School return for under 10s

With growing evidence that under 10s don’t have the receptors to catch the virus and there being doubts about evidence of any under 10 actually passing the virus on to anyone.
People need to go back to work and to do that they need schooling available and given the low risk with under 10s. Surely sensible to start here

Why the contribution is important

The economy is going to cause more pain and deaths than Coronavirus but they won’t be badged and be the first news story every night, drug deaths will be up, deaths because people aren’t acting seeing their GP; none of this being recorded or monitored, we should release what we can with strict social distancing.

by Watty1544 on May 05, 2020 at 03:46PM

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  • Posted by Laura89 May 06, 2020 at 01:58

    Its not concrete evidence,we shouldnt risk life without it.

  • Posted by Mysay7 May 06, 2020 at 12:25

    I would be concerned about schools re-opening with ‘social distancing’ measures in place, even if children were proven to be less at risk (which we cannot be sure of yet). Even if asymptotic themselves, children could become our ‘super spreaders’ and therefore pose threat to the progress we’ve made as a result of lockdown.
    It simply would not be safe and a ‘safe enough’ arrangement that places responsibility on children (especially nursery and primary aged) and their teachers, is not ok.

    No-one wants their children to be at risk or to pose transmission danger to their household upon return and defeat all the stringent measures you’ve taken as a household to prevent the infection. Let’s be realistic, each households capability and or commitment to be as stringent
    will vary and it just takes one weak link for the chain of prevention to break, making all the sacrifice of ‘lockdown’ to date completely worthless.

    Let’s instead, find ways to harness what’s working for children in many of their homes (nurture, informal learning, access to learning resources, online link to their teachers and an offering of ‘formal’ classwork).

    For many, being at home instead of at school will be an enriching ‘wider- learning’ experience that will help consolidate and enhance their overall learning and life skills, which will contribute to their achievement when they return to school when it’s safe to. It also affords parents a greater opportunity for real and active participation in their child’s learning.

    We do however need to remember that not all households will be safe, not all will have resources, will not all have equal capacity and without investment and appropriate support, children in these households will suffer during school closures. We need to find a resolve that meets their needs too. I personally don’t think that the resolve to that is to have vulnerable children go to school (and be exposed to the very risk I wouldn’t wish my own children to be exposed to)- that also exposes them as ‘vulnerable’ and imposes stigma. Instead, it would require ensuring access to technology, physical resources, discreet enhanced virtual (possibly multidisciplinary) contact that is really attuned, supportive and tailored to the needs of the children and other family members in that household. Supportive, but respectful safeguarding measures, etc.

    Let’s translate what works during this lockdown into creating our new ‘normal’ going forward and not rush to go back to the old ‘normal’.

    At the very least, let’s offer parents and teachers choice about returning to school before there’s a vaccine/ minimal risk rather than taking a decision which makes it compuls
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