Lock down

[Nowyouknowto]

Here we go again.how do you all cope.

[The PNP]

Here we go again. how do you all cope.

Personally, I will be getting out on the bike plenty - as we're allowed out for exercise, according to Bojo's little pep-talk tonight. And with (hopefully) most people staying in, traffic should be light, so the roads will be much safer.

[jamyramy]

all over.bring on covid.

[greenmachine]

An absolute nightmare for younger people with school age kids. How are they expected to hold down a job and look after their kids ? Plus further down the road will be a generation of uneducated dummies. Another fiasco regarding exams is on the horizon. Yet again the young are the ones to suffer. I thank god im on my final furlong.

[The PNP]

An absolute nightmare for younger people with school age kids. How are they expected to hold down a job and look after their kids ? Plus further down the road will be a generation of uneducatied dummies. Another fiasco regarding exams is on the horizon. Yet again the young are the ones to suffer. I thank god im on my final furlong.

Agree....But if I were a kid, the whole stay-off-school thing would have been absolutely marvellous. To me, the obligation to constantly attend school was a total pain. I used to cherish every free day, particularly the s-u-p-e-r-l-o-n-g Summer break.

[Hamble]

We are British

[salus.populi]

We are British

That's the problem.

[Ceam]

Been ready for it for months, Anyone that didn't see this coming must be blind.

To many idiots in this country thinking it's one big joke. Sadly one of them is in power and doesn't have a clue. Stumbling from one cockup to the next.

[Ceam]

Agree....But if I were a kid, the whole stay-off-school thing would have been absolutely marvellous. To me, the obligation to constantly attend school was a total pain. I used to cherish every free day, particularly the s-u-p-e-r-l-o-n-g Summer break.

I'm guess if you had kids they would be very far behind when they go back then.

Mine will be up first thing tomorrow doing their school work from home, Same as they did in the last lock down. They don't have to be at school to be educated.

[Ceam]

An absolute nightmare for younger people with school age kids. How are they expected to hold down a job and look after their kids ? Plus further down the road will be a generation of uneducated dummies. Another fiasco regarding exams is on the horizon. Yet again the young are the ones to suffer. I thank god im on my final furlong.

"uneducated dummies" really?

Not the first time and not the last time the 'School' education has been disrupted. I guess parents will have to step up and do some parenting.

[Hamble]

That's the problem.

I feel very lucky to have 'that' problem.

[The PNP]

I'm guess if you had kids they would be very far behind when they go back then.

Mine will be up first thing tomorrow doing their school work from home, Same as they did in the last lock down. They don't have to be at school to be educated.

I admire your dedication to their education. Too many parents, themselves not the best educated, don't appear to have any ambition for their offsprings.

My first consideration for the kids, now middle-aged, was that they were happy. I've always been there to answer questions/help if they were 'stuck'. But never been a slave-driver...Imo, education goes better if you can engage their interest in a subject, rather than force it down unwilling gullets.

I found lessons at school slow and boring, with some notable exceptions. Looking back on what was taught over the ten years I attended, the same knowledge could probably have been dished out in half that time.

[Styx]

We are British

Well said!

Here we go again.how do you all cope.

Well-stocked larder.All shopping now online and delivered.


Thousands of families have lost loved ones in the last 9 months, so a bit of isolation isnt a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

[greenmachine]

"uneducated dummies" really?

Not the first time and not the last time the 'School' education has been disrupted. I guess parents will have to step up and do some parenting.

I expect most will, but if they have to work to put food on the table and a roof over their heads the schools shutting creates extra difficulties they dont need. It will be managable for those who as long as they wake up every day their every need is met.

[Ceam]

I expect most will, but if they have to work to put food on the table and a roof over their heads the schools shutting creates extra difficulties they dont need. It will be managable for those who as long as they wake up every day their every need is met.

What a patronizing post.