To think this class should be closed?

[Jenster03]

I'm a part time primary teacher and in the space of two weeks, 14 children have tested positive out of 30 in my class.
We've had 2 or 3 return in that time, but more and more are testing positive. Now my teaching assistant has it.
AIBU to think we should be sending the class home and remote learning? How would you feel if you were a parent of a child in my class?
Oh, and I'm pretty anxious about my level of exposure too!

Schools were meant to get CO2 monitors, not filters. No school I know of has got them yet

@KaycePollard

If the CEV group kept themselves separate, schools can operate as normal, with no need for the 10 day isolation policy.

So you’re advocating apartheid @SheikhMaraca ? You do realise that CEV people are fully human, and often very productive contributors to society?

Despicable attitude.

Apartheid? Are you for real?

You need to seriously reflect on what you have said here.

If you close schools then parents also can't work and loose money and furlough and lockdowns will have to come back
I have heard of some schools having classes that they have put on remote learning but seems to be schools decision
Also many professions are also exposed daily still , supermarket staff , nhs , shop workers , poilce , security guards etc
I think i have read plan is 12-15 may be able to book online jabs soon that will help a little

@Babybellblue

The simple fact remains that the government is not going to close schools again, this is obvious in the new rhetoric given by Boris Johnson. All the woe is me and anger will not change that. I agree that its an individuals responsibility to assess their own their own personal risk and make decisions accordingly. I think many have lived in a safe bubble for so long that the reality of this virus has sent their worlds into a spin. The government cannot protect everyone. It's a harsh cold fact but it is reality now.

Nah! Boris is full of bs. He said he d leave the bodies pile high before he’d have another lockdown, and yet... he had another lockdown. You can bray all you want. Braying at the virus doesn’t help! The virus brays back. Uk is headed for restrictions and possibly another lockdown. And I’d say Ireland’s not far behind.

Genuinely I wish this wasn’t so. But there has been a sentiment of “it’s over now, back to normal” after each and every wave of this. And the virus has just laughed and multiplied. I wish to god we could have built on the hard work and suffering of people during those lockdowns.... put in place sensible measures for the medium term, made schools safer, etc etc. Instead we had freedom Friday and lifting mask mandates. All for the people that bray.

And the virus brayed back and multiplied and here we are.

Ps I love education. I hate lockdowns. My mental health has suffered. My hours have been cut at work to a point where I’m basically unemployed. I hate all this. But my hating it doesn’t do a blind bit to change how the virus spreads. It is my behaviour that can effect how the virus spreads (or doesn’t).

The OP was talking about a class moving onto online learning due to almost 50% of the children testing positive, not the whole school!
Of course it's the most sensible idea.
Some people on here really can't hide the disdain they have for teachers, tying themselves up in knots as to why school staff shouldn't be offered the booster, even though it would ultimately help keep schools open.

Of course it should be.

All the people saying otherwise are part of the issue

@HalfwomanHalfcookie I think prob too early for many school staff to have the booster , doesn't it need to be 6 months from last dose ? I would imagine only a small number fall into this category of teachers
I have read nhs staff and social workers can book boosters , but it annoys me in some ways as my sil is a social worker yet she is office / wfh based but will be entitled to a booster , same as some wfh nhs to me needs to be those face to face first whatever profession and by age or risk factors

Yes probably worried, but a few comments on here suggesting they shouldn't be offered it tells us the opinion of some.

They should absolutely be keeping themselves separate from anybody who is CEV. The problems are arising because teachers (and others) are mixing with people who are CEV.

If the CEV group kept themselves separate, schools can operate as normal, with no need for the 10 day isolation policy.

So how long do my dc and I need to live separately? And where should I live?

@PastMyBestBeforeDate

They should absolutely be keeping themselves separate from anybody who is CEV. The problems are arising because teachers (and others) are mixing with people who are CEV.

If the CEV group kept themselves separate, schools can operate as normal, with no need for the 10 day isolation policy.

So how long do my dc and I need to live separately? And where should I live?

I’m honestly so sorry that covid exists, and that it will seriously curtail your life options, but when there are only 600k odd people in your situation, it’s just not reasonable to expect the other 66 million or so to sacrifice so much for you.

I’m so glad that most people seem to understand that the indicator of a good, tolerant and progressive society is how it treats its vulnerable.

I didn't say they had to
You blithely chuck out glib impractical advice that I'm asking how to follow?

Honestly don’t know what the point of this is. When will we reach a stage where everyone stops running and hiding from this virus? Low mortality rate with average death of 82. We need to get over it now.

@Hemingwayscats - I’ll pass your comments onto my friends who are having the funeral service today for their 54 year old father. Healthy until he caught Covid. Should they just get over it?

My point is that it is not reasonable for you to rely in the actions/inactions of others to facilitate your life.

If you don’t want to catch Covid, no problem, but you need to be the one to take the necessary steps/precautions to create that outcome, not expect others to do it for you or indeed tell you what you should do.

[quote Parker231]@Hemingwayscats - I’ll pass your comments onto my friends who are having the funeral service today for their 54 year old father. Healthy until he caught Covid. Should they just get over it?[/quote]
What alternative is there?

They will have to get over it, just as we all have to get over all the horrible, unfair, untimely bereavements that happen every day from a whole range of causes.

People claim masks don't work but in my daughter's school where masks are mandatory and are well enforced, there was one child in the class who had covid and not a single other child caught it.

[quote julieca]@ImUninsultable you are accusing things that no one is saying. Yes if a classroom has so many pupils ill it is riddled with covid, it should temporarily close. That is all the OP is saying.
You are being a bit hysterical.[/quote]
Not much point though once more than half have got it.

@SheikhMaraca - perhaps if social distancing, mask wearing and better safety in schools and workplaces had remained mandatory he wouldn’t have caught it.
His death was totally unnecessary so I don’t think they will get over it. The U.K. government and population have handled Covid so badly.

Quite. I hope all of those shrieking about living with it enjoy this coming winter.

Yep. "Living with it" doesn't mean ignoring it completely. This far down the line, I can't believe people still don't understand the issues and how they can be mitigated.

Again I'm not asking that. I'm just asking you to clarify your instruction to separate myself from my dc.

[quote Parker231]@SheikhMaraca - perhaps if social distancing, mask wearing and better safety in schools and workplaces had remained mandatory he wouldn’t have caught it.
His death was totally unnecessary so I don’t think they will get over it. The U.K. government and population have handled Covid so badly.[/quote]
But if this virus hadn't originated many would have lived their normal life's and died from another risk of life. A car accident etc. Life involves Risk. We never know when or how we will die or what of. Life is a gamble. Nobody has a guaranteed pass to live. No human can be that privileged. Some people cannot get their head around this.

Thankfully real life is more sympathetic to unnecessary Covid deaths than posters on Mn.
@SheikhMaraca - there is nothing realistic about your posts - just heartless