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Are you still sending your kids to school?

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hollygoflightly · 15/12/2021 19:41

My primary school kids have got two more days of school. It's a lovely, fun time of year, but realistically they're not going to be learning much between now and Friday afternoon. Staff and pupils are starting to drop like flies. I'm in two minds whether to send them in or keep them home and try and save Christmas! Obviously if they already have covid then we're screwed, but we would still get a bit of a new year...anyone else feeling similar?

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TurquoiseDress · 16/12/2021 01:41

Yes mine will be going in til end of term on Friday

Personal choice and all that but what's the point in pulling them out, unless you want to self isolate a bit before catching a flight or similar

Cameleongirl · 16/12/2021 01:47

I was planning to until they break up on Friday, but I received a text from DS's school this evening saying there was an outbreak in the year above him so all classes will be online on Thursday and Friday. Luckily his school has everything well set up for online learning so he's not going to miss much...although he's sad to miss the class party and film on Friday afternoon.

INeedNewShoes · 16/12/2021 01:52

I'm struggling to make this decision.

DD was off today anyway as she had a temperature last night so we went for a PCR this morning. I've just received a negative result for her.

I'm having surgery next week which I really don't want to be postponed (although it certainly isn't life or death) so I'd like to keep DD off school for the rest of the week to reduce the risk of Covid getting in the way. However, she's had a rocky time settling into reception and things were just starting to improve which I would have liked to have consolidated a bit more before the holidays!

Spikeyball · 16/12/2021 06:45

Ds is going in. Even if schools did shut in January he would still be in as a vulnerable pupil and so since we are not seeing anyone over Christmas it would be pointless pulling him out now.

Beakerandbungle · 16/12/2021 06:49

I ummed and aged about this last night - it’s rampant in DC school atm (1/2 teachers off). I decided to send them in as I guess want to keep things as normal as possible - mainly because my youngest in particular became very anxious about covid during last year and I don’t want that fear to come back.

It’s just me and them for Christmas though so if we get it it would just be one of those bad luck things like getting any illness at Xmas ( although I will be gutted to miss some of the pre Christmas things!).

MrsHamlet · 16/12/2021 06:53

@Imdreamingofapeacefulxmas

Teacher's are stuck on the front line (along with many other workers) and I'm sure they appreciate parents keeping some of dc back.

Actually no. I'd quite like all my students to be in so that I don't have to try to catch them up later.

DoubleDeckerSwimmer · 16/12/2021 07:21

@Imdreamingofapeacefulxmas

Teacher's are stuck on the front line (along with many other workers) and I'm sure they appreciate parents keeping some of dc back.

Do you know how much work it is catching kids up when they come back?

All on or all out, fine. Dribbling in and out, very tough. Most subjects / projects work in a consecutive manner so you have to repeat steps with some, while supporting the others who have been in, etc.

Of course, it happens when children are genuinely sick. I also understand that these are unprecedented times and people are making tough decisions. But please don't think you are making a teacher's job any easier!

Rockbird · 16/12/2021 07:54

I'm keeping my yr5 off now. Yesterday was the last straw, her class is riddled with it, teacher is off and half the kids.

itwasntaparty · 16/12/2021 07:55

4 classes out of 7 at dcs primary have been fully remote since Friday because of omicron cases. Dts class has ten kids in - the rest have also tested positive, or the parents have said they have to keep them out. The kids at home are online.

They finish tomorrow so there doesn't seem much point in taking mine out for a day.

PippaPoppy · 16/12/2021 08:30

Half my daughter’s class is off with Covid. We received a letter last night to say they’re isolating her class from the rest of the school for the next two days to contain the outbreak. We’ve decided to keep her home. She was really looking forward to all the festivities planned for today, the whole school is having Christmas dinner together with games and Santa etc.. It would just upset her knowing what was going on while she is sitting with the rest of her peers in their classroom.

Silversun83 · 16/12/2021 10:40

@Tahaniisfine

Mine are due in till next Thursday but I don’t think we’ll last till then. They’d be as happy at home as school if anything they were always happier at home so it makes the decision hard for me in opposite ways to others.

All children are different.

Although I do worry about families that say their children need school for normality…8 mean what?! My friend is being investigated by Ss for home schooling her child hit parents who literally say my child is not happy at home get a pass.

Tbh, I worry more about those who say their children don't miss school.

Do they not miss their friends, the learning? Children need structure and routine, socialisation.

And particularly for those children whose parents have to work full time, days upon days of sitting by themselves at a laptop or TV is really not good for them.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 16/12/2021 11:11

Maybe would consider it if I was a SAHM and could do stuff with them

I’m not keeping ds 7 at home to stare at a tablet all day!

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 16/12/2021 11:12

Tbh, I worry more about those who say their children don't miss school.

^^
Me too!

JaninesEyePatch · 16/12/2021 11:29

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing

Tbh, I worry more about those who say their children don't miss school.

^^
Me too!

Why?

A lot of kids hate school just like a lot of adults hate their work.

FanFckingTastic · 16/12/2021 11:58

It's a very personal decision - my view is that there is no 'right or 'wrong' just what's right for you, your family and your circumstances.

I've not sent my DD in to school today and she won't go in for the half day tomorrow. 8 cases in her class alone now and my OH is vulnerable so it's too much of a risk. She's sad to not be in with her friends but I think that she'd be more sad to have her Dad unwell or to not see her grandparents on Christmas day.

INeedNewShoes · 16/12/2021 12:09

And particularly for those children whose parents have to work full time, days upon days of sitting by themselves at a laptop or TV is really not good for them.

This doesn't apply to everyone. The teenagers I know who are at home are studying and it won't all be laptop based. With the potential of mocks being used for GCSE and A level results they're applying themselves now as if it were the real thing.

I have my reception-age child at home with me (unwell) and I have a work deadline. The TV babysitter will be deployed today but only for about an hour after lunch. She's entertaining herself with toys/books/making a zillion cardboard Christmas trees (and a lot of mess but that's a fair price to pay!).

She won't go in tomorrow as I feel the risk is too great to outweigh the benefit of one day in when she'll have been off for two anyway.

Chakraleaf · 17/12/2021 15:03

My son is so Nervous he won't get to go back.

Ifartglitterybaubles · 18/12/2021 13:26

As I posted I pulled my 3 out on Wednesday so we could isolate for 10 days as my terminally ill FIL was coming to us for Christmas, we'll that's off now, DH has tested positive on a LFT this morning. Great. I guess the good thing is the DC are still negative today so hey won't have spread anything in school whilst they were there.

Ifartglitterybaubles · 18/12/2021 13:26

They*

INeedNewShoes · 18/12/2021 13:41

@Ifartglitterybaubles

Oh no. I’m so sorry. Don’t know what else to say but sending sympathy in your direction.

Covid How we wish it would just fuck off!

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