Parents take kids out of school early to avoid Pingdemic and cancel summer holiday
This means a staggering two million Brits are now thought to be stuck at home.are not available in some areas.
Despite many months of sudden isolations and disrupted learning, parents are unwilling to cancel holidays just because their child was in the same "bubble" as another pupil who had tested positive, the Mail on Sunday reports. Of the 830,000 kids who were at home last week, 750,000 – almost a tenth of all schoolchildren – were isolating after coming into contact with a Covid case.James Bowen, director of policy at the National Association of Head Teachers, said: "We are picking up on reports of parents saying they will keep their child off school to avoid being asked to self-isolate during the school holidays.
Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it was "concerned" about term ending prematurely for some pupils. He added: "We are not casting blame on parents, because we understand the importance of holidays after such a torrid year.One mum from Wales said that she is not taking the risk of her kids catching Covid in the classroom after "several classes in my kids' school have confirmed cases."Another said that as school lessons begin to "wind down," she is "not feeling guilty about them losing out on anything" by keeping her children at home.
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