If schools reopen, will you send your children? (Informal poll)
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Anonymous
+++ My husband is also over 50 with asthma and HBP, so I'm nervous for us, in addition to caring about spreading it to other people in our community (mostly poor and working class people of color). |
Anonymous
| Yes. I have to work. They need educated. There’s no question in my situation. |
Anonymous
| Yes, we would. |
Anonymous
| Yes, I would. I have 3 kids and my youngest has already tested positive and did not give it to anyone else in the family. Pediatrician thinks that young kids have very low viral loads and are not very contagious... so yes, I would take the risk |
Anonymous
+1 Same. I want very much for my rising 5th grader to back to her school (and she is missing it terribly), but who knows what the fall will look like. I'm as eager to get back to life as everyone else, but have a feeling that rushing it, especially with summer tourism bringing a bunch of road trip vacationers into town in a few weeks, is going to set the scene for another surge. |
Anonymous
| Yes. |
Anonymous
| It depends on what safety measures schools put in place. Also depends on what the experts I trust recommend. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
| ABSOLUTELY |
Anonymous
And how will you determine when that is? |
Anonymous
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At least now I'm not afraid of my child getting shot at school.
Wait, should I still be afraid of that? |
Anonymous
| Yes. |
Anonymous
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I am usually a very decisive person but I am just so torn.
Rising 7th grader. Mild congenital heart defects. Really loving being at home (though we are currently doing very little schooling) Actually as I type this out I think that my answer is no and I’ve just been feeling anxious about that |
Anonymous
| I don’t feel it’s safe at the moment, and I can’t imagine what will change in a couple months... especially as restrictions are loosening over the summer. It sucks, so much. Tomorrow is the last day of school for mine - 5th, 1st, preschool. I really hate this for them. However, 1st grader has a tiny airway & asthma and was hospitalized with RSV this past December and then all 3 (plus me) got flu A the first week of March. I have genetically hbp (since early 20s), DH has asthma... if it were to hit our family right now, 3 of us could easily end up very sick and possibly hospitalized. We’ve been overly cautious and are watching to see how things unfold over the next few months. I know we can’t hunker down forever, though. |
Anonymous
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I'll definitely send my upper ES kid, though I imagine it will be part time in person and part time remote. Remote is working well for him, so I'm fine with that.
I'm torn on the toddler. What's the point of paying out the nose for daycare when she'll never be able to go, given the likelihood that kids are excluded for any sort of runny nose? |