Get the kids back in school now.

My daughter is year 6. She's missed her SATS. Secondary choice already made and arranged and no exams due. School work now (from home is generally creative and persuading writing exercises).

What's the point of sending her to school when there's no critical work to do in the last half term before summer, when there are mad social distancing rules utterly ruining any sports or play time and she'll spend more time lining up and cleaning her hands and desk than doing work. When she knows she could pick up the virus and pass it to her mum, who is classed as vulnerable.

What exactly would she be missing out on?

What would she be missing out on? Are you for real?

You don't think kids going to school is important then?

I'd say the last few weeks of junior school, post exams are the least crucial of all. I remember my time and it consisted of everyone bringing games in. I was the Crossfire champ and had the blisters to prove it. She's been getting and doing school work while at home as well.

So yeah, what exactly would she be missing?

Why don't you volunteer to teach them OP?

The fee paying kids ain't going back

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My daughter is year 6. She's missed her SATS. Secondary choice already made and arranged and no exams due. School work now (from home is generally creative and persuading writing exercises).

What's the point of sending her to school when there's no critical work to do in the last half term before summer, when there are mad social distancing rules utterly ruining any sports or play time and she'll spend more time lining up and cleaning her hands and desk than doing work. When she knows she could pick up the virus and pass it to her mum, who is classed as vulnerable.

What exactly would she be missing out on?

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If her mum is on the extremely vulnerable list then you have to make a choice at some point. Either you and your child stay sheltered with the mother indefinitely or the mother self-isolates alone. No other option. Upto individuals to weigh up the risk for themselves.

I think special circumstances for people on the NHS letter list makes sense especially if the risk is going to be long term.

BUT for everyone else lets get the kids back to school. 14 under 20s have passed away with the virus. Tragic but tiny numbers and not worth stopping all education for. Get the impression people are happy taking the cash for doing nothing and will drag this out as long as possible.

Parents don't have to send kids to school even if schools open up for all children
from 1 june.

Less than half of kids will return, and classrooms will be over full even
with reduced numbers

Government have u turned over fining councils for not opening schools as
that would leave government open to potential manslaughter charge when first
linked deaths happen.

IT - you're right, it is a choice. To send her in now, with kids of doctors and nurses and others present, to basically do no more work/learning than she's doing from home, have zero fun due to social distancing and get emotional scars from the sheer alienness of the situation and being told she's too close to her mates constantly etc just clearly isn't the right thing to do. And as another poster correctly says, it's a policy squarely aimed at the working class, not toffs in private schools who get a free pass till September. So no, the govt can get stuffed on this little experiment thanks.

Come September, and her first term in senior school then we'll make our choice based on the best data available to us in the build up but this is just bordering on pointless.

For what it's worth, we got an email from school in the last half hour. They've formally abandoned this experiment due to very poor take up. From June 1st they will just carry on being a child minding service for key workers for the remaining weeks (and through summer too I think).

You shouldn't under estimate the psychological benefits on being able to throw a lump of plasticine about 5 mornings a week.

Good man Porcupine, fook em.

To be fair, those days of playing Crossfire, Downfall, Operation etc still remain some of my favourite school days. I missed loads of junior school as I was in and out of hospital or in a wheelchair for long stretches and only really got over it properly at the end of 3rd year so I'd always missed out on those happy, pointless days of the last half term. Walking down the road with a game under my arm and looking out for my mates and seeing what they were bringing was just brilliant. Was a lovely little breather before going to seniors and having to learn how to say Caecilius is in the kitchen in a language that had been dead for 2,000 years anyway.

Mine aren't going in either,completely pointless and avoids the vermin government trying to push herd immunity through as well,they must think everyone's stupid,although i suspect a large % will be..let's hope there's no deaths come july/august.

The Unions will not want children to go back school for about 5 years.

May 20, 2020 -- 5:26PM, MrBaboon wrote:

The Unions will not want children to go back school for about 5 years.

Good, a return to the traditional family and liberal PC hellhole schools not having as much power and chance to indoctrinate children.

Away from the nanny state. Towards a state where grown, responsible people take the education of their children into their own hands instead of escaping their responsibility.

PorcupineorPineapple
For what it's worth, we got an email from school in the last half hour. They've formally abandoned this experiment due to very poor take up. From June 1st they will just carry on being a child minding service for key workers for the remaining weeks (and through summer too I think).

When furlough ends or isn't enough, these child minders may well be more sought after.

Will they be allowed to play rounders,.. If they have enough kids of course.

The game of choice in n E England for whole class to get outdoors.