Friday 5 June 2020

To send or not to send them back to school?

It was announced that kids is reception, year 1 and year 6 will go back to school this week.

Our school was meant to reopen on Tuesday but there were not ready so they are opening next week. Mahi doesn't fall in the year groups but Lucky is. Her start date is 22.6.2020 with half of the year group in the class for a week only.  I have come to the conclusion, as the situation stands, not to see Lucky in.

With the lockdown eased off now, I'm worried about a second wave especially with the number of deaths still so high compared to the rest of Europe. I also don't know how they are going to teach social distancing with reception and year 1. It is Lucky's last year in primary school and she is desperate to see her teachers and friends but for just a week and half of her class, is this worth it? They definetely won't be learning anything but it'll do good for Lucky to get out and see her friends. The other thing will be that drop in times will be 10am which is inconvenient for us to drop her.

I'm still in 2 minds. I'll see how the situation gets in 3 weeks time and decide. She won't get a graduation, activity week and trips or a final year party and this is not the way I wanted her to finish her primary school. Given the circumstances, will letting her go even for a week to say goodbye, be bad?

Confusion all around.

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