School closed until September.

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That’s it for us. Everything was normal Thursday morning. It all started to go pear shaped Thursday afternoon. Friday the school was half closed. We were told earlier today that after a sudden flood of confirmed covid cases, the school is now closing fully. We won’t be reopening until September

@Abraxan

This isn't the guidance schools have been sent iirr, We have been told we only close, with PHE via LEA advice, when an LFT has been confirmed with a PCR.

It certainly wouldn't close a whole school at any of our local schools.
If it did it wouldn't be until the end of term either - it would be for 1-2 days max until a negative pcr was returned.

I didn't realise other authorities were closing on the say if an LFT as that has never been the advice our school has received.

The positive lateral flows all appear to have been followed by a positive PCR in our two schools so maybe just preemptive as there are a lot of cases in the schools. I know another two local highs are doing the same as my friends kids were told to isolate then it was cancelled when a negative PCR came back.

A positive LFT does close classes here but if the follow up PCR is negative you get to return the next day

@GenericUsername404

It’s absolute insanity. If the NHS is no longer at breaking point (from COVID, not just deliberate underfunding), the vulnerable are double vaccinated and children only suffer mild symptoms who are we doing this for? At what point will everyone just stop obeying this absolute nonsense?

This ... The kids have suffered enough. The hospitals aren't overun. We will never stop infections entirely.