Schiol parents- Please keep your children at home if you suspect covid!

[TeenyQueen]

Rant-
I'm a pregnant SEN teacher and I've just tested positive for covid, after spending the week in a small classroom with 3 children that tested positive on Thursday. Another child was sent to school, on a shared transport bus, even though the mum and a sibling both had covid. Another child was sent to school with symptoms and both the child and mum have now tested positive.

My class has two teachers, we've both tested positive today. Fortunately we're all double vaccinated and boosted, but I'm heavily pregnant and asthmatic and currently feeling very unwell.

I know for a fact that some parents send their children to school even when they display symptoms because keeping them at home is inconvenient. Well good luck sending them to school now because we will have no staff to teach them!

I also wish that parents were honest about testing their children. Many of mine have very challenging behaviours so I seriously doubt that they are being tested, even when the parents say they have done it.

I just hope that the baby and I will be ok. I also have to self isolate away from my DH and little toddler to protect them, which is breaking my heart 😢.

@arethereanyleftatall

If you and another family member had tested positive would you knowingly and willingly send an unvaccinated and untested child to school whilst she/he was showing symptoms? Wouldn't you at least do an lft, and if you couldn't do that would you ignore school guidance and still send him/her to school?

@Cam2020

I'm sorry you have covid and you and bandy are ok, but that's the guidance they haven't done anything wrong.

And you've chosen to have a baby during a pandemic, knowing yours is not a WFH job. Routine is especially important for many children with SEN and many parents of SEN children find isolating especially difficult. Surely you know this?

Are you seriously suggesting OP shouldn’t have a baby so as not to distress her students?

Are you for real? That’s fucking ridiculius!

Are you seriously suggesting OP shouldn’t have a baby so as not to distress her students?

Are you for real? That’s fucking ridiculius!

No, I'm saying she chose to have a child during an ongoing pandemic, knowing she's a teacher of SEN children's and there's a chance she might catch it.

Is that really that hard to grasp?

I would do an lft, yes.

But your initial complaint was that all pupils who have a covid positive family member, should not be in your school. (Unlike your dh, who is allowed to go to work, because that's different).
Regarding the child on the bus, the only thing you said was that they had a family member who was positive and thus shouldn't be at school.
It's only now that you're saying they did no tests, and were showing symptoms.

@TeenyQueen I can't answer for anyone else, but if I had a job that couldn't be done from home with a child and I couldn't afford to take time off, or my child had already missed a detrimental amount of education, or especially in the case of a sen school the disruption to routine was causing them severe distress, then yes I would.
A bit like if my partner was a dentist and I was a pregnant teacher, we'd continue to work because we would presumably need the money, rather than taking ssp and staying at home.

It's odd how the greater good always seems to involve demanding everyone else makes sacrifices for your benefit. How convenient.

Schools are not going mad. They request that families follow the guidelines that have been set by people NOT dealing/coping with pupils with family members suffering with covid. If negative kids don't come in that is down as unauthorised and increases in a schools attendance is scrutinised by people from LA OFSTED government etc. So schools get it in the neck from parents when they say they should be in and "officialdom" if they're not!
Our school would prefer they weren't in but can't actually state that!

Whatever the rights and wrongs they've not done anything wrong. I wouldn't keep my son home if someone had it in our house.
You can't get annoyed at people for following the rules.