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

@QuestionableMouse that is not the guidance at all. It says after a positive test children can return after 3 days. It doesn't say about symptoms.

That's not even the guidance either. The 3/5 days iso is only with a pos test. If there's no test done they just go back as soon as they're well enough

No it's not three days with no symptoms its this --> "After 3 days, if they feel well and do not have a high temperature"

So a snotty nose is fine.

yes, there are many many people who seem to be ignoring it totally.

Its 3/5 days from a positive test if you have no temperature.

@Believeitornot but mist countries have very similar rules now

@PerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior we were also spoken to about da attendance during covid and only time he had off wAs 10 days covid isolation , well about 6 were college days , and couple other days where he had to have covid test due to close contact and rules being negative test
I asked them what they expected is to of done seeing as we were following legal guidelines and i just got a spiel about attendance and attainment , you can't win

@TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination you do realise that many work places insist you go in if well even if positive don't you ?
Some people seem to not realise what is going on out there
I would imagine we are near people with covid regularly now , if you go anywhere

There is a good chance the teacher will get it. If you are happy for your child’s education to be disrupted, then crack on.

Or protect everyone, and keep him at home.

Yes but they didn’t at first. They had protections in place for longer…..
It wouldn’t bother me quite so much if we had decent mitigations in place such as investment in ventilation.

Not directing this at you OP but the selfishness of a few posters is staggering.

Knowingly sending a symptomatic positive kid to school could literally kill an immunocompromised child or teacher. Its absolutely disgusting that someone said they would without giving it a second thought. It beggars belief people could be that stupid.

Woooooooaaaaahhh???? What? You want to send him in with COVID 🤷 please don't. So then then the whole class and eventually year and eventually school will get it. Thanks

The official advice is meaningless now. It is written assuming everyone who comes into contact with a positive covid case will have a mild sniffle as a worst case scenario.

I work with vulnerable people and treat covid with the seriousness it deserves. We do not follow government guidelines in our work because frankly we don’t want to be responsible for making the people we support seriously ill

I also know plenty of people who have had ongoing problems from covid who are not vulnerable - including my very fit and healthy young adult son who has had two hospital admissions in 6 months due to ongoing issues related to a ‘mild’ covid infection.

So if you know your child has covid, don’t be a dick, keep them off.

This will go against most of the other comments but I work in a primary school and the rule in ours now is that if someone feels unwell (has a temp etc) then they need to stay off but as soon as they feel better they can come in regardless of if they are positive or not. It's the same for staff and children.

If you know a child is positive for any illness that can be spread of course they should be kept out. People talking about the guidelines and advice re Covid over the two years seem to have forgotten common sense!!!

Thank you for this. I really appreciate the people who continue to take care where my vulnerable daughter is concerned and I’m sure the people you work with do too. 💐

Surely teachers are not going to school with covid? 😧 I hope they’d consider the circumstances of their students before doing this.

Of course they are. The vast majority of people are going about their business as long as they feel able to do so. Very few people are isolating anymore, even for a day or two.

You probably come into contact with a lot of covid positive people, you just won’t realise it.

When I read threads like this I'm so glad I don't live in the UK.

We had a similar situation recently. Fever and cold symptoms but wasn't sure whether to test, as DC would have missed a group holiday if it was Covid (wouldn't have felt I could have sent them, knowing it was Covid.

In the end, we did test, it wasn't Covid, and they went on the holiday - with a horrendous cold, which they gave to all their friends.
I'm not sure why that felt ok but sharing Covid didn't.

In the end, we did test, it wasn't Covid, and they went on the holiday - with a horrendous cold, which they gave to all their friends.
I'm not sure why that felt ok but sharing Covid didn't.

I think for me the answer to this is that a cold really isn’t likely to have any lingering effects. I mean a cold is a cold - unless someone is very vulnerable then even the worst cold isn’t likely to mean more than a day in bed and a week of feeling grim.
Whereas covid a) can affect the entire body, not just the respiratory system and b) can have after effects even for healthy people - lots of anecdotes on this thread, lots of data elsewhere.

My friend died of covid after his son brought it home from school. No pre existing vulnerabilities. In his 50s. That wouldn’t happen with a cold.

The second paragraph, however unpalatable, is true. Covid is everywhere now.

I think people who are still testing would in many, perhaps most cases stay off, they're a self selecting group, but that's only going to be a small part of transmission. Teachers like every other group in society will see asymptomatic infection and transmission too.

FFS. I’d really resent being bugged about attendance when the bloody teacher is potentially knowingly infecting my immunosuppressed child.

It’s hypocritical and if there are teachers who do this - I’m going to remain hopeful that this isn’t true - they are failing in their duty of care.

I think it particularly important right now.the end of the vaccine efficacy time limit is up.hence why the vulnerable are going just now for their next vaccine.plus add to this the new vaccine is the FIRST to be made for the omicron variant we need to still be extra cautious if we can.

We don't test anymore so that helps the situation massively but I guess if YOU KNOW he has covid that it's unreasonable to send him in.

I'm with you on this. There aren't many circumstances under which we test any more which avoids this issue. Although I wouldn't send a child in to school that I knew had covid.

The new vaccine for omicron offers no real difference to the previous boosters we’ve had before.

vaccine efficacy is wearing off for us all so many of us who may have unknown underlying conditions could be in trouble if they catch covid.