College making up thier own covid rules

[Doyouknowwhat]

A teacher at dds college has shown covid symptoms.

They are telling all students who were in her lessons for 48 hours previously not to come in until she has test results.
It makes me cross, because that is not the rules.
They have to self isolate if her test comes back positive, not before.
And they are not telling the class to self isolate, just not to come to college.

Aibu to think this is just too over the top and scaremongering.

Maybe they know something they haven’t shared? If, for example, her partner or child already has a positive test result and she now has symptoms then they are being very sensible.

I am so glad to hear of an organisation engaging in actual critical thinking instead of box ticking.

If that teacher has really bloody obvious covid symptoms then of course isolate now instead of waiting for the results.

Seems pretty sensible. If they strongly suspect she is positive, they dont want her students mixing with other students. There will have been some mixing but they're trying to stop it before it gets worse.

They cant tell.them to isolate since that's not the law, but they can absolutely tell them not to come to campus and maybe advise them to isolate.

I work in a nursery. If we sent all children home each time one coughed,wed be permenantly closed.
What we do is ask them to get a test and not return till they have a negative result.
If one is positive, we will follow local hpa advice on who to isolate.

Out of about 15 we have sent for a test, not one has been positive.

I'm glad I don't have to manage this sort of situation. The college evidently don't want a breakout so it seems sensible for them to tell people to stay home. It has no impact on anybody else so why are you so angry?

But again OP, you dont know the extent of it. It might not just be a cough. She could have had close contact with a confirmed case.

The college have made this decision for a reason.

They're allowed to be stricter than the government guidelines, they're not allowed to be more relaxed. Them's the rules.

I don’t see the problem 🤷🏻‍♀️
Of course they’re not telling them to isolate - the college have no basis for telling them that.
They can however run their college in the way they see as safest.

Would you be one of those people that would complain, “well they should have said she’d gone for a test, even before the positive, so we could have not gone to granny’s”?

I work in a nursery. If we sent all children home each time one coughed,wed be permenantly closed.

What is the child had a cough, a fever and lost their sense of taste? You said the teacher had 'covid symptoms' then assumed it was just the cough.

I'm not 'so angry' just a bit miffed that they are disrupting learning for such a small risk.
The teachers all stay at least 2m from the kids, wear visors, and the kids wear masks all the time, clean the desks before each lesson, only in college for thier lessons, dont use the canteen etc.

If the teacher tests positive, then contact tracing will happen.

If we all shut down whilst someone we have not been close to is waiting for a test, no one would ever get anything done.

It depends how close they get to the teacher as well. If good SD is in place then they wouldn’t need to isolate anyway even if the teacher does test positive but if it is a practicle type course and this teacher has been close(ish) to students then it seems sensible to me.

My DD is in the same position at college, teacher showing two of the symptoms so has been told to stay away from college and advised to self isolate until test results come back. The only problem I have is that the could become a regular occurrence especially this time of year. The teachers are always 2 metres separated from the students.

I don't think college is being unreasonable - I say that as someone who would prefer to live under Swedish strategy. So not out of abundance of caution by nature. Shouldn't be more than 2 days and the kids will be back when she tests negative.

Sounds v similar, Boulshired, wonder if it's common occurrence, or the same college?

If you have been exposed to someone with symptoms then you must self isolate for 14 days. You can’t just get a test and then go about your business if it’s negative because you may still be incubating corona virus.

The risk of toddlers spreading it vs young adults spreading it are worlds apart op, surelyyou know that so know your example isnt comparable?

Have you not seen the daily 1000+ cases being published from unis?

No, you must isolate for 14 days if you have been exposed to someone who has tested positive, not who is showing symptoms.

@Doyouknowwhat your right, I shouldn’t multitask when mn.

Looking at the way the virus is running rampant through universities, I think they’re being very sensible.

Well, I'm just pleased she is 17 and can look after herself. If this was the approach a school took, and I'd have to take time off to look after her, my job would be on the line

It's college. If a teacher is off sick then even in normal times often the class won't go ahead. They rarely cover short term absence in colleges and sixth forms.

It's also not the same as a child having a cough. This is a teacher. She knows if she's feeling not quite right or if she's actually got a cough, rather than just a clearing of her throat type cough. Presumably you don't actually know which symptoms she has either. She's not gone home just for a mere sniffle I'm sure.

If she has Covid then it's a darn sight easier to contain it with them all being advised to stay home now rather than several days later too.

I've just seen she's 17. Is this the first time she's in college rather than normal school years.

As said before, it's the norm for lessons to be cancelled for absent teachers in colleges and sixth firms ime. Even before Covid. Colleges and sixth forms don't usually pay for supply cover for short term absence.

She has had lessons cancelled before, yes, but only the ones taught by the ill teacher. Now she will miss all 3 a level subjects.
The 3 extra weeks at the end of the year that the government are giving us will be quickly negated by lesson cancellations, I think.

If they have obvious COVID symptoms such as a cough and a temperature.

Seems like a perfectly sensible precaution

It's not like the kids will magically not start spreading the virus until the test comes back positive is it? At college presumably they're all 16-18 so it's not like them staying at home requires anyone to take time off work and they should be mature and independent enough to get on with something useful at home. If the test is negative they'll come back in shortly no harm done. If it's positve it's possibly saved hundreds of students catching it too, having to isolate and taking it home to their families.