Child in DD class has Covid-19

[Vestandpants]

He’s tested positive on Friday, poor thing is feeling so poorly.

They only went back on Thursday so I’m wondering if he picked it up beforehand?

Anyway, I’m to keep our DD off for 14 days now.
My question is do I have to stay off work?
I genuinely can’t afford the bills if I have to stay off as my work don’t pay me if I’m off.

Should I just go to work and only take time off if my own DD shows symptoms (very tempted)

Help!

@guilttripjourno

Due to this selfish attitude Covid 19 will not be controlled. If you worked at my workplace, I would be praying for everyone's safety.

Praying will be about as effective as masks so go ahead and pray.

It's not a selfish attitude it's following the official guidelines not some extra ones made up by a random on the internet.

You are the selfish one, expecting people to follow your made up rules.

@guilttripjourno
Appropriate user name by the way - doesn't work on me though

My school had 2 inset days with 90 staff in but we were split in groups around the school watching the training streamed on teams. Our staff room has reopened but with a maximum of 14 at any one time. We are fortunate that we have the space but also our head has put a lot of thought in to avoid large numbers of staff congregated.

@PurpleDaisies

Due to this selfish attitude Covid 19 will not be controlled. If you worked at my workplace, I would be praying for everyone's safety.

The op doesn’t have to isolate according to official rules.

I wish people would stop making up their own rules and castigating people for not following their version.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 totally agree

My inset day was with staff from multiple schools. No ventilation. Mingling in staff meetings as normal too. Very much depends on your headteacher- ours seems to be in the camp of "if no one is visibly ill I'll just ignore it". Thinks it's an over reaction anyway and treating it like any other disease.

Child's school are much more aware and being careful without being over the top imo. The guidance has "where possible" so many times that tbh it is entirely up to headteachers' interpretation.

@Frazzled2207

Regarding the Radleys school that is bonkers. All of ks2 isolating because a staff member who has not had any contact with any kids is positive ?? Blimey. God help us all.

They are obviously closing KS2 as they don't have the staff to teach if the staff are all isolating. What did you expect to happen when schools went back?

@pooiepooie25
Obviously school can not open if not enough staff but i am surprised that the non-teaching poorly staff was a sufficiently close contact of all the KS2 teaching staff to mean they all have to stay home .

I’m absolutely gobsmacked and some on the inset day stories - all staff crammed into one room and even staff from several schools mixing without SD.

In my workplace (NHS) we cannot all SD in one room for our weekly team meeting so instead of making the environment unsafe by cramming us all in, we use Skype for business so that people can join from other rooms in the office or even call in from home.

I don’t understand why other workplaces aren’t ensuring that staff are SD from each other. I do understand that schools aren’t set up for whole classes to SD from each other but what’s stopping the staff from keeping a safe distance from one another? It’s bonkers not to.

The one thing Whitty etc said was don’t let adults not SD in schools. Not sure why it was ignored. Crazy

To be fair to the school, they are clear it was a non teaching staff member. So perhaps the secretary, based in the same room as the photo copier, or a cleaner/caretaker moving around the whole school.

It doesn't mean all KS2 staff sat on each other's laps in the staff room.

However - during this time if her test comes back negative you can both cease isolation
This can't be right. You can't shorten isolation by having a test, because it can take a while for it to show up in your system. Hence the 14 days.

This can't be right. You can't shorten isolation by having a test, because it can take a while for it to show up in your system. Hence the 14 days.

I can’t see where this if from, but if you’re isolating because you have symptoms you can stop that by getting a test. Anyone who is isolating because of your symptoms can stop when it’s proven by a negative test that it isn’t covid.

I agree purple but in this scenario, as a contact of the confirmed case you have to wait out the isolation, you cannot get a test to shorten it. A bit like the quarantine after a trip.

This is from the NHS page.

If you’re isolating because you’re a contact of a positive case, that can’t be shortened by you getting a negative test.

Our secondary school went back on Wednesday and 5 teachers have been diagnosed with Covid - 19.

Everyone who had contact with the teachers have to self isolate for 14 days but the families don't have to isolate untill someone in there household has symptoms or a positive test

@BlippiToys is that Haverhill?
What are they defining by 'contact' out of interest? Being in the same room for more than 15 mins? Being within 2 metres for more than 15 mins?

Not sure what they are defining as contact.

But I guess it doesn't really matter in a way.

Kids isolating for 14 days, regardless of a 'negetive' test
Yes Haverhill
@SchrodingersUnicorn