Child got covid, what is the current guidance on sending into school?

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I won't send DS in while he's unwell, but what's the current guidance on sending into school after testing positive (if he improves within a couple of days)?

Are you hoping someone will google it for you?

3 days off. Back on day 4 if feeling OK. My school at least.

Oh gosh, I wish MN had a like button...

Snigger.

I think the unofficial policy is send them in as soon as you think you can get away with it. Which is basically when they stop showing obvious symptoms.

I'm sure if you look on the school website you'll find an answer. Probably on the home page in big letters.

Agree with tiredanddangerous.
Your dc's school should have covid policy on their website. Mine does.

thanks everyone, I did already check the school website and it's nowhere to be found but thanks for the sarcasm! I was wondering what the general consensus was.

You would be best checking with the school. The last I heard our school is still doing day 5 test to release.

Our school are asking that children are kept at home if they're unwell and if parents/guardians know it's covid, then five days off.

Three days is the guidance, but the guidance also states that children shouldn’t be tested unless requested by a doctor.

I, personally, wouldn’t be sending my child back until they had a negative lft

I'd want to know my dcs school rule rather than the consensus of randoms

Is there a reason that you cant contact the school tomorrow to find out?

Is it not supposed to be 5 days for adults and 3 days for children

At our small rural school the policy seems don't test don't tell - as long as your child is well enough to be in and doesn't have a fever it's expected that they are in. All the teachers and support staff are under the age of 45 and covid has done multiple rounds over the last 2 years.

I get the impression there's a small but hard-core group of parents who are regular testers who keep mucking it up for the rest of us but other than them everyone else is treating it like any other illness.

@IcedOatLatte where did I say I wouldn't be contacting the school tomorrow? Bit of an assumption there. Of course I will be doing so, but they are closed today and I wanted to know today what other schools are doing in general.

what is it with MN. People make so many judgements and assumptions from a short post asking quick info. Thanks to everyone who has been helpful though.

I really doubt that. I am a TA, 2 of my own kids are currently taking their GCSEs, another is CEV.
If people are knowingly sending in their COVID positive children, or deliberately avoiding testing so they can send them in, I would be absolutely livid - I could pass it on to my own family.

People are shitty when it come to covid OP,because they read Facebook and all that imported “freedumbs” nonsense from America (where vaccinations are still low and covid is still rife)

I would just do what you feel comfortable with. I personally wouldn’t send DC into school without a neg LFT, (they sell them in my local shop for £2) as his class teacher is pregnant. Our school also doesn’t have a “policy” as such, they have asked parents to not send ill children in as standard and will support what the family wants to do

Ps we are a small rural school also and the whole faculty are under 45, even the head. Hence the pregnancy situation and nobody is fucking things up for anyone cos there isn’t any way to fuck anything up as class bubbles aren’t a thing and if your child is off school, well it only impacts your child.

if you send your child to school with covid and it spreads around making all the kids sick, that might fuck up a few things, same as sending with D&V, chicken pox etc. Jesus wept @pastabest are you high ot something?

Our school is 5 days off, no negative test needed. My advice is to check with the school.

Jesus wept @pastabest are you high ot something?

Nope. I'm literally reporting on a conversation I overheard at the school gates. I perhaps didn't phrase it very well but essentially that seems to be the vibe there is at our school.

I've kept my children off numerous times with coughs and colds / suspected covid (weve never yet actually tested positive for it as a family) and always tested when it was a requirement. But there has definitely been a swing recently to people being more annoyed that other parents HAVE tested than annoyed that they haven't.

I do appreciate your position but I can't change that this is increasingly how people are viewing it?

Current advice for adults is 5 days isolation. For under 18s it's 3 days isolation. It's almost like they want all the kids to catch covid.

Personally I wouldn't send them back until symptoms have resolved and they have had a negative lft, I know not everyone has stocks left/can afford to buy them though.
Hope he's ok and feels better soon. And that you avoid it too, of course

educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2022/03/30/living-with-covid-the-end-of-routine-testing-in-schools-colleges-and-childcare-settings/

Ours also hasn't had a single thing about covid on it, and likewise refuse to put on any information about sickness policy advice, as the LA believe this then becomes adhered to which is apparently unnecessary and makes the LA appear to have a poor attendance rate!

Our school is clear you can send them in if they feel fine, keep them off if they are ill (like any other illness) absolutely no isolation - I am genuinely suprised any ENglish school would have that any more - it really is business as usual - go in if you feel fine, stay off if hit badly with it.

Also I am surprised at people testing tbh! Lots of colds go around all the time and people send kids in/ don't if they are particularly unwell. Wouldn't occur to me to test now.