Kids sent home for a few weeks

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It's started already. Two yeargroups in separate secondary schools have been sent home for a few weeks. And a sixth form in another school. All 3 schools are within a mile of each other .
Our son's school is quarter of a mile away so I have a bad feeling we will be next

Same here on a smaller scale, one bubble at local school already compromised with kids sent home.

They opened on a Tuesday. The bubble closed on a Wednesday. Bodes well doesn't it?

88 schools closed partially / fully in England already when most have only been open a matter of days.

We are probably unusual here because we have 6 secondary schools within a mile of each other

I wish they’d factored all of this in before we had to spend £££ on uniform

Would it have killed them to just scrap uniform off this year? Have to keep up appearances and all that

5 dc out my DS class have all been tested and awaiting results which could mean my DS class has to isolate for 2 weeks if 2 of them positive. They all socialise together outside school and School only returned on Thursday so I find it hard to believe they caught it at school if indeed they are positive that is

3 schools local to me, 3 year groups bubbles sent home today.

@IslaBas I agree, we’ve just bought 3 pairs of school shoes

Same, my year 11 son was sent home today (all of the year not just him) because of a positive case in his year

In our city we have 4 schools I know - covering 6 year groups. Two are sixth form years, three are secondary years and 1 is primary. Two of the schools are very close to one another.

I'm thinking some of us on this thread are in the same city

I hope this makes national news but I doubt it.

@starrynight19

88 schools closed partially / fully in England already when most have only been open a matter of days.

@starrynight19 I'm interested in where this is being tracked centrally - can you point me to it? Thanks!

Sent home for a few weeks? Surely just 14 days?!

In hindsight schools could have opened in June and adapted the same protocols theres not much different to then than there is now, we could have ironed out all these teething problems ready for a better approach to open in September

Which city is it?

There are over 32,000 schools in the U.K., for a bit of context.

So first they would have. Even sent home for 14 days not a few weeks so slight exaggeration

Secondly they would have caught Covid, or been asymptomatic before school started, as it’s only just started in England. So where they sent to school ill?

Thirdly let’s see what the data says, were they from the same family? Different families but all got it somewhere?

There are 67000 schools in England

@Chloemol

Not sure where you're getting your info but there are less than 25,000 schools in England. That figure includes nurseries.

From my local news - 3 different schools, 3 bubbles having to close due to positive cases:

www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2020/09/07/27-pupils-self-isolating-after-confirmed-case-of-coronavirus-at-sandwell-school/

www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2020/09/07/90-children-self-isolating-after-confirmed-coronavirus-case-at-wolverhampton-school/

www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2020/09/07/90-children-self-isolating-after-confirmed-coronavirus-case-at-wolverhampton-school-2/

Tencornmaidens toryfibs on Twitter are updating it.

I also found this www.google.com/amp/s/www.northamptonchron.co.uk/health/coronavirus/more-60-uk-schools-have-cases-coronavirus-heres-which-ones-2963556%3famp

@dollypartonscoat

Sorry you are correct it’s 67000 in France.

Are you in Birmingham?
This is on our doorstep too.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/every-birmingham-school-coronavirus-outbreaks-18892700

West midlands and yes the schools are dropping like flies...