Would you pulll your school up over this?

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Just found out that the child who sits next to my son at school has/had CV. I asked the school if this was the case and was told they had not heard and if they did, they would inform me immediately. I have now found out that the day after this conversation the DC's mum had broadcast it all over her FB to hundreds of her friends and kept them informed ever since. My DC's teacher isolated themselves coincidentally on this day and so I am wondering if the school was informed the same time as all her contacts on FB. I have only just found out about this. Also, coincidentally, all the DC's friends were removed form school.

AIBU to be really fuming about this?

the DC's mum had broadcast it all over her FB to hundreds of her friends and kept them informed ever since

She’s almost certainly lying/being a DramaLlama. How does she know? Is he in ITU? We had the same at our school - a parent telling her friends she ‘definitely had it’ but when we (at school) contacted her she said she “had all the symptoms” but hadn’t been tested (whilst continuing to tell her friends that she had)

In the end we just pointed out to her friends that the official figure for our area was 2, and did they really think she was one of them?

Yep, unless in hospital they wouldn't know. You're being paranoid thinking the school knew and hid it.

YABU

Nobody knows if the child in question has/had it, because as PP said, unless they are in ICU they won't have been tested. Children's symptoms are usually very mild.

Two weeks ago the world was a different place. My bet is, then, when the schools were still open, if you had been told to isolate your whole family for 14 days because a child in the class had a slight cough, you would have been fuming about that instead.

The school is now closed and has been for a week for this very reason- so action has been decisively taken. You are going to make yourself look batshit by complaining about who your child sat next to, during an unprecedented period of upheaval and stress, over a week ago.

You're relying on gossip. Where's the proof that he had CV ?

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There is a scientific study, which uses statistical modelling to ascertain potentially half of us could already have or have had it. Of course it’s only a theory. However, it is entirely possible this woman has had cv. Seeing as she wasn’t tested, you cannot make the call that she didn’t. Most people have very mild symptoms, often none at all. It’s people with the attitude of oh, it’s nothing or ignored the symptoms, who have spread the disease and are far more dangerous than her.

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YANBU. How long ago did she say symptoms started?

Incidentally Dds very large secondary school reported that they had had no incidents of cv the day before the decision was taken to close them. I was spitting chips as I’d pulled dd out of school to self isolate due to my symptoms. I wrote to the head to voice my concern that the simply couldn’t make that call and we were si.

You and your children were probably exposed to it already so there is no value in getting angry about this one child.

Yabu. Tons of people have broadcast they, their kids, their mum, their mums sisters uncle beat mate has it.

More often than not, there no proof. Some cases the person has been in hospital and its turned out the test was negative.

Most dont even go to hospital despite the person broadcasting it saying they are deaths door.

One woman complained the hospital had asked her to take the post down saying her grandson had confirmed CV. She said it was proof there was a cover up. Actually turned out she was asked to take it down because it wasnt true and wasnt confirmed CV. The test came back negative .

A school bit be ridiculous to to take someone ranting on FB as proof or confirmation.

Act like everyone could potentially have it.

Diagnosed over the phone but not tested in hospital. The whole family have it. I am probably not going to say anything now but am mad that I am last to know and all her DC's friends got pulled out and the teacher even went into self isolation, although I am making the assumption it was about this. If you can tell hundreds of your FB friends, you should really let your DC's classmates also know out of courtesy to protect themselves. One of the DC in our class has a family member having chemo.

There is not such thing as diagnosed over the phone. You can be told that is sounds like covid 19 but only patients admitted to hospital have been diagnosed.

You can't diagnose over the phone

You also have no idea why the teacher really self isolated

My issue @Mummyoflittledragon wasn’t that she might have had it, it was that she told her friends she had been tested and had it, which she hadn’t.

This is the second thread I've read that mentions being diagnosed over the phone.
If that was a reliable thing why scientissts trying to find a testing kit that works reliably?

A Facebook friend of mine posted that she had it then two days later was out playing with her children and saying maybe she had a bad cold.

I wouldn't bother the school with it, what good will it do?

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Oh I see. That’s not what I got from your post. Totally agree with you there!

Diagnosed over the phone means:
Kid has sore throat
Mum rings the non emergency number
They say sore throat is a symptom, self isolate.

If the teacher and all the kids except yours suddenly disappeared, did you not wonder why?

Diagnosed over the phone but not tested in hospital. The whole family have it.

Have what. Who diagnosed her over the phone.

There is not one shared of proof what she has is covid

I would say with a lot of confidence that the Mum did not tell school any such thing.

Because that's why I'm at home hopefully just getting over the tail end of it myself.

So, you want to go to the school and "pull them up" over not mentioning this to you, based on a whole load of guesses? You don't know why the teacher self-isolated. You don't know other children were removed from school. You don't know what, if anything, was said to the school by the mum. You don't know if the child even has it.

But sure. Blame the school. It's their fault.

I wouldn't "pull school up" about anything at the moment. We are having to educate children at home by whatever means we can manage, we are having to go in to babysit keyworker children, often while having our children in childcare somewhere else, we don't get a priority shopping time at the supermarkets so are struggling to get food as well as work due to queuing times.
I want nothing more than to be able to stay at home with my children and husband and keep us safe. That is no more an option for us than it is for NHS workers or anybody truly vital to the fight. But we are the only ones getting hassled for not doing enough.

Ok fair enough. Not going to waste schools time over it. at mum though.

When I phoned 111 as dd has cough and 40 temp which is now on week 3 but phoned on week 2 they said suspected coronavirus.
But yes they will treat all people with cough/ temp or both as coronavirus.