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.

And this, right here, is why COVID will never be ‘under control’ while people act as though sensible precautions are an over-reaction...
What’s the alternative - act like nothing is wrong and wait until it rips though the entire cohort and then wail and gnash your teeth about how “the teacher gived my kid COVID”?

@Doyouknowwhat

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.

A bit cavalier, OP. By the time the teacher does or doesn't test positive , it might be too late for that. You don't know other people's situations.

I teach in a college, although we are 100% remote for now. There will be complications in terms of covering classes, as well as being cautious that students have had contact with the lecturer.

My work have done an amazing job in terms of smaller classes, distancing, hygiene measures etc, but when I was in and teaching it was still very difficult to be 2m from students at all times. (Our principal opted to make everything theory based remote as soon as cases started rising again to limit numbers on campus as much as possible.)

But what is the point of government guidelines if they are not safe enough?

I was just going from the published rules, but seems like everyone on this thread thinks they should be stricter.

And her remote learning, if she gets given any for her other subjects, will be like during lockdown.
That consisted of 'do page 3 and 4 of the booklet'
Not really teaching, is it?

But what is the point of government guidelines if they are not safe enough?

Government guidelines are the minimum requirements to be legal. YOu must have seen that cases, and hospital admissions are going up so clearly current measure aren't sufficient.

To be honest it's nice to hear the college is taking the risk seriously.
If the teacher tests negative your Dd will miss 3 or 4 days of lessons. If she tests positive then it reduces the risk of it spreading, which is good.

As someone (I teach too actually) who tested positive yesterday I wouldn't actually want to risk my child having what I currently have.

Agree with pp, the guidelines are the minimum standard. I am very glad our principal has gone over and above them, putting staff and students’ safety as the priority.

I can’t speak for any other colleges, but I am teaching a full live timetable via Teams, so students attend classes as if they were on campus. We also provide “asynchronous activities” which are to be done outside timetabled slots (which might be reading, a piece of writing to go with a case study, a programme to watch with questions to answer, and so on), plus one-to-one meetings with my tutor group every second week. (The class was split in half to make it safe for distancing, so I see them alternate weeks.)

We did exactly the same throughout full lockdown. All teaching materials are also on a virtual learning platform for anyone who missed live classes because of sickness, childcare etc - but we would do that as standard pre-Covid.

I would give my right arm to be back in front of my classes as normal. I am contracted to work four days a week, and working at least five because remote teaching is much harder work!

Teacher was negative, so all back to college today.