I told the school...

[WouldShouldCould]

... Reason for absence is high temp, sweating , sore throat and dry cough. All true although I'm fairly confident it's a bug and not covid-19. But they haven't contacted me to at least find out if we have been abroad, in fact they haven't contacted me at all. I find this concerning, do you?

infected children often have a cough, nasal congestion, runny nose, diarrhoea and a headache.

only half get the fever. The symptoms are different in children than adults.

. If my kid had it they could have infected half the school.

In which case Public Health England would be in contact with the school and advising them what to do.

Wow the op is getting a hard time. I think most people on here have completely misunderstood her point

Agreed. I don't really have any strong feelings on what a school SHOULD be doing, but I would find it surprising, given current events, that they wouldn't say "hang on, have you called 111?" to a parent saying their child has the EXACT symptoms of covid19.

Lots of parents are really dumb, remember.

Oh I think we should blame schools for not taking Coronavirus seriously enough - it’ll be all our fault if it spreads.

I think we’re also totally responsible for climate change, Brexit and austerity.

And your child being badly behaved.

Much easier just to blame us for everything. Keeps things neat.

no - I am sorry but I think they are assuming that you are a responsible adult and if there is a chance you think it was coronavirus you would mention it rather than expect them to check.

It is not up to the school to diagnose your child. If you rang and said potential cv then the school would listen. All the symptoms you listed, children have been having those all winter, I would say it’s up to you to voice your concern if you think you’ve been affected.
Office staff are not psychic. There has to be a level of responsibility for the parents.

I've never seen sore throat listed as a symptom of Covid-19.

Funnily enough, my school today did exactly what the OP wanted. Head of year phoned when I kept my DD off today to find out whether I had phoned 111. This is because they knew we had travelled during half term, but didn't know where we had travelled (as it happened Brazil, South America). Told them I hadn't because hadn't been at a particularly risky area. Of course it still might be corona virus, but if it is, then DD has caught it from general contagion in England, as there is no specific risky place she has been. At the moment they are not telling us to phone 111 for that, and obviously if too many do, it will overwhelm and make it harder to access the service for those more at risk. Most likely just a normal cold with mild temperature (37.6). Head of year sounded very apologetic to ask. I thought it was perfectly reasonable, just we hadn't been any of the places he thought we might have been.

I agree. Attention seeking. I hope you’ve not embarrassed yourself locally by criticising the school.

I hope your DC gets well soon.

I think you've been given a hard time OP. I don't know any school that I've been involved with that wouldn't have given you a friendly call back. Blimey.

So you let them know the symptoms but expect them to call you back to check if it’s the virus. Surely you would be telling then if you thought that it was the virus along with advising if you’d been in an infected area or near someone with the virus. Take some responsibility!

Speak to 111, that is the govt advice - it's not up to the school to follow up every bloody cough or cold every kid has.

I mean, I take it YOU know if you've been abroad?

OP still getting a hard time over something she didnt even say.

I've noticed on mn if anyone asks a question regarding a school, theres a flurry of comments from angry defensive teachers who misinterpret the comment

That’s because most people can see that the criticism is ridiculous.

If you thought the school needed to know you’d say. FGS you’d say simply because it’s a building full of bloody kids.

And then there’s the type that send in kids with D&V which i suppose bombs my comment. —bitter experience today of comforting a little Petri dish that was sick as a parrot yesterday—

Because teachers have 80000 million things to do.

My suggestion is, you take responsibility for your family and let teachers get on with the other 80009 things they've got to do.

A pupil rang their mum today - in class - because I raised my eyebrows at them. If I'm not allowed to raise my eyebrows I'm certainly not going to sift through my twenty million absence emails to check for Covid 19 symptoms. Fuck sake.

The way I read it was op was asking if the school should have recognised a potential coronavirus risk to all students and staff

It’s not just teachers Tony, at least the Science dept could have a punt at the virus element

Meanwhile the Support Staff are all frantically boning up as professional epidemiologists as their latest skill set.

Entitled much OP?!

This is not the schools job to diagnose. If you are at risk, call 111.

Obviously you are one of the 14% who thinks school should teach your child to speak.

Imagine how offended some parents would be, and worried, if school asked that straight out OP! It'll be your responsibility to tell them not the other way around.

TSSDNCOP 😁 or doing a great side line in black market hand sanitiser.

@WouldShouldCould
I would have informed the school but do you really believe all parents would??

You "would have" meaning you didn't I take it? and then you go on to suggest that other parents won't inform the school.... like you didn't then?
Are you accusing others of not doing something that you haven't done yourself either?
I'm confused now.

You know, despite covid-19, people also get good old fashioned stinking colds.

I think people are being unnecessarily hard, OP.

I suspect if we want to get on top of this we should be being much less laissez-faire as a nation. I’d have thought whoever took the call could have at least said to phone 111 and keep them informed.

OP doesn’t sound stupid but many parents will not be well educated on what to do and a simple sentence with next steps and to tell the school if there are any further developments might go a long way to protecting others.

Have the school office staff done 6 years of medical training at university? No? Then you know the answer don’t you?

I feel sorry for teachers, they are there to educate, they are not doctors but now days people blame schools for obesity, teenage pregnancy, bad manners and lack of respect, surely it is up to the parents to educate their children and take responsibility for how they turn out ( assuming they can put their phones down...)