To send my DC back to school with Covid?

[TheChemicalsAintGotYouBaby]

DS tested positive on Sat, and was still a glaring positive last night.

He's due back at high school tomorrow. V few symptoms apart from a snotty nose, and DH and I seem to have swerved it.

He's desperate not to miss the first day of term, and I'm aware that official guidance means that you no longer have to isolate etc if you test positive, if all reasonable steps (masks, distancing etc) are taken. However, I wouldn't be confident he'd remember to do this (little scatterbrain!)

On the flipside though, I don't want to unleash a new infection that will no doubt spread through the school like wildfire.

WWYD?

YANBU - send him. Covids going nowhere and we need to carry on

YABU - keep him off until he's negative

I think I’ve got covid at the moment - I feel bloody awful. Cough, cold and fatigue. Can’t sleep either which doesn’t help. I’ve depend today and yesterday in bed trying to catch up on some sleep to heal but just can’t sleep.

I took a test on Sunday which was negative but was my first day of symptoms. I need to do another one but I don’t really rate the lateral flows. Heard of so many people getting negative lat flows and positive pcr’s there’s probably no point.

^^this in a nutshell.

The posters who are so adamant that they will go into work with known COVID, and send their children to school are bizarrely treating it as completely different to other infectious illnesses.

Our school rules state if your child has diarrhoea/vomiting that it's 48 hours clear from their last episode before you can send them in. I don't know anyone that has an issue with that - everyone follows this common sense rule. It does mean that for 24 hours at least you might have a totally well child bouncing around the house, but the 48 hour rule keeps everyone protected from infection.

But COVID? The disease that can kill the vulnerable and cause long-term complications in the fit and healthy? Fuck it. No need to stay at home, even with an active infection.....

"Living with COVID" doesn't mean pretending it doesn't exist. It's about taking reasonable measures, just as you would with other infectious illnesses. The selfishness of some people infuriates me.

What are the school's guidelines? Our secondary's guidelines are to send them in unless they're too ill to work, primary's are to keep them home until they are non-symptomatic or testing negative, whichever is sooner. It depends what the school wants.

This ^ My DD (Secondary) had Covid last term and the school said that she could go in provided she had no symptoms. As it happened she had bad cold symptoms and it was a Friday so she just went back in on the Monday. She only tested because we had loads of tests that I'd bought for care home/elderly parent visiting.

My daughters primary school states children can go as long as they feel ok , they send everyone the guidelines . I think it’s silly but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Our school rules state if your child has diarrhoea/vomiting that it's 48 hours clear from their last episode before you can send them in. I don't know anyone that has an issue with that - everyone follows this common sense rule. It does mean that for 24 hours at least you might have a totally well child bouncing around the house, but the 48 hour rule keeps everyone protected from infection.

My DD was sick at school one day, I collected her at lunchtime. By the time we had walked home for 15 min she was totally fine. But knowing schools have a 48 hour rule, I didn't send her in next day.i had a call from school the next morning asking why she wasn't at school (they knew she had been sick - it happened in the school office) I said I kept her off as she had been sick. They said it was fine for her to go in!
I was quite surprised.
Having said that there were plenty of parents I knew at their primary who sent kids to school and other childcare settings after they had been puking all night, ignoring the 48 hour rules that, in those cases, were in place.

Personally I wouldn't do it, only because I know of a child in my DS class who is currently going through treatment that weakens his immune system. I would hate to put him at risk.

Send him, at this point is a cold and we need to move past this.

Mmm, I'm not sure the 48 hour rule is that widely observed tbh. 24 hours perhaps.

Absolutely not! Don't send him to school with Covid to infect other students and teachers (some of which may be vulnerable).

Half my dd's class now have the terrible sick bug after one parent lied to the school and said her ds only had a stomach ache (he actually had rampant d&v).

Be honest and keep your child off school!

Another selfish entitled person..

Clearly you haven't read the thread properly, which is pretty offensive to those of us who were fit, strong and healthy, but have had our lives destroyed by covid. A couple of days off school shouldn't be a big deal in the long run. Covid has cost me all the 'long run' I had before I was ill. It has cost me a year of my life. And from the posts on this thread, I'm not at all alone in the high price I've paid.

Sorry new to this response meant for selfish idiots

He has clear symptoms though, and whilst symptomatic will be spreading it and you don’t want his teachers off for the next 2 weeks if you can help it.

No...keep him at home.

If he feels well enough send him in, if he's not well enough to go, keep him home.

FFS 🤦🏼‍♀️ Of course you don't send him in.

As others have said, ‘living with covid’ doesn’t mean being completely careless. It means schools can stay open, we can see family and go on holiday all the while being careful not to knowingly pass on illness to others - just like before!

I have an immunosuppressed child and it’s hard to reconcile the measures and caution still advised by our consultants and nurses with the cavalier attitude of the general public.

I understood why people struggled with lockdowns and a long period of restrictions. But struggling with a week of disruption when the alternative could be causing others real harm, I don’t get that. 🤷🏼‍♀️

And before anyone uses work, finances, childcare etc as a defence - those are considerations for the people you’d potentially be affecting too.

People who are upset about this are not over dramatic or emotional, just fed up of having to make our vulnerable children/relatives lives smaller so as not to cause any disruption to other people.

Maybe it’s not that deep to you OP and genuinely, I’m sorry if it feels like a pile on. Please try and understand though why it’s so emotive now that it’s been explained.

I’m sure the school would much rather you read their covid and sickness policies than asked random people on the internet.

Only a stupid, brainless, inconsiderate, entitled, selfish bastard would send their child to school in these circumstances.

Yep.

After all we have been through I cannot believe this question has been asked.

I would say that it is better to keep him away from school for his own sake if he has symptoms - even if it were only a common cold those symptoms are a bit rough and it is better to have a couple of days off school and recuperate properly. I think many of us have learned this lesson in the last two years. I am sure your son will not be the only absent person on the first day of school and everyone will be silently thanking you for it.

I'm aware that official guidance means that you no longer have to isolate etc if you test positive, if all reasonable steps (masks, distancing etc) are taken. However, I wouldn't be confident he'd remember to do this (little scatterbrain!)

Don't be so disingenuous. You know that he isn't going to wear a mask or stay 2 metres away from everyone. As if anyone would send their child in with covid and expect them to highlight it in this way to everyone else!

You’ll clearly do whatever you want to. But for what it’s worth - you’re very selfish and I hope you don’t start complaining about your child’s education when teachers and support staff are off.

Well said @SpidersAreShitheads

Why on earth do people keep saying that Covid is ‘a cold’? For SOME people, the symptoms are cold-like. But I don’t know of any colds that have killed c. 6.5 million people in a 2.75 year period.

to all the thickos on this thread it's not just a cold for some, you don't send sick children to school and to the moron who said schools shouldn't have been closed WE DID NOT HAVE ANY VACCINES