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That was quicker than I thought......

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Lostinagoodbook · 31/08/2020 08:27

Child's school opened last week, email about a confirmed case in a child yesterday........ and so it begins. So not brought in by staff having coffee breaks in this instance(can you tell those comments annoyed me lol).

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Delatron · 31/08/2020 10:07

@TeddyIsaHe Apparently it’s a tradition after GCSEs 🙄. Massive group all go together to Zante. How irresponsible at the moment! Then all those other children have a delayed opening. Plus all the siblings who have now been exposed and are going back to schools in the area.

Just heard on the news another plane load coming back from Zante have tested positive on a TUI flight. Must be a growing issue with the Greek islands?

TeddyIsaHe · 31/08/2020 10:09

@lilypotter

Don’t be an arse, I know how absolutely prettified some parents are sending their kids back to school, and teachers/staff that are dreading it. I know it helps some people to hear good news stories rather than doom and gloom all the time.

LilyPotter · 31/08/2020 10:17

I don't think I'm the arse for refusing to believe that it's a "good news story" that your child hasn't happened to have contracted Covid (or anyone in their Nursery has that you are aware of ) when the story has absolutely NO bearing on anyone else's likelihood.

Lemons1571 · 31/08/2020 10:19

I wish they’d take all the yo yo ing into account for years 11 and 13. Rather than just saying exams will continue as normal and you have to make up the 14 weeks of content missed. Surely these years will be massively disadvantaged, particularly in the state sector (bubbles of 200+).

ALLIS0N · 31/08/2020 10:21

Mine have been back for three weeks and no confirmed cases in a school with nearly 2,000 people. None in other local schools either.

Of course some children have been off with symptoms but no positive tests - It was only colds. Sorry to disappoint so many people.

itsgettingweird · 31/08/2020 10:22

Yes Greece seems to be a big issue this week.

Read a story about 18 positives in Plymouth and possibly more and flight to Cardiff with 7 cases on board so all isolating.

I think the reality is there will be cases.

As kind as people accept the truth - it'll be BOTH pupils and staff and don't dismiss symptoms in children we could keep it under control. Unfortunately that will be so much more disrupted education.

foamrolling · 31/08/2020 10:33

Well you could say the exact same thing about the op couldn't you lillypotter? If teddyisahe's good news story has no bearing because its based on anecdote/her own personal experience then neither does the op's bad news story.

Your metaphor about crossing the road doesn't work either. Millions of people do indeed safely cross the road every day.

Raindancer411 · 31/08/2020 10:34

I am so close to home educating my son at least until Christmas. I had a baby in May and so worried he may bring something home. I cannot stop him getting in her face, it's been an on going battle.

I know of at least one of his friends who has just got back from Greece last week and they go back this week

Piggywaspushed · 31/08/2020 10:35

The problem isn't with Greece , per se. That is just one of the few remaining places holidaymakers can go.

The problem is with Zante positioning itself as party island and therefore large groups of 18-30 year olds descending upon it and not obeying local rules (same issues in Mykonos. albeit more upmarket party animals)

We are taking the infections there. And the Greek economy needs us so hasn't shut us out.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 31/08/2020 10:41

The rate in my local area is 1 per 100,000 in the last 7 days.
There are around 400 pupils at their school. Even a big Secondary is around 2000 pupils. So that's a 0.4percent chance at Primary, or 2% chance at Secondary of there being one pupil.
I'm not overly worried tbh.

RemyHadley · 31/08/2020 10:43

This is the main reason we’re keeping our kids at home tbh. I’d rather they were just at home and we can plan for that, rather than being constantly in and out/sent home to quarantine/having a new teacher because theirs gets sick/dealing with changes in the rules etc.

MadameBlobby · 31/08/2020 10:43

@ALLIS0N

Mine have been back for three weeks and no confirmed cases in a school with nearly 2,000 people. None in other local schools either.

Of course some children have been off with symptoms but no positive tests - It was only colds. Sorry to disappoint so many people.

Same here
MintyMabel · 31/08/2020 10:46

Loads of cases in Scotland. Sturgeon quickly points out these are nothing to do with schools being open.

MintyMabel · 31/08/2020 10:47

(Posted too quickly)

Loads of cases in Scotland. Sturgeon quickly points out these are nothing to do with schools being open Hmm.

But when not a single teacher is social distancing from each other, I expect to see cases in our school soon.

MinnieMousse · 31/08/2020 10:50

But when not a single teacher is social distancing from each other, I expect to see cases in our school soon.

How do you know none of them are social distancing?

MintyMabel · 31/08/2020 10:51

Mine have been back for three weeks and no confirmed cases in a school with nearly 2,000 people. None in other local schools either.

You aren't in Aberdeenshire, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross, Tayside, Inverness or Renfrewshire then? 38 cases in one SN school alone?

Why pretend it isn't happening?

TorysSuckRevokeArticle50 · 31/08/2020 10:51

I'm in Leicestershire too and just waiting for the call. The kids are in class bubbles but no SD within the class or with teacher/TA because it's just not possible to keep 6yos apart all day and when they're upset they get cuddles from each other and from the adults.

Drop off and pick up is not staggered in our school so it's a cluster of 400+ adults and roaming toddlers crowding round the doors to get their kid and go.

MintyMabel · 31/08/2020 10:52

How do you know none of them are social distancing?

Because I see them.

HorridHamble · 31/08/2020 10:57

My DC are off today thanks to what seems to be your average back-to-school bug. Not Covid as we had tests on Friday, but school stance is that any symptoms at all, covid or not, should stay away from school. Thank goodness I’m still wfh. Seems like half the school are off (Scottish primary).

ptumbi · 31/08/2020 11:00

The problem is not with the number of cases. We will always have 'cases', same as with flu, pneumonia, TB - the problem arises when these cases are severe, and need hospitalisation. Hospitalisation numbers and deaths from Covid are still ultra-low.

I think having 'cases' is a good thing, so long as they then get over it (same as with flu etc) and don't need hospitalisation, or die. Unfortunately people with flu may die. People with Covid may die. We need to learn to live with this risk.

And young people/kids are least at risk. Healthy kids or young people with healthy immune systems dont' die from Covid.

We need the Herd immunity. And this is best attained by young people getting it. And getting over it. And then they are the safest people in the uk, unable to transmit or to contract it!

MintyMabel · 31/08/2020 11:03

thanks to what seems to be your average back-to-school bug

Just as well it wasn't a covid infected person they picked that up from. The summer cold is sweeping the schools here. Doesn't bode well for the spread of covid if they can't stop the spread of a cold - which is spread in the same way as covid.

lonelyplanet · 31/08/2020 11:03

"But when not a single teacher is social distancing from each other, I expect to see cases in our school soon."

This is written to cause offence. You have no idea. In my classroom there will be myself and 2 other adults. There is not enough space for us to social distance all the time when the children are in the room too. In the afternoons 2 of the adults go to different classrooms and 2 more come into mine both of whom have been in different rooms in the mornings. They work 1 to 1 and teach groups and will not be able to distance. I will be in close proximity whether I like it or not to at least 4 adults a day. Each of those 4 adults will be in close proximity to at least 4 different adults a day. If you do the maths it is a lot of people. That is without mentioning the children. This is our job. We don't need to be blamed when this is what we are required to do.

MadameBlobby · 31/08/2020 11:07

@MintyMabel

Mine have been back for three weeks and no confirmed cases in a school with nearly 2,000 people. None in other local schools either.

You aren't in Aberdeenshire, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross, Tayside, Inverness or Renfrewshire then? 38 cases in one SN school alone?

Why pretend it isn't happening?

Scotland, and even all of these places are big places.
MadameBlobby · 31/08/2020 11:08

@MintyMabel

thanks to what seems to be your average back-to-school bug

Just as well it wasn't a covid infected person they picked that up from. The summer cold is sweeping the schools here. Doesn't bode well for the spread of covid if they can't stop the spread of a cold - which is spread in the same way as covid.

How is anywhere supposed to stop the spread of a cold?
GreyishDays · 31/08/2020 11:15

@MintyMabel

(Posted too quickly)

Loads of cases in Scotland. Sturgeon quickly points out these are nothing to do with schools being open Hmm.

But when not a single teacher is social distancing from each other, I expect to see cases in our school soon.

Our teachers are social distancing in Scotland. Spending breaks on their own etc.