If schools reopen, will you send your children? (Informal poll)

[Anonymous]

Yes, DD is going into K. My decision is data driven. 9 kids in the entire US have died of covid. That is 0.02 percent of the diagnosed cases in children 0-18. The flu kills 600-800 kids a year. I am curiuos and concerned as to how they will clean her school. I am also concerned that parents won't be vigilant in keeping sick kids home. That is out of my control, but I will always do my part and not send a sick kid to school.

[Anonymous]

Yes. We are planning on sending our kids if school reopen in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, assuming school will be some semblance of normal & kids will actually get recess. Otherwise, we might just homeschool.

+1 The social interactions are key to my child’s development. The academic stuff is easy to homeschool in a couple of hours a day max. We may be looking into homeschool coops.

Full of anti-science people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, DD is going into K. My decision is data driven. 9 kids in the entire US have died of covid. That is 0.02 percent of the diagnosed cases in children 0-18. The flu kills 600-800 kids a year. I am curiuos and concerned as to how they will clean her school. I am also concerned that parents won't be vigilant in keeping sick kids home. That is out of my control, but I will always do my part and not send a sick kid to school.

I’m in the same boat. My son will be in 1st grade at a K-4 school so it is pretty small. What I would love to see is all parents taking their kids temperature ( 3 seconds with the thermal unit) before heading off to school. I trust that the school will be diligent but we need all of the parents protecting all of our children.

[Anonymous]

If my job wasn't an issue I would be looking at homeschool coops right now. Having a small contained group of families that you can control how the learning is done seems ideal. Unfortunately both parents work full time so I don't think this possible for us. But, seriously considering if we could each go down to 80% and have days at home that we could swap with other families.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If cases are way down by then I would let him go as normal. But if local cases start to rise or there are outbreaks at nearby schools, I'd probably pull him until things died down. Though I'd guess the schools would close at that point anyway. If conditions are the same as they are right now, I probably would not send. There is still a lot of community transmission throughout this area and enclosed indoor spaces seem to be breeding grounds.

+1
This is where we are on the issue right now. Having kids all inside on top of one another (for how do you really keep kids from interacting physically?) sounds like a really bad plan. I'd really like them to resume classes but maybe outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No we won’t be sending our kids to school. Too many crazies taking too many risks and then send their infected kids to school. Do you even know how many parents send sick kids to school during a regular year? They dose them up n Tylenol and send them in. It’s ridiculous. We will manage our schedules somehow to ensure that they stay home until it’s safe.

This x 1000
Ask any school clinic aide or nurse how many times kids come in to see them with fevers, 4+ hours after the start of the school day. Ask me how I know.
People need to work so they need to send their kids to school so they will try to hide any fever with Tylenol. Oldest trick in the book but one that can be deadly to so many now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No we won’t be sending our kids to school. Too many crazies taking too many risks and then send their infected kids to school. Do you even know how many parents send sick kids to school during a regular year? They dose them up n Tylenol and send them in. It’s ridiculous. We will manage our schedules somehow to ensure that they stay home until it’s safe.

This x 1000
Ask any school clinic aide or nurse how many times kids come in to see them with fevers, 4+ hours after the start of the school day. Ask me how I know.
People need to work so they need to send their kids to school so they will try to hide any fever with Tylenol. Oldest trick in the book but one that can be deadly to so many now.

Yep.

[Anonymous]

For those that have healthy kids and don't want them returning to exposure in normal classroom setting, what do you believe is their actual risk of fatality or MIS-C?
1 in 1000? 1 in 100,000? 1 in 10,000,000? Do you know? How do you make major life decisions without dispassionately evaluating that risk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those that have healthy kids and don't want them returning to exposure in normal classroom setting, what do you believe is their actual risk of fatality or MIS-C?
1 in 1000? 1 in 100,000? 1 in 10,000,000? Do you know? How do you make major life decisions without dispassionately evaluating that risk?

I'm a teacher and parent. I'm not particularly concerned my child will get sick but I am worried about myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No we won’t be sending our kids to school. Too many crazies taking too many risks and then send their infected kids to school. Do you even know how many parents send sick kids to school during a regular year? They dose them up n Tylenol and send them in. It’s ridiculous. We will manage our schedules somehow to ensure that they stay home until it’s safe.

This x 1000
Ask any school clinic aide or nurse how many times kids come in to see them with fevers, 4+ hours after the start of the school day. Ask me how I know.
People need to work so they need to send their kids to school so they will try to hide any fever with Tylenol. Oldest trick in the book but one that can be deadly to so many now.

Yep.

This is why a dual system is the only system that will work. Online learning should be available for those afraid, and doors should open for everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those that have healthy kids and don't want them returning to exposure in normal classroom setting, what do you believe is their actual risk of fatality or MIS-C?
1 in 1000? 1 in 100,000? 1 in 10,000,000? Do you know? How do you make major life decisions without dispassionately evaluating that risk?

I'm a teacher and parent. I'm not particularly concerned my child will get sick but I am worried about myself.

The only way that makes any sense is if you think your only risk of catching it is from other adults in the school building. Otherwise I’m totally confused. If you think kids can’t catch it then why would you be at risk at school? If you think kids can catch it (won’t get that sick) but can transmit it then why wouldn’t you be at risk of catching it from your own kid who will be at school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those that have healthy kids and don't want them returning to exposure in normal classroom setting, what do you believe is their actual risk of fatality or MIS-C?
1 in 1000? 1 in 100,000? 1 in 10,000,000? Do you know? How do you make major life decisions without dispassionately evaluating that risk?

It’s not necessarily the kids, but it means we can’t see our other family - like local grandparents - at all while school is in session, I think? I’m not sure. Honestly I don’t know what we will do. We feel very confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those that have healthy kids and don't want them returning to exposure in normal classroom setting, what do you believe is their actual risk of fatality or MIS-C?
1 in 1000? 1 in 100,000? 1 in 10,000,000? Do you know? How do you make major life decisions without dispassionately evaluating that risk?

I'm not one of those people, i really want my kindergartener to go to school in the fall, but i am hesitant to send my kids back to day care at this point because the actual risk is such a question mark. This is all such new info.