whole thing is pointless.

Just take your kids out of school. It’s really no greats shakes to me.

Nadolig Llawen

@SnowSurprise

Why does it matter? You want my dob and mothers maiden name too? The question is the same: If your primary kids are in school, are you considering taking them out for the last week of term so that you can lower the risk of them being ill over Christmas or passing it on to susceptible elderly relatives?

What country you live in is hardly private information!

No, I’m not considering taking DC out, but I (and PP) are answering based on UK/England school closures, isolation rules, etc.

I'm more worried about getting a d&v bug tbf, please don't take your children out of school, they need it for the social aspect of nativities, fayres, cinema trips etc.

Under 18s don't need to isolate if they are a close contact. Check your facts OP.

Apologies, no time to read every post.

Would depend entirely on your personal circumstances and their ages.

We took our youngest out in first year of sixth form a month before the first lockdown because his dad is CEV. He didn’t return, bar 6 days the following September, until numbers rapidly rose again (NW, was pretty bad here).

That was all pre-vaccine, though. He’s at university now, we’re both vaccinated and boosted. He lives away from home but will be home for Christmas, will LFT and we don’t have concerns.

If you and your partner are young and healthy, no, I don’t think I would. They’ll be breaking up a week before Christmas and you can test before you see your elderly relatives.

After last year, I think normality for children takes precedence now.

They’ll be breaking up a week before Christmas and you can test before you see your elderly relatives

My DC break up on the afternoon of the 23rd of December

My kids finish on the 10th

Why does everyone think the OP isn’t in the U.K.?

@Magicalwoodlands

Why does everyone think the OP isn’t in the U.K.?

Read back op posts - the primary schools are open to all which we didn’t have

@Magicalwoodlands

Why does everyone think the OP isn’t in the U.K.?

Because wherever the OP lives, primary schools have been open to all since May 2020.

I think she’s in the U.K.

@Magicalwoodlands

I think she’s in the U.K.

Why? Schools haven’t been open to all pupils since May 2020 in the U.K. so that wouldn’t make any sense.

@Magicalwoodlands

I think she’s in the U.K.

Her post at 18.12 suggests not as she said "I apologise for assuming that primary schools went back in the UK following a similar schedule"

@MissCruellaDeVil

Under 18s don't need to isolate if they are a close contact. Check your facts OP.

OP isn’t in the uk but won’t say where she is so we have no idea what rules they’re living under, making this whole thread a complete farce!

Fair enough, I did nose at her other posts and she doesn’t mention not being in the U.K.!

In answer to your question OP, no I wouldn't remove DS from school early. Because I'm in the UK so he has missed around 6 months of school already. Including the last week of school before Christmas last year as his class was isolating which he was very upset about. (In the UK, just one case in a class meant the whole class had to isolate for 2 weeks, later reduced to 10 days, last year which meant they missed quite a bit more school due to this. Don't know if the same approach was taken where you are?) He breaks up on the 17th, like a lot of UK schools, so I'm already taking the week before Xmas off work so another week before that will be tricky.

But these are UK specific reasons so are largely irrelevant to you.

No I wouldn't be pulling my dc out of school early for Christmas if others want to do so that's entirely up to them