This is why I won't be sending my children back to school

[softjellycell]

1 primary school teacher tests positive for corona virus
18 children have come into contact with the virus
18 key workers have to stop work
30 teaching colleagues have to stop work and self isolate.
Key worker children no longer have any provision at that school.
Bristol May 14th 2020.

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-coronavirus-updates-bristol-teacher-4135096

I thought the idea was though that pupils and teachers will have access to tests?

Good for you. You don't need to announce it publically though. And if you really felt it was so important we know your plans, you could have posted on the multiple threads that share your title.

Agree with you OP. My son is not in the proposed 1st batch to test primary school returns so would probably only get a few weeks before summer break, seems pointless to me. I'll keep him home and teach him here. He's cool with it.

I thought the idea was though that pupils and teachers will have access to tests?

They aren't available instantly, nor are the results.

@nocasetoanswer As a parent if I want to start my own thread I will - or is that limited to the teacher bashers out there?

I hear you! The situation is so poorly thought out.

Oh you're a teacher? So that's why you've started yet another thread hoping for a bunfight?

Everyone will be making their own decision, in the best interests of them and their families. Trying to guilt people into making different decisions is not helpful. Being hysterical (on either side of the argument) is not helpful.
Schools will open if it is deemed safe to do so. Our school has said that they will only open if they can put the appropriate plans in place.
If your school opens, it’s your decision as to whether to send them or not. No need to shout about that decision, no need to try and convince people to make the same decision as you. Quite frankly, most people don’t really care what other people are doing.
Glad you’ve made your decision OP.

If there's now a reliable antibody test it would make sense to start testing teachers/school staff and kids in the year groups who really need to get back into school. Those with antibodies could go back.

It's not just medical staff who need testing.

They could also restart dentistry if they get people tested before they go in for appointments - both antibodies and tests to see if you have covid now.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/16/french-boy-dies-from-coronavirus-linked-kawasaki-diseaese

@NoCaseToAnswer I said: As a parent

How do you manage to make up get Oh you're a teacher?

from that?

I'm a parent. I am not a teacher. Is that easy enough for you to understand?

Sorry that link doesn’t work. Hopefully this will www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/16/french-boy-dies-from-coronavirus-linked-kawasaki-diseae

Crack on then. Withdraw your school place, stay home on no pay and homeschool. Best of luck to you.

I'm still sending mine.

Reading the whole article, a teenager in London has died too - and over 100 in France have this.

@softjellycell what's your better idea about how/when schools should reopen?
I'm not saying I'm in love with the idea but I'm not sure what a reasonable alternative is.

“NoCaseToAnswer

Good for you. You don't need to announce it publically though. And if you really felt it was so important we know your plans, you could have posted on the multiple threads that share your title”

And why do you feel you need to open her thread and then announce your opinion on how and what someone else should be posting?

We don’t really need to know how you feel about this either so you should stop posting your thoughts.

Oh wait. That’s how this forum works. So maybe step down from your little soap box and just scroll on by, eh?

I sometimes get the feeling that those who aren’t planning to send their children back (which is fine, completely their decision) don’t want others to send theirs back as they’ll worry that other kids are getting something that theirs aren’t.
I haven’t decided what I’m going to do yet. Still weighing it up. However I’ve noticed that those who do plan to send them back aren’t plastering their decisions everywhere and trying to persuade everyone else to do exactly what they’re doing. They’re just getting on with it.

A teenager committed suicide recently over this. Other young persons also. 2 children were murdered in their homes during UK lockdown vs 2 children died with covid. Many more women murdered. We need to look at this bigger picture.

100 children in France with novel Kawasaki like illness. How many hungry, beaten, raped, with no respite? Doubt it's less than 100.

Drivingdownthe101

You've hit the nail on the head, unfortunately.
Otherwise they would simply withdraw the kids and homeschool, rather than campaigning for schools to remain closed for all.

The government model (at the minute) works in ‘pods’

1 adult to 15 children. Pods do not mix. 1 person in pod 1 becomes ill, then pod 1 goes home to isolate. No other children or adults will have been in contact with that pod so they won’t be at risk from pod 1.

This will be the same model used regardless as to wheather you are a key worker or child in EYFS, yr 1 or yr6.

Obviously if you have a key worker child in yr 6 (for example) their pod will be made up of other year 6 pupils rather than a mixture of year groups.

Key worker kids will be at no greater or lesser risk if people choose to keep their EYFS, yr 1 and yr6 pupils at home.

@NoCaseToAnswer You do understand what a discussion forum is?

@Drivingdownthe101 Completely agree.

Just on the original point though, the plan at our school is that the key workers children will be segregated from the others (in the same bubbles they’re currently in) to avoid everyone having to self isolate it there are symptoms. If anyone else develops symptoms, their pod has to isolate, not the whole school.

Why are 18 key workers needing to be off work? (Presumably you are talking about schools opening to all)

ponty there's no need to post so many times with your scaremongering. Your child is more likely to in hundreds of other ways. The kawasaki type condition is not a reason to keep schools closed.

so as long as Covid is around, your theoretical scenario is possible. I can only assume you will keep them off until we have a vaccine.

Good for you if you have such a cushy life that you don't have to get out to work to put food on the table for the foreseeable future. No need to announce it on MN though.