Aibu to be really cross about this breakfast club situation?

[Henni19]

My 3yo started at the school nursery on Thursday, his 5yo brother went into y1.
On Friday I put them into breakfast club as I had work.
School are still operating bubbles and all other restrictions (i am annoyed about this, although from a thread I posted the other day many disagreed with me).
Anyway it turns out my 3yo is the only child in the nursery bubble in breakfast club so they made him sit at a table on his own for the whole hour, while his brother sat the other side of the hall with his friends.
My eldest saw him crying asking for me and asked if he could sit with him but was told he wasn't allowed.
Only 2 staff work there and they both greeted us so no confusion over them being brothers, sounds like just taking the bubble rule to the extreme.
I cant work out if I am more devastated or bloody fuming about it.
Aibu to send an email to school asking them to use some common sense?
2 days in and 3yo already doesn't want to go back ☹

@Theworldishard

Don't take it out on me that schools aren't run as you would like. I do my best, I work so hard with the children. But it is my job at the end of the day and if my headteacher says they can't cross bubbles, I have to adhere to that.

I would be able to go to my headteacher and explain that a three year old is sitting alone crying for his mother while his brother is at the other end of the room, and she'd immediately respond positively.

You and your school sound awful. Nowhere where I've taught would have dismissed the concerns of a member of staff reporting this situation, or the needs of that three year old on his first days at school

@Bloodypunkrockers I would have thought the heart of granite post would've been cited by you but I really don't care what you think because she was over the top and heartless about a small child.

I thought government policy is for covid to pass through the youngest generation generation and rhem to build immunity and then herd immunity in that way.

.. So i don't kniw why this school is b ubbling

@Theworldishard

Anyway I'm off to bed with my DH, got to be up early for my LO. Good night. 💗💗💗💗💗💗

Some of the posters on here have been incredibly rude and personal about your posts

There was nothing wrong with them. But then I don't do shaking and crying and I haven't been on the gin. And I'm not a sanctimonious dick either.

Sleep well

That is bloody horrendous.

Realistically, what is the benefit of not allowing him to join his brother's bubble in this unusual situation? Surely any "bugs" between the two of them get passed on at home, so the other children get exposed to them whether or not the little brother joins?

[quote EKGEMS]@Bloodypunkrockers You're just a sanctimonious twit [/quote]
Oooh. Burn

@Theworldishard you can’t complain and be upset people are judging you on your words when you judged @Fubitch character because she used a swear word, swearing is not an indicator of someone’s character. That’s some powerful double standards.

You’ve massively derailed the thread probably best to leave it here now.

@Henni19 can you send an email to the head? I’d come at it from the angle that there’s no need fo bubbles anymore so there’s no reason your youngest can’t be in his brothers bubble. They have a duty of care to his emotional health as much as they do for his education, leaving a 3yo to cry for his mum whilst everyone including the adults just look on at him is utterly barbaric. I’m so sorry this is happening to him, as PP have said classic case of ‘computer says no’.

[quote EKGEMS]**@Bloodypunkrockers* You're like an annoying little chihuahua aren't you? It's pitiful that you think @Theworldishard* is a victim when she has conceded to being wrong?! [/quote]
I think you need to put the bottle down and go to bed

You should not personal attacks are against T & C

Would you tell a nurse/Dr that isn't allowed to let relatives to see their dying ones cold and heartless? Genuinely curious.

If they were reporting that this is what happened on a forum where people were obviously upset about it and then just following up with robotic comments about following the rules, yes I’d think they were heartless. If they then said people challenging the rules were likely to be seen as a pain, that would confirm my view.

That is horrendous and I would be devastated if that was my DC. I'm not sure I could trust the BC after that. I"d look for a childminder. Not sure if I'd want my DF at a school where the BC operated like that, tbh. I hope you get a good response from the Head.

DC not DF!

@NannyAndJohn

You have to realise that if they break the rules and one of the children ends up getting Covid, the staff member responsible will likely end up in a lot of trouble.

There are no winners here, unfortunately.

Yes, because he'd have got COVID from His brother in that hour at breakfast club, not in the closer confines of the car or at home?!

Though I'm not surprised you said that, you're on your usual form.

Aww your poor little boy. How can he even begin to understand why he is to sit by himself?
You do sound like a wonderful parent, OP.

What is it with these bubbles. Its now just beyond ridiculous! Like in Sweden, if a child is taken ill, they should be sent home for a week to recover.
No other child should be excluded unless, if and when, they fall ill.
Children need to be at school! Haven't they suffered enough!
You do wonder if the teachers/schools are perpetuating these bubbles for their own purpose.

I think you are unreasonable for being angry that the school still have bubbles - it is more risky now than ever for kids in school. And some are immune compromised.

However you are very reasonable for being upset about your son, no way should he have had to sit by himself that is very cruel.

And the school are unreasonable and wrong for thinking bubbles are ‘kids sat together’ - you either never mix groups of kids in different rooms (which is the only way of reducing transmission).

Covid is airborne which means it circulates around a room so your child was sat away from others for no reason. Which is even sadder.

Complain. Complain. Complain. How ridiculous to keep one child on their own when he lives with his brother. Crazy. Wish people would use some common sense.

I’d contact the school, head if necessary. All those saying siblings can’t cross bubbles - you do understand that siblings already cross bubbles by living together, they are just pretending they aren’t crossing bubbles by keeping them separate at school. Definitely not a good enough reason to keep a 3yo isolated!
And the hospital example is a bad one. People in hospital are isolated from their families. Their families are living their life outside the hospital. Letting them visit does mean they could bring in infections.

To those of you saying that’s what you’d do at you breakfast club, could you not just sit the siblings together in this scenario? Problem solved, is it not?

Oh the poor little lad, that's fucking awful.

How stupid and insensitive of them.