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To be very annoyed at these parents?

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sacti · 08/07/2021 16:20

DD is in secondary school, she came home very annoyed. She told me that a boy she sits next to in quite a few of her lessons got sent home on Tuesday, she didn't know why but he wasn't at school yesterday. But today, he kept complaining he felt unwell, DD had to sit next to him for 3 lessons today!

After he was complaining for a while, the teacher told him that the school tried to call his dad but he didn't answer and told him he could just put his head on the desk and not work. DD also said he took his mask off and kept coughing. DD also asked him to move his chair as he was sitting very close to her but he refused apparently.

I'm not blaming the school, but I thought they could put a child with covid symptoms somewhere away from the rest of the class whilst waiting for their parents, or am I wrong?

I'm so annoyed at his parents though! As if he was sent home the other day, why send him back if he's still unwell?

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Youdiditanyway · 08/07/2021 16:23

Poor show from the school. At my DC’s school they put the children with symptoms in a separate room on their own until someone collects them.

Makhiaman · 08/07/2021 16:26

Isn’t it likely he’s had a negative test since he was sent home?

User5827372728 · 08/07/2021 16:28

Hopefully as he went home then returned he had a negative pcr test?

monkeysox · 08/07/2021 16:30

Due to bubbles and lack of space school has nowhere to put children who are ill it's awful.

toocold54 · 08/07/2021 16:44

There are lots of coughs, colds and bugs going around right now so it’s not possible to isolate all of them. Chances are hes had symptoms and done a LFT and it was negative and his parents haven’t got him a PCR one or he’s done a PCR one and it’s not covid.

Just so you know I have had a cough, headache and stomach ache for a few days which are some of the symptoms and I’ve done LFT and PCR thinking I definitely had it but they’ve all come back negative.

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sacti · 08/07/2021 17:19

@Youdiditanyway

Poor show from the school. At my DC’s school they put the children with symptoms in a separate room on their own until someone collects them.
Yes, I thought this was the case at DDs school.

But I'm wondering that even if he did have a negative pcr, why did they send him to school if he felt so unwell as the whole class could still get ill even if it's not covid.

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/07/2021 17:22

If he’s ill, he should be at home, regardless of what actually ails the poor lad - for his own well-being as well as that of his classmates, @sacti.

It makes me wonder if his parents don’t want to/can’t take time off, so have sent him to school knowing he is not well - which is neglectful and selfish.

BluebellsGreenbells · 08/07/2021 17:26

There are lots of coughs, colds and bugs going around right now so it’s not possible to isolate all of them

If he’s that unwell he’s lying down in class he needs to be elsewhere covid or not

Lulola · 08/07/2021 17:46

There are lots of coughs, colds and bugs going around right now so it’s not possible to isolate all of them

Even if it isn’t COVID, half the class can now end up with it and end up having to miss a day or two of school to go and do a test, alongside parents having to isolate until it’s negative and miss work.

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sacti · 08/07/2021 18:04

@Lulola

There are lots of coughs, colds and bugs going around right now so it’s not possible to isolate all of them

Even if it isn’t COVID, half the class can now end up with it and end up having to miss a day or two of school to go and do a test, alongside parents having to isolate until it’s negative and miss work.

That's also why I'm annoyed as an unwell child shouldn't be sent to school anyway but definitely not in covid times, if the child is clearly unwell and has some of the covid symptoms (even if tested negative) as the rest of the class can get it and need to miss days of school for tests etc. And I also wouldn't have thought his parents would need to stay off work if he's unwell (if he's been tested of course) as he's secondary school aged and I have left DD at home whilst I've been at work when she's needed to isolate for being a close contact etc.
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Cam2020 · 08/07/2021 18:27

He might have had the test done already and had a negative result?

Sometimes people seem better then feel worse again?

RuggerHug · 08/07/2021 18:37

Bad enough sending him back but ignoring the call is really out of order. He's old enough to be home alone in bed if the parents couldn't miss work or whatever the excuse was for sending him in.

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sacti · 08/07/2021 19:03

@Cam2020

He might have had the test done already and had a negative result?

Sometimes people seem better then feel worse again?

Even if the test was negative, if he still felt unwell he shouldn't have been at school, especially if the school wanted to send him home again as the school rarely send children home unless they're actually sick or if they have covid symptoms.
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F900 · 08/07/2021 20:05

I'd be annoyed too OP.

Chachachawoo · 08/07/2021 23:16

I'd be livid.
I hope your dd doesn't catch anything. It's horrible to send an ill kid into school covid or not.
I get people have to go to work so they dose up the child and send them in and pass the problem along for all the other kids and parents to deal with. Totally selfish and very annoying

Crazycakelady17 · 08/07/2021 23:34

I’d be livid too at the school and the parents,
My DD had a coughing fit a few weeks ago they put her in the old nurses room and a member of staff kept checking till I got there she’s y6 luckily it wasn’t Covid but her asthma it’s one of her symptoms but glad they were so thorough

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