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10/10 Aepgirl

I text my ex SIL last night in reply to his text to say that we cannot have my two granddaughters. His text back said OK. We're both late 60's and I've had one chest infection after another. We just cannot do it, yet I feel so guilty and sad.

Sorry meant to write dd not Dennis!

I thought not looking after your grandchildren only applied to the over 70s or those with underlying health problems? We are in our late 60s and planning to help with our two as Denis a single mum

Whatever can be done to halt this dreadful virus, must be done. I do wish people would stop whingeing about decisions that are being made - this is an unprecedented situation and EVERYBODY needs to do their part, whether we like it or not.

That was below the belt, growstuff and not becoming of a teacher. What did I say that you have put me in the corner with 100 lines?
I have said nothing about your bleating over your lack of income in 4 posts now. My nephew inherited the money recently, it was a lifesaver because his wife is very sick and cannot work or look after the children. Please don't comment on peoples' lifestyle choices or career choices.

Dear whywhywhy
Your SIL has obviously not heard the PM’s instructions in full. He said quite clearly that grandparents were NOT to be used for child care.
If you get it your chances of getting through it are minimal - then they’ll be without childcare forever!
I’m hoping that this situation will actually make the younger generation value their free child care grandparents a bit more. I didn’t have my parents looking after my kids when I was their age. They are all very lucky.I know they say it’s necessary to earn a living, but the luxury lifestyle a lot of them live are not really necessary. (Not all I know).

Here (Denmark) the general rule is that children under school age can still go to kindergarten etc. if their parents are doctors, nurses or police.

All other parents have to make arrangements to look after their children themselves, or get a friend or relative to do so in the home.

Secondary schools are sending digital lessons via Facebook to be done at home and sent in.

Parents of younger children have been asked to set their children lessons in the children's school books, all of which have been sent home with the children.

The duration is until the 13th April, but the number of cases of corona will determine whether it is extended.

All cinemas, theatres, concert halls etc have been closed and meetings of more than 10 people at a time are illegal until further notice.

The other day there was a huge petition from parents wanting schools to be closed now everyone is moaning because they are. It's not the government's fault it's the virus that is causing this problem. People always want someone to blame!!!

I got the feeling that the idea that providing free childcare is the reason for partial closure, which I can sympathise with, as my situation will be similar (but without the pay)

I'm not griping. I chose to work zero hours contract because of my childcare difficulties, but I also feel i'll be expected to put my own needs on the backburner.

What infuriates me is the cavalier way in which these extraordinary and ill thought-through measures have been thrown at the nation, with scant reference to those most concerned - the pupils themselves.

The announcement makes it clear that children only matter if their parents are 'key workers', who are not defined.

Refusing to give any reassuring hint of when things might end must be unsettling not to say frightening for younger children - really turns their world upside down.

And then to announce the cancellation of A level and GCSE exams without explaining the alternative arrangements are rubbishes young people who've working their socks off for 2 years and have the carpet whipped away from under their feet at the last minute. Wholly demoralising for them.

Throughout Feb we were constantly assured that the Govt was well-prepared for the crisis and plans were well advanced for all eventualities. If this is their idea of being well prepared I wouldn't like to see them taken. by surprise..

Maybe your nephew should have trained to be a teacher, rather than relying on rental income Ellianne.

My son, who is at uni, is not expecting a fees rebate on his tuition, but has signed a contract on his accommodation, which he will have to pay for, although he won't use it.

What happened to the Blitz spirit? Millions of people are going to be affected, one way or the other.

The schools have been shut to help slow down the rate of infection. NOT to give the teachers an extra paid break!!
Can’t believe some of the comments being written on this thread.

I've just heard that teachers at local schools will be expected to turn up, unless they're self-isolating. They will be expected to supervise the pupils who will still be attending school (including their own) and providing video conferencing and other activities, delivered online. They also need to write curriculum plans and do assessments.

There is a pandemic in progress which is why Government is having to take all the measures it can, difficult and unpopular though they may be in the short term, to protect people's health, and ultimately their lives.

Of course teachers will work, albeit remotely, during the enforced period but they must be feeling relieved (smug) that their salaries are protected. Our nephew, however, owns a student house and will now get no rent, £1,800 a month, next term and maybe beyond. He can't just sell the place overnight and has bills to pay on the property. So yes there may be a bit of animosity towards those educators who are very more fortunate.

Try to open and you're damned. Close and you're damned. Teachers can never win

The email I've had from the school this morning seems to suggest that the headteacher is less than happy about partial closure.

He has said it raises more issues than it solves, and they are waiting on further guidance as to how it will work, and which parents will be deemed as front line.

I would’ve been happy if (like his sisters in another school) he had been told not to come in today.

It's not suspected by the way the government said not until September

gillybob so would you be happy with your DGS sitting in a hall with 50+ other children watching videos because there aren't enough staff in the school to do anything else? And this has happened 3 classes put together so actually 90 children.

If someone wakes at 7am with a cough, debates if they should go into school, decides they can't, phones head at 7.30am who is then at home. Head in school at 8am has to work out how many staff will be there and if school can open. By then its not possible to message everyone. If you message some others get really upset.

No eazybee and still nothing on theirs or the LA website either .

I don’t think the schools needed to close trisher . By doing so they have solved one problem (or have they?) and caused many more . Listening to the so called experts gives me no confidence that this was the right thing to do.

If, as my oldest GDD suspects (she overheard a conversation between staff members) the schools stay closed until September then there will be very few parents with jobs to go back to . Other than the teachers themselves that is .

No text, email alerts from the school to the parents?