Sammy2012 wrote: » Guess it depends as some families are already in the system for other things. But if I wanted to take my child out of school for a 2 week holiday and they missed very little other days I dont see anything wrong with it.
iamwhoiam wrote: » Boards is not a reflection of normal life out there in my opinion . You get very odd opinions on multiple threads that don’t at all reflect the vast majority of people I find
History Queen wrote: » I got a lovely email from one of my third years today thanking me for everything and wishing me a nice summer. Ridiculous really how much it boosted my mood but was lovely to hear from a student that the last few weeks haven't been a complete waste of time.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » That's lovely, nice to be appreciated. I bet you are one of those cool teachers some teachers have a huge impact on students and I think by that age they realise you are also a human and not just a teacher!
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » Well there's plenty of studies available online from public health and infectious disease experts suggesting children spread the virus far less than adults. Far cry from what we were originally led to believe about their superspreader capabilities.
wirelessdude01 wrote: » Most of them have said that they won't. That was reported on prime time a week or two ago.
Shybride2016 wrote: » Is that the scrapped scheme for healthcare workers you’re thinking of? The roadmap states 29th June as reopening crèches for essential workers - so not at full capacity of numbers of kids.
Sammy2012 wrote: » As a teacher I see nothing wrong with taking your child on holidays during the school year. Even if you went for 2 weeks youd only miss 10 days. Plus your child will have lots of memories of it. Children and people learn from experiences so if thats when you want to holiday why not?! I dont know of one person who has ever had their attendance or lack of followed up on since I've started teaching.
Scoondal wrote: » Thank you. My son missed 2 days of school in February 2019. I continued to get communications from his school up to 4 months later. But now they think it is okay to have 50 days off school.
wirelessdude01 wrote: » Time and a place. During June I have no issues at all with it. Id have a huge issue with a parent who takes their child out for holidays and then complains at a later time when their child can't get a concept where the foundations of that concept were put in place during the time of absence.
Scoondal wrote: » Correct. I home schooled my son for 6 weeks. He gave up when I told him that he would not return to school until September. I am no longer doing the job that you are still paid to do. Why should I do your job ? I will educate my son my way. If we want to go abroad in the future, we will go regardless of some made up "school term". I can see a more liberal attitude to education in the near future. I now have the experience of home schooling to know that authoritarian schooling has nothing to offer children.
Scoondal wrote: » Can the Department of Education send me an apologetic note ?
wirelessdude01 wrote: » Not mixing it up. Think it actually could have been CB live that had it. They did some sort of poll of facilities that showed the vast majority wouldn't be opening on the date indicated on the roadmap. Insurance is the main issue I think.
FishOnABike wrote: » Can you point me towards some of these studies? Even our own HIQA report contradicts itself on this. I've read several reports which have been represented as indicating children are less succeptable to or less likely to transmit CoViD-19 but when you read the full report they say no such thing. At best they have said children were less likely to have been the index case in a household or that they have played a less significant role in the spread of CoViD-19 (hardly surprising when they have been stuck at home). I've not read any studies that provide evidence that children are any less (or more) succeptable or infectious than adults. One of the ¹largest studies ( 3712 CoViD-19 positive patients) cautions "The viral loads observed in the present study, combined with earlier findings of similar attack rate between children and adults, suggest that transmission potential in schools and kindergartens should be evaluated using the same assumptions of infectivity as for adults ... Based on the absence of any statistical evidence for a different viral load profile in children found in the present study, we have to caution against an unlimited re-opening of schools and kindergartens in the present situation, with a widely susceptible population and the necessity to keep transmission rates low via non-pharmaceutical interventions. Children may be as infectious as adults. ¹ https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites/m_cc05/virologie-ccm/dateien_upload/Weitere_Dateien/analysis-of-SARS-CoV-2-viral-load-by-patient-age.pdf
Sammy2012 wrote: » I took my kids on hols in January and they missed 2 days of school. Did I feel guilty no! Do they still talk about it..yes! We had a lovely 4 day family trip. I have taken them out other days to enjoy different things and I will continue to do so provided I can get the time off. Once you send a note in explaining their absence there should be no more about it. A day here and there is not going to matter to your childs education.
Scoondal wrote: » Okay. There is a difference in Dept Education between "explained absence" and "unexplained absence". A holiday is registered as "unexplained absence" even if you send a note explaining why Johnny was out of school. So I thought that my son was on holiday for 2 school days so they can put it down as "unexplained". No. They still wanted me to send a note explaining that he was on holidays so that they could register those days off as an unexplained absence. This is what parents have to deal with in their children's schools.
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » Are you OK? :eek:
Treppen wrote: » OK and on full pay
Zahir Bitter Cellist wrote: » Ditto
Treppen wrote: » Really are you a full time teacher too?
History Queen wrote: » For a global pandemic? Also I only roughly totted it up but at second level anyway isn't it 35 school days since schools closed?
