Are you keeping your kids off school?

[ThievesTemple]

Anyone doing this? Interested to hear if anyone considering this given high infection rates this close to Christmas.

I’ve considered not sending mine in but they need all the last week stuff for their mental health. Totally get why people would keep their kids off though. I’m risking not being able to see my family which is hard.

Nope. School > seeing family

@TyotyaKlava

I need advise. We are due to go away this Friday and my oldest daughters class has three positive cases. We did pcr test on her and it came back negative this morning. It is getting risky though and our trip might get cancelled if any of us gets a positive test result. I wfh, my husband will wfh from tomorrow to be on a safe side. My youngest goes to nursery and there was one confirmed case at her nursery - we got notified today. I’m getting a bit nervous now. Shall I keep both kids off school/nursery? Last week of school for my dd1 and she is year 2 so can’t be that crucial? Thanks!

I would keep them off. Two weeks in Mexico has educational and holistic benefits too. Plus they're small, they'll be fine.

No way, they need to be in school as much as they can given how much education and fun they've missed.

@zombieDog21 spot on, you put it so much better than I did!

Nope although they have been doing fuck all 'serious' learning for the last two weeks it has been good for DS mental health - seeing friends, having fun, etc

I'm generally really torn on this.

My dd does have a cold and is quite weezy with it (asthmatic) and whereas I wouldn't normally keep her off with a cold, I have done, as I don't want her to catch covid too and no, I don't want her to pass it onto more vulnerable family members. The home learning is very good at her school though.

On balance, this was the right decision for us. I'm sad she'll miss out on the fun Christmassy stuff, but she's in secondary, so not quite the same.