To think school is trying to give all the student covid?

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I just can't think of any other reason why they thought it was a good idea to put the entire schools worth of children and teachers (nursery to year 6) in a room together. This was last Friday, when the day previous we had over 150,000 positive covid cases. Who makes that decision?

DD is now showing symptoms.

Yep. That’s definitely what they were aiming for. They’ve got this far in the pandemic and then gone “fuck it. Stick them all in the hall and let’s see how many we can infect.”

YANBU My kids secondary has started having assemblies again just to make sure it gets every last one of them.

My friends school did the same last week. Primary kids all crammed together into the hall with no distancing for an extended hour long assembly.
I wonder if this is a thing now.

But if our children aren’t vaccinated it’s only a matter of time til they get it. That’s how viruses work. If you DD doesn’t get it now when are you happy for her to get it? Because she will at some point

Well my kids are part vaccinated as are a lot of secondary school kids and I think it would be quite nice if they waited until they got their second vaccination before going back to 600 in a room - that's only 1 month away. Yes, some are going to get it in the next few weeks (ds2 did) but ds1 has GCSES in a few months and could really do without another q0 days off school or his teachers being off .

Good point, would be good if they could get their second vaccines. But in primaries there is no point trying to keep them apart really, this virus finds the unvaccinated

If lots of staff are isolating it would be easier for the school if lots of children catch it and have to stay at home as well.

Why did they do that? What a stupid thing to do.

Unless you were in the room you can’t assume there wasn’t social distancing in place to ensure each bubble was in a separate part of the hall. There was likely a risk assessment in place.

That said, most unvaccinated primary age kids kids are probably going to get it at some point and I can see that in some ways it makes sense to have the whole school get it together and then be done with it, rather than to have 2/3 kids in each class out of school each week plus the teachers all going off at different times for the rest of the term. It’ll be far less disruptive on learning overall to have the majority of the school off together as then at least there hopefully won’t be many more absences over the rest of the term.

Because the children are mixing anyway. And their mental health suffers when they don't get together for assemblies

Yikes. Sons school have decided virtual assemblies are the way to go from now on even eventually in a post covid world. HT says much less disruption keeping kids in form rooms, kids are actually speaking up as they are way more comfortable in classroom.