AIBU NOT TO SEND MY child to school where 19 children and 4 teachers have been sent home

[coco1728]

What would you do ??

Judging by this threat, it could be in any number of local authorities!

YANBU

I remember threads almost identical to this back in the days of swine flu. That's really driven it home to me how long I've been messing about on mumsnet

If you are asthmatic, diabetic, or otherwise “compromised”, or your child is, I’d keep them home. Otherwise rock on.

The children sent home don't actually have symptoms, do they? They have just been near someone who has been near someone who has CV? At that remove I think I would be fairly easy about sending into school (since those children will not be there anyway) but I am not an infectious disease expert. I would imagine advice must have been provided? I know our school have sent out advice, and there is no "link" to any danger areas.

My daughters school sent some children and teachers home today due to being on a skiing trip in Italy.

However Public Health England have said that as their resort isn’t on the affected list, only the area, all should be at school unless they have symptoms. Surely by the time they show symptoms they will have shared the virus with countless others...

Same has been announced in Crofton,Wakefield too.

2 schools have sent pupils home because they've just come back from a skiing trip in Lombardy
Sydney Russell school in dagenham essex and one in bexleyheath
Precautionary for 48 hours
That is all . Unless they present symptoms
Yes YABU

Obviously there are more schools taking this precautionary measure but they are 2 that I know of

This is in West Yorkshire not been to Lombardy but passed through milan ! But forgot to mention I sold have a ,5 month old baby

Surely the problem would be if they hadn’t been sent home. Now they have been, hasn’t that removed the risk?

Although I suppose it depends on whether they could have been infectious but asymptomatic for the one day they were in, have passed it other pupils, who will become infectious whilst being asymptomatic, who then pass it onto your dc. My understanding is that viruses tend to be most infectious when symptoms are apparent but there is some infectious potential for a day or two beforehand.

Nope guess again

Dds school had this after a ski trip to italy. This is North Essex. Had no idea unti a colleague mentioned it.

My doctors wont see anyone that has been in contact with any that has returned from 'at risk' areas.

Oooo this will be interesting. On the one hand, Mumsnetters don’t take days off sick or allow their children to be off sick. Then again, Mumsnetters are terrified of coronavirus.

😂 Mumsnetter ultimate dilemma!... Self-isolate for the next 6 months and ruin your ability to boast about never taking a day off in 10’years having insisted on coming and taking 3 buses into work with your leg and arm hanging off immediately after a chainsaw accident, or go to work and risk the dreaded corona!

So guys send him or not ???????

Not

Obviously send him to school!

Northwich, Cheshire, isn’t it. What’s the advice from school?

Yes send your child to school unless he was actually on that trip and you've been told to keep him home for 48 hours then yes yabu for keeping him off

@Willowashen

I'm.not one of them! Im interested.WWYD ??????

The CDC in the US has announced the virus will disrupt normal life or some such wording. Let this be your disruption if it makes you feel safer.

Salendine Nook?

Honestly, we’ve had this in schools all over Cornwall today, closing down because some of the kids went skiing in a country that has confirmed corona cases during half term week... they weren’t even in the immediate area!

By lunchtime, everybody was cleared to go back into school again, because Public Health had been consulted again, and no risk was found.

Sounds like quite alot of schools then for a precautionary measure
Is still send him if he wasnt on the trip
Theres no reason to keep him off