To send my DC to school with Covid?

bippityboppity87 · 2023-12-04T19:34:20+00:00

My DC7 had been unwell for 5 days. Started on Thursday and tested positive on Friday. Only reason we did a test is because we had a spare one hanging around and just wanted to check Was really unwell the first two days, but was fine for school this morning. Just like a heavy cold. No high temperature or anything One of the school mums said I shouldn't have sent him to school due to still being vulnerable people about. I get that, but I thought after day 5 you weren't contagious? She got really funny about it and made me feel like a bad parent and that I shouldn't have sent him. I thought the guidelines were if you feel unwell and have a high temperature you stay at home? But other than that, carry on as normal. He was fine. Was I being unreasonable?

Tinkerbyebye · 04/12/2023 19:35

Is he still testing positive? If so he should not go in

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bippityboppity87 · 04/12/2023 19:37

We only had one test, which we did on Friday

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Thesheerrelief · 04/12/2023 19:37

I would have kept them at home today, for the fifth day and tested in the morning. I do keep mine off for a day or two if a cold is particularly heavy as they are full of fluid and spluttering everywhere at that stage.

Wherethewildthymeblows · 04/12/2023 19:38

Well by your own reckoning he is not past day 5. Today is day 5.

But does that mean he shouldn't go to school? I don't know (my children are adults) but I suspect I might have sent my child if they were bright and alert, and assuming no temperature or sickness.

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bippityboppity87 · 04/12/2023 19:38

He wasn't coughing or anything, just a blocked nose

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thedamnseason · 04/12/2023 19:40

I wouldn't have done.

I know you can go about your life with Covid but it doesn't mean you should.

I think it's fundamentally selfish.

MrsKeats · 04/12/2023 19:41

The selfishness of some people.

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bippityboppity87 · 04/12/2023 19:41

Ah ok that's fair enough, the guidelines confuse me just now, I just didn't know what to do

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Hbh17 · 04/12/2023 19:41

Well, first of all, stop testing. Secondly, if you insist on testing, then stop telling random people. Thirdly, just send them to school - there is no reason not to, and children have already missed far too much education.

Faz469 · 04/12/2023 19:41

If you test negative on day 5, you can return to normal on day 6. If you still test positive, you should wait till day 7 to return to normal activities.

eduwot · 04/12/2023 19:42

I'm sure lots of people will think this is completely fine, but as someone who has a family member who is extremely vulnerable, it really pisses me off. I get the world seems to have moved on, but it hasn't for us.

AnnoyedByAlfieBear · 04/12/2023 19:43

I thought children only isolated for 3 days?

Createausername1970 · 04/12/2023 19:43

Unless I have misunderstood, testing positive for COVID doesn't automatically mean an adult can't go into work? If you feel well enough to go in, then you should. So I guess it's the same for a child.

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bippityboppity87 · 04/12/2023 19:43

eduwot · 04/12/2023 19:42

I'm sure lots of people will think this is completely fine, but as someone who has a family member who is extremely vulnerable, it really pisses me off. I get the world seems to have moved on, but it hasn't for us.

I'm classed as vulnerable too. Had my flu and covid jab early, so I get where you're coming from

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bippityboppity87 · 04/12/2023 19:44

Createausername1970 · 04/12/2023 19:43

Unless I have misunderstood, testing positive for COVID doesn't automatically mean an adult can't go into work? If you feel well enough to go in, then you should. So I guess it's the same for a child.

This is what I thought

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Ibizabar · 04/12/2023 19:45

If they were well enough to go to school then you did right.

lkwhjis · 04/12/2023 19:45

Careful OP, the Covid zealots are attracted to threads like these like it’s 2020. The type who are having withdrawal symptoms because Covid restrictions no longer exist.

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bippityboppity87 · 04/12/2023 19:46

Hbh17 · 04/12/2023 19:41

Well, first of all, stop testing. Secondly, if you insist on testing, then stop telling random people. Thirdly, just send them to school - there is no reason not to, and children have already missed far too much education.

I know I shouldn't have told them, I blurted it out as they were supposed to go to soft play, but her DP who was picking their DC up is poorly too, so postponed it, and I said probably for the best, as my DC tested positive for covid on Friday and still a little bit sniffly

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Ibizabar · 04/12/2023 19:47

thedamnseason · 04/12/2023 19:40

I wouldn't have done.

I know you can go about your life with Covid but it doesn't mean you should.

I think it's fundamentally selfish.

Really? Are you going to pay other peoples bills then?

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bippityboppity87 · 04/12/2023 19:47

lkwhjis · 04/12/2023 19:45

Careful OP, the Covid zealots are attracted to threads like these like it’s 2020. The type who are having withdrawal symptoms because Covid restrictions no longer exist.

Yeah I knew this would be risky

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Emiliasmummy · 04/12/2023 19:47

Isn't the guidance for under 18s isolate for 3 days if you have a positive test. Stay off longer if Ill otherwise carry on after the 3 days.

Thegoodbadandugly · 04/12/2023 19:48

What I don't understand is why you are testing when the only symptom is a blocked nose, it's winter there's lots of bugs flying around. But yes it's selfish to send children in when they have COVID as others may have vulnerable parents or siblings

thedamnseason · 04/12/2023 19:48

@bippityboppity87 so you're classed as vulnerable but you still thought it was ok to send your child to school and potentially expose other vulnerable people to Covid?

Would you be pissed off if someone knowingly gave you Covid?

Also, you don't have to be clinically vulnerable to be floored by Covid. This strain is causing havoc in my workplace.

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bippityboppity87 · 04/12/2023 19:49

Thegoodbadandugly · 04/12/2023 19:48

What I don't understand is why you are testing when the only symptom is a blocked nose, it's winter there's lots of bugs flying around. But yes it's selfish to send children in when they have COVID as others may have vulnerable parents or siblings

He was really poorly the first few days. Now he only has a blocked nose

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PersonWithInternalGonads · 04/12/2023 19:49

I asked DC's school this recently, and they clarified that since not everyone is testing anyway they don't know who has it and who doesn't, and even if someone does, they have no power to ask them not to come in. And if my DC was well, then I needed to send them in, positive or not.