AIBU to think someone needs to review the Covid Policy

[MancLass76]

Had an email from child’s school (primary) this week advising of rising covid cases and asking parents to LFT children (and parents) if are being sick, have cold symptoms or a headache as per Local Authority and Government guidance. That’s after months and months of reinforcing that ‘primary age children shouldn’t undergo an LFT’.
Everyone in our house has a snotty nose permanently and I already dread every call from school but besides that I’ve spent all day trying to order some LFTs (in case) to no avail. I don’t doubt there will be plenty of households stockpiling tests and what happens next week when LFTs and PCRs stop being free?!? AIBU to think policies and practices need to catch up to this notion of ‘living with covid’ so schools can get prepared and start communicating now to parents and carers? Or AIBU (a tad crazy) to think with rising cases all the planned changes around testing next week will still actually go ahead??

YABU as if school staff catch covid then they may have to shut classes. 35% of my school staff currently off with Covid and 2 year groups shut. Schools don’t have any money to get supply staff in as it’s all been overspent on catch up programs and pupil wellbeing. This is why policy for schools is different than for everyone else

We are the same, ever increasing numbers of pupils and staff off with covid, even the triple vaccinated. And it's not just staff with a " bad cold" but ones completely wiped out for over a week. We can't get supply staff for love nor money and have had to go back into bubbles on LA advice due to increasing numbers. We know it is difficult to get LFTs, we can't get any ourselves. But the alternative is it runs rife and start shutting classes.

Really sorry, my post maybe doesn’t show that I do completely sympathise and empathise with schools, am actually on the PTA so know how difficult the funding situation can be in general and def don’t want to have my 2 back homeschooling, it’s more a question of school policy saying one thing and national policy/practice saying (or about the say) the opposite with the removal of free testing and this ‘living with covid’ idea that can’t work in settings such as education and healthcare for example. My work has already removed extended/flexible working hours to compensate for having child care responsibilities and removed special leave for all covid related absences. This all leaves schools and parents in a confusing middle place and as per usual will likely most affect those families already struggling the most financially and/or mentally.