To put a complaint in about the schools hygiene

[Rightyoh]

The kids in F2 are dropping like flies with a sickness bug. I’m on a WhatsApp group with several of the parents and every day there’s at least 2/3 kids being sent home or being sick during the night.
My DS has just started with it.
Surely the school must know that the kids are all getting it there as they’re always off!
The school only has a 24 hour rule as opposed to the 48hr rule that the NHS follow
I’m so tempted to make a call to the local health authority as clearly, their hygiene Practices need some work! I’m really angry about this!

What hygiene practices do you think they are failing to follow? A sickness bug will go through a class regardless of them being told to wash their hands and the desks being cleaned it's just one of those things. Most kids will already have passed the bug to another child before they start feeling sick themselves so whether they are off for 24 or 48hrs after the last occurrence of vomiting isnt that relevant really.

What do you think the school should do? My dd’s school closed for a long weekend thanks to an outbreak of norovirus affecting almost everyone. The school was fumigated but the reality was that the kids continued to get it as they had all be in contact with each other in the incubation stage. Kids are inherently disgusting and no matter how much hand washing and disinfecting goes on, unless to physically remove them from contact with each other, the sickness will prevail. When dd’s school closed the Facebook page was alive with parents organising play dates and shared childcare so they were still meeting to continue passing on the infection even then. I honestly don’t know how a school can really deal with it and don’t think this means they have terrible hygiene (unless of course you have some evidence that they do).

This happened at a friend's children's school and they shut a couple of days early before a holiday and did a deep clean of the classrooms. I am pretty sure they had a 48 hour rule, I suspect the kids were infectious before their first symptom. If you are due to break up for half term, maybe ask if there are plans to prevent any more sickness when they go back?

YABU

Norovirus outbreaks happen all the time in all sorts of places. It's highly contagious. It's much easier contained by good hygiene practices of an individual (i.e. proper frequent hand washing) rather than hygiene practices of an establishment.

A school is a place where kids are running around touching door handles, sharing equipment, being in close proximity and then picking their noses, throwing their fingers in their mouths, rubbing their eyes and getting ill.

YABU to be so angry about this. It’s almost impossible to stop bugs spreading in schools

There were several parents at the school this morning complaining about it

Apart from the fact they should have a 48 hour rule, I'm not sure you can do much about kids spreading diseases. It's like germ warfare in schools!

I actually agree with the op.

At my children's school the wash basins are outside the toilet room so children don't often wash their hands. Staff never remind children and little ones do need reminding. They don't say anything when a child is picking their nose etc. They pressurise you to have good attendance. The soap dispenses are grubby and too high up for some shorter children to reach and they have material hand towels to dry on which is manky.

Parents also need to do their best too at home to get into good habits.

(Slightly invested as have immuno suppressed child)

YANBU

they should have the 48 hour rule

I do t understand why they changed to 24hrs? They changed it last year