My ex and I share three children, one an adult and the others seven and four. He has the Littles every other weekend Friday night until Sunday afternoon and a night in the week.
He and his wife are both school teachers.
It’s his weekend to have the kids.
He rang me this morning and said youngest was “grotty” yesterday and then early hours this morning had high temperature. He checked and it was 39. Gave calpol and after an hour was still raised but lower.
He said so “I’m bringing them back to you so you’ll have to arrange time off work and look after them”!
I said “No! You have to get him tested and all of you guys need to isolate until you get a negative test”.
I also told him that bringing them back to me wouldn’t solve his problem as he and his wife would still have to isolate as they’ve had the kids all weekend. He told me that I needed to have them so they could go into work anyway!! These people are teachers!
He has now agreed, having spoken to his head, that he will get a test and he and wife will take the time off, but this is because I said if I knew they weren’t isolating I would report them, and because his head teacher (whose view on the actual law obviously trumps mine) agreed with me.
Also, worried about my son as another of mine was seriously ill after a high temperature years ago and in PICU and he has a car and lives near a hospital and I don’t and am rural. So it makes sense anyway for him to look after them.
These people are in SMT in schools; although it’s now sorted I still feel pissed off (probably because am anxious as after having a very seriously ill child a few years ago, I’m a bit anxious about temperatures anyway).