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

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What would you do ??

@Zaza1414 it doesn't say that at all. It says not to come in if you have recently returned from one of the listed countries AND HAVE BREATHING DIFFICULTIES.

Exactly, @Limpshade - which is why I asked if she had attached the wrong screenshot ! Panic causes poor comprehension, not withstanding the admirable clarity of the UK gov / NHS and the WHO

This has happened at my school too. None of the staff or students have any symptoms it is on precautionary advice from Public health. I would send your child in.

Carmel College Darlington and a college in Middlesbrough also have sent pupils home and closed the school today due to pupils returning from Verona.

Our school flew out to and then home from Verona on Saturday for his school ski trip, but the advice is that they go in to school as normal, so not all schools are exercising the same precautions.

Sorry should read 'my son flew'

Op, I'm confused as to how his asthma isn't chronic.

Asthma is usually a chronic (ie longstanding) condition.

@CarolHasAnotherUTI

Thank goodness he's mostly grown out of it but just needs his inhalers wen ill with a cold as it always goes to his chest ! I

What does it matter which school it is

I work with someone who was in Italy skiing last week, I'm not going to be stopping going to work and neither Is she and her children are going to school, it wasn't a school trip, as she wasn't in the affected area.

The country will be grinding to a halt

@CarolHasAnotherUTI people always confuse chronic (meaning long-term) with acute (short lasting and severe). I work.in healthcare and 50% of people get this wrong!

So if parents keep kids off as a precaution with no symptoms will EWO be involved, do they count as unauthorised absences.

Doesn't concern me, no youngsters, but it tends to be a hot MN topic.

@JoshArcherStoleMyTractor
The school wouldn't have gone skiing because they have metal detectors??

www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/news/health/dagenham-school-coronavirus-advice-1-6531732

@UtterlyPerfectCartoonGiraffe I'm not sure, I just scanned through the cambridge news article on Facebook last night. Pretty sure all who went are being told to self isolate, though.

My daughter is at that school, & she has gone. One of the girls sent home yesterday is her friend, & she’s had a couple of lessons with her.

As they were at school on Monday, & only sent home yesterday, it never entered my head to keep her off.

If she has a pre existing condition I may have taken a different path.

Are you going to keep him off for 2 weeks? Genuine question.

People go mad when schools shut “because of a wee bit of snow” but decide to keep their children off despite there being zero risk to them.

Why do you need a group of strangers to decide what you do ?

Wonder what people done before they could ask a host of randoms online whether to do this or not ?

Oh Yes, I remember now . We decided OURSELVES

@DontPetTheSweatyStuff I checked the local fb page which has shed a bit of light on it. Looks like children and staff are only being told to self isolate if they have symptoms, otherwise they should come to school even if they went on the ski trip. They were about 100km from one of the affected areas and travelled by coach rather than plane, so that’s possibly helped. Some parents seem happy with that, others a lot less so!

It’s frustrating that different schools are having such different reactions. It makes it so hard to know what to do and whether you’re overreacting

Super useful @WhentheRabbitsWentWild People didn’t decide by themselves, they talked to their family and friends and Doris at the supermarket. We’re lucky to have an extended community like Mumsnet to share opinions. Maybe online forums aren’t really for you if you don’t agree with that

I would send my kid to school in those circumstances yes. It would worry me. But then it worries me that they might fall off the climbing frame and gain a life changing head injury or drown at their swimming lesson, or die in a car crash, these are all things that have been risk assessed and any harms minimised as much as possible. I am still more worried about them getting meningitis or sepsis than I am about them getting corona virus. It doesn't change the way we live our lives.

YABU and selfish to keep kids off with no official advice/instructions.

No YANBU
Keep them home.
I think all international travel should be banned at this point and our border shut indefinitely to protect the public.
I already told school if there is any instances in our town my two are staying home and they've agreed to that. My child has compromised lungs though so I am genuinely shitting myself be could get ill.

@BiBiBirdie, it’s too late now to shut borders - the horse has bolted. Italy was one of the very first countries to ban all travellers from China, yet they are now one of the worst hit countries.

The Diamond Princess outbreak (over 600 cases) was caused by one man from Hong Kong who had previously taken a cruise on that ship (ie he wasn’t one of the current passengers). This shows how infection clusters develop in communities. It seems inevitable that there will be clusters in the UK.

So if parents keep kids off as a precaution with no symptoms will EWO be involved, do they count as unauthorised absences.

I hope so

Makes me wonder how parents fared pre-90s. I mean, how did they work out if it was OK for their kids to go to school? That must have been hardcore parenting!

My son's school went to the unaffected part of Italy but apparently his friend has decided to self-isolate for the next two weeks.

Unless anyone has actually been diagnosed I'd send them in.