To think the class should be quarantined for 14 days?

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Scenario- family of 4 all get ill at the same time , all get tested at the same time.

Mum and dad and baby come back positive within a day or so. DD7 (who is very ill with the same symptoms)'s test doesn't come back at all. It has now been 5 days.

My AIBU is that her class has not been sent home as it would have been if an 'official positive' had come back even though it is likely she has been contagious and in the class.

For example of school policy there has been another positive in the rest of the school and the class were sent home for the 2week quarantine period.

What do you guys think?

I think they should all be debt home pronto, no question. It's largely irrelevant if her test hasn't come back if the rest of the household are positive imo

Sent home obvs 🙄

Didn't the contact tracers for mum, dad and baby flag this? I'd have thought that the daughter would have been named as a contact (obviously!) and one of the parents would explain the situation, that she was also ill, but the test had gone AWOL. (Or the contact tracers would have got that out of them if they hadn't thought to say).

In that case, the contact tracer would likely conclude that DD was a positive case, and her close contacts would be identified. Which would reveal she had been in school and the process for that would kick off with the school (isolating the bubble or whatever is appropriate)?

If this is a real scenario rather than hypothetical it is worrying it has got to day 5 without being contacted. Though if there had been in-school transmission, it would be likely other children/ staff would be affected by now and the system can start again with isolating those that are needed.

And this is why the numbers are going up so quickly.

Sent home.

Schools being negligent by waiting for a positive test

No they should not all be sent home. Once a positive result is confirmed an assessment should be made of which children have been in close contact and then they should be sent home. Not the whole class or school, we have heard stories of 300 children being sent home because of one positive case. Over the top responses from schools is causing chaos.

This is a very real scenario, this is my daughters best friend, who is in her bubble school. We didn't know anything of it until we spoke to her last night. She sounded awful.

The school have not given any information out or any indication that the kids may have been exposed.

She shouldn't have been in school at all if there were confirmed cases in her house. Not that I really give two hoots but I thought those were the rules.

No her mum took her off as soon as she got ill (I assume the all got ill at the same time, then took tests at the same time)

I am assuming that because I don't know any better.

But since the parents have come back positive then either the parents haven't notified the school or the school has not taken action to isolate the class.

I'm wondering now if I call the school? Hmm

Have you spoken to the mother/ father? Even if just under the guise of offering help/ support...must be grim to have all the family ill at the same time. It sounds like there may have been a cock up somewhere, and though the parents maybe should have informed the school of the positive test in the household I can understand why they didn't...other worries and so on. It shouldn't be their responsibility anyway. Test and trace should have been all over this, especially as you say there was an earlier case in the school.

Alternatively, there could be a bit of confusion on the part of the 7year old...?Not that I'm saying she's lying about the 3 positive tests in the family, but she could have confused getting the results of the test back, with it being positive for CV, when it was actually negative. Hence why it may be better to confirm with a parent before going to the school. As she's obviously ill, she should definitely be at home, and she may not be the most reliable source.

In the year below my son, 1 child has tested positive. They have sent the whole year home to isolate for 14 days, that's 9 classes of 30 children each, so 269 (probably) healthy children are missing school for 2 weeks because of one positive test. They all have all been wearing masks in communal areas, sanitising hands and hardly ever moving classrooms anyway. I don't blame the school though, the guidance has been woolly and it's been left to headteachers to decide what to do at their schools. It would be better to have a consistent ruling from the government on what to do in this situation, although, considering how badly they've done with so many Covid decisions, maybe not!

If you start sending classes home because one person has been in close contact with a confirmed case then there would be so many classes being sent home.
They don’t know if she is positive yet. For perspective my DS has Covid and his close friend had the exact same symptoms as did 2 other members of their family. They were all tested and were negative. They need to work on getting test result back quicker.
Also track and trace haven’t even been in touch with us and my DS tested positive last Friday. We are in a lockdown area anyway so luckily our contacts are minimal so I have rang around. But it took 4 days for the results so it was a bit pointless by then.

The positives are confirmed- spoke to a friend of the Mums in the yard and she also confirmed the daughters test had just not had a result returned.

Yes I think perhaps the parent has forgotten to inform the school and since no 'official' child has a positive the LE haven't informed the school either.

The child has received a positive test now and we have had 'the email' from school. Eek.