To think the school are BU by wanting me to get DS tested?

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A member of the household had covid symptoms but the test came back negative. DS(5) now has caught the cold and has a cough and the school are asking for a test. I don't want to get him tested as I know it's a cold but aibu or are the school?

Having a child who has shielded all year, but is now back at school...threads like these do my stress levels no good.

@tv86

I've sent mine to school with coughs loads and they haven't being sent home or have I being questioned over it.

Come on, I will bite...

Why?

Even if you somehow had magical powers and did know it was just a cold (which you don’t because theres no way you can know with 100% certainty where the cough came from) they could give it to numerous other students who would all have to then go and get a PCR test when they themselves develop a cough as they obviously wouldn’t know they’d got it from your child? Disrupting the education of many other students. Did you even think of this?

@tv86

“I've sent mine to school with coughs loads and they haven't being sent home or have I being questioned over it.”

Even if this was a joke - it will be no laughing matter when others do this and it directly impacts you and your loved ones with potentially paying the ultimate price. Treat others how you wish to be treated or better still instil in others a sense of pride and civic duty of care decency! That way we can unite to beat the common enemy in this ongoing medical pandemic war! Evidently Covid is smart as no one can cheat it - not anti vaxxers nor those who claim exemption as no one is exempt from infection or perpetual super mutating spreading.

@tv86

I've sent mine to school with coughs loads and they haven't being sent home or have I being questioned over it.

Hopefully there are no vulnerable staff or children in the school then.

I caught covid in school from a child (most likely scenario from the time) and ended up in hospital. Thanks to people sending in children with 'a cold' from what we can gather.

MintyMabel

One coughing fit isn't really what people are talking about here.

A cough 'with a cold' is unlikely to be one isolated coughing fit.

op don't be selfish. It's not about you and your ds only, this affects his class and teachers.

cough 'with a cold' is unlikely to be one isolated coughing fit

It can be more than that without meeting the NHS criteria of a Covid cough for which one must isolate and test.

The school isn't making up these rules, they are from Public Health and their guidance is that if a child has ANY cough, they must either test or isolate before returning to school.

Incorrect. The public health guidance to schools is clear, and when talking about who shouldn’t attend school it links to the NHS guidance for what constitutes a Covid symptom.

Nowhere in the guidance, not anywhere at all, does it say a child should isolate and test for ANY cough. If someone within the school system is telling you that, they are misinformed.

www.gov.uk/government/collections/guidance-for-schools-coronavirus-covid-19

[quote MintyMabel]cough 'with a cold' is unlikely to be one isolated coughing fit

It can be more than that without meeting the NHS criteria of a Covid cough for which one must isolate and test.

The school isn't making up these rules, they are from Public Health and their guidance is that if a child has ANY cough, they must either test or isolate before returning to school.

Incorrect. The public health guidance to schools is clear, and when talking about who shouldn’t attend school it links to the NHS guidance for what constitutes a Covid symptom.

Nowhere in the guidance, not anywhere at all, does it say a child should isolate and test for ANY cough. If someone within the school system is telling you that, they are misinformed.

www.gov.uk/government/collections/guidance-for-schools-coronavirus-covid-19[/quote]
The information comes direct from Public Health in the city where I work.

The information comes direct from Public Health in the city where I work.

Which is not following the Public Health England guidance. Which has been the problem with schools throughout this whole thing.

Just test him...?? Even a doctor wouldn’t know for sure without testing. Why would you be any different? You’ll still all have to isolate anyway...

I swear all the people who moan about being tested would be the first ones too complain if someone else spread it all around the class.

The schools doing the right thing to keep everyone safe. The amount of people who "just have a cold" have killed thousands.