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Listen mate I hope I am overreacting.

It's my job as the Father to my kids to keep them as safe as possible, if that means keeping them off school for a month and paying a fine so be it.
Surely it would make more sense to brick the windows and torch the school tonight - that way you escape the eighty quid fine and any traces of the virus in the school will be destroyed
 
Listen mate I hope I am overreacting.

It's my job as the Father to my kids to keep them as safe as possible, if that means keeping them off school for a month and paying a fine so be it.

Mate they are indeed your kids and its your call so apologies for the stupidity comment.

That said i honestly do not agree with your course of action on this.
 
I’d be surprised if anyone is prosecuted for taking their kids out of school from next week onwards. Can’t see it being in the public interest.

That said, nothing genuinely surprises me these days so probably best not to listen to me!
Unfortunately its a bit like a parking fine, administered by the Council, so common sense can be sadly lacking
 
Is there any sensible reasoning to say that pretty much the whole world won’t face the same levels of infection that China, and now are Italy, are suffering from?
viruses has no boarders to respect so IMO there is no reason to expect it any different but on the other hand we have all seen mouldy green dotted bread, now lets pretend that bread is the earth and the green is the virus, all the bread does not go green at the same time it seems to concentrate on certain parts so if you get my drift it may be the same here
 
Is it out of concern for them getting the virus or for concern to whom they may pass it on to?

Bit of both but we have just had a close family member diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.....would have thought it will prove deadly should they contract the virus.
 
Unfortunately its a bit like a parking fine, administered by the Council, so common sense can be sadly lacking
Just looked it up; Section 444 1B of the Education Act 1996 states:
It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (1A) to prove that he had a reasonable justification for his failure to cause the child to attend regularly at the school

1A being the offence of a child of compulsory school age, who is a registered pupil at a school, failing to attend regularly at the school, and the parent is aware of this.

Hard to see how most parents couldn't construct a worthwhile reasonable justification defence, given what's presently going on in Italy. Having elderly relatives would have to be a reasonable justification consideration, surely.

So yes, no accounting for common sense, but hard to see this sticking in most instances.
 
Listen mate I hope I am overreacting.

It's my job as the Father to my kids to keep them as safe as possible, if that means keeping them off school for a month and paying a fine so be it.
With all this nonsense about how safe or dangerous it is, it's easy to be alarmed . However for children it genuinely does appear actually to be milder than flu. Unless a child has a quite severe coexisting illness every indication is that they will be absolutely fine.
 
Just read in the paper that some Councils are considering stopping refuse collection!!!

I’d love to know on what basic science/health principles they have based that on whilst insisting public buildings, including schools, remain open?
 
With all this nonsense about how safe or dangerous it is, it's easy to be alarmed . However for children it genuinely does appear actually to be milder than flu. Unless a child has a quite severe coexisting illness every indication is that they will be absolutely fine.
no, for the child to be in school it has to be 100% certain for a parent that the child will be fine in the event of contamination even at 99.9% is not good enough, it has to be the parents decision and theirs only, the local council should have no imput on this whatsoever, family units could have grand parent living at home or other set ups, any parent will know when the time is right to pull them out,IMO go ahead and do it
 
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