DCs school has coronavirus and they’re not shutting the school!?

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My DCs school has had a confirmed case of coronavirus. One of their teachers who has been in school and has taught both DC this week!!!
School isn’t shutting! The DCs have been given information about the virus and symptoms to look out for.
This is really scaring me! Any of those DCs and other teachers could have it. Any of them could have gone home and passed it onto parents/grandparents/people who go to the same clubs in the community! I know it doesn’t really affect children as much as adults but doesn’t mean they can’t be carriers. We’re not exactly talking young children either. Both my DCs are teenagers.

Debating keeping the DC off school for the next 2 weeks? Am I overreacting!?

If there are enough of us we can just tell them to whistle for fines, our kids come first.

Which school?

Or have you been told by officials not to declare it?

School have said that if they feel unwell then they must stay off school. (Might just use this excuse).

It was earlier on in the day. I’ve debated it in my head and with DH (and even the DC because they wanted to know what was going on) for the last few hours. I’ve gone from “we’re all over reacting” to “it’s going to kill us all” to “we might get it but we’ll be alright” a million times.

Yes, I’m quite happy to name and shame. It’s been on the news anyways.
Trinity School in Carlisle.

@Jerseygaly I’ve PM’d you

Tories are hoping the virus will kill off a huge amount of the vulnerable and elderly

I've read a lot of rubbish on MN over the years but this tops the lot

Well the children are less affected, maybe it makes sense to keep off a chid with health conditions and maybe not let the other children attending see elderly or people with health conditions for a while?

Does that not seem like a sensible approach?

I don't understand this whole thing - on the one hand it's on the news non fucking stop and it's a pandemic and it's a huge issue etc but on the other hand if a teacher, who will have had contact with dozens and dozens of students and other colleagues, gets it, it's just business as usual, just look out for symptoms?

Am I missing something here?

I think that seems like a very sensible approach @Orangeblossom78

I've just read about this on Guardian live news page. If it's the same school - they're not going to deep clean it.

Why????

Wow. The government are so determined to keep schools open aren’t they? I doubt they’ll shut any. We all know that this virus can be transmitted before symptoms and we know it lives on surfaces for a long time. Yet it’s low risk and the school stays open? Just look out for symptoms! Maybe it’s too late then...

Exactly my thoughts @LambriniSocialist. It makes absolutely no sense!
Given advice to avoid X,Y and Z from one direction and send your children to an infected school in the other direction. I just can’t understand it!

37m ago 18:51

Kevin Rawlinson

Back here in the UK, a school in north-west London has had a Covid-19 case confirmed but health officials have said there’s no need for it to close, nor for any staff or pupils to be put into quarantine, Kevin Rawlinson reports.

Hatch End high school has published a letter from its headteacher confirming a person at the school has tested positive, though it did not say whether they are staff or a puil.”

The person was last in school on Friday 6 March. PHE have conducted a risk assessment and advised us that no staff or pupils need to exclude themselves from school.”

A group of pupils and a small number of staff members have been asked to monitor themselves for symptoms, for a period of 14 days (until 20th March). No one in this group has been asked to exclude themselves from school if they are well.”

A note on its website added: “Given the specifics of this case they have determined that a deep clean of the school is not required.”

I’d deffo keep mine off

Please don’t name the school on here, op. You’re whipping up hysteria to no good end.

Tories are hoping the virus will kill off a huge amount of the vulnerable and elderly

What? every single member of the Conservative party and everyone who votes for them? What an unbelievablely stupid comment, has some kind of virus affected your brain?

Interesting that we’re not the only school to have been affected and the same avdice given by the sounds of it.

For anyone who’s interested and wants more information about the advice schools with confirmed cases are giving out this is what our school have said
trinity.cumbria.sch.uk/coronavirus-update/

@jersygaly

There's already a petition its linked on the the concerned about covid threads asking them to shut schools.

Given advice to avoid X,Y and Z from one direction and send your children to an infected school in the other direction. I just can’t understand it!

Yes, they are saying that there might need to be 'social distancing measures' in the near future etc in the UK, we need to delay the peak, flights to Italy have been stopped and the country is in lockdown, but we can send hundreds of children to a school with a confirmed case?

I get why they aren't closing schools across the country and don't want to much social upheaval if they can help it? But to not even close one school, even if it has a confirmed case?

Either coronavirus is bad or it isn't!

@Thisismytimetoshine I don’t think it really matters where or not I name the school. It’s been all over the news and social media. There was even someone from public health England on the news talking about it and naming the school. The hysteria is already out there. If it hadn’t already been publicised to the whole country I wouldn’t have. But the damage had already been done unfortunately.

OP hasn't named the school has she?

And she's not whipping up hysteria. Why do you suggest that Thisismytime?

Op that's utterly bonkers.

I'd keep my dc off school.

Ask for risk assessment!

Take them out. Disgusting.

She has, @Dusty01

@Dusty01, I’ve named it. I’ve given the link to the advice the school gave incase others wanted to know the advice that was being given to schools. If it’s a real problem I can ask for it to be removed?

So what if she has named the school?

Absolutely would keep mine at home under the circs. My dd has an auto immune condition too. I can’t believe the school is open ! Totally irresponsible, everyone could get ill and infect the wider community. It would be bizarre if the teacher had not passed it on at all, given how contagious it is.

Bloody hell thats crazy!

I'd be taking mine out for sure.