When do they close the bloody school...!?

[essexschoolmum]

Have name changed as school circumstances may identify me.

7 cases in one year at my DD's school. 3 other positive tests last week in other years. School asking one year to stay at home for two weeks but otherwise operating as normal.

I can't afford 2 weeks off work of my DD has to isolate and school is open but my work have said they will pay if school is closed or they send a bubble home.

I feel like school are trialling herd immunity

I think the idea of the bubbles in school is they’re separate from the other kids, if they’re not interacting all together they’re not going to spread it through all years. That being said if your daughter is affected then it’s great you have support from your employers. My nieces school the bubbles are quite large but been zero cases since they’ve returned, lots of colds but no one isolating as of yet. The schools can’t shut every time there is a case, as some schools wouldn’t reopen for very long and others would have few closure creating inconsistencies on how to manage something. I don’t think it’s herd immunity but more following stats that kids don’t really get it as intense as adults and the recovery is pretty high.

It's not the school who makes the decision about closing. They have a number to call who advise on the next steps and when to isolate bubbles or close the school. If they have sent a year group home then that's a bubble isolated?

Is anyone actually ill? No, I thought not. Why so desperate to prevent hundreds of children having an education. This hysteria astounds me

There's no case at all where I live. I don't want school to close.

As @Snuggles81 said the head teacher doesn’t make the decision on school closure. Public health England will be telling the school what and when to close. Chances are school staff are just as confused as you.

A school near me has sent home the whole year 8 because a close family member of one of the yr 8 pupils has tested positive. So not one pupil or teacher has tested positive and they've all been sent home! I thought there would be the same rules for all schools X

@Worried2010000 there are at least 10 known positive cases last week in a school population of around 1000.

There is no such thing as bubbles when the kids all bundle onto the same buses/trains after school...

@Worried2010000

Is anyone actually ill? No, I thought not. Why so desperate to prevent hundreds of children having an education. This hysteria astounds me

Are you going to wait for the answer to that before answering from your own little thought bubble? Nobody will have got a test without symptoms, so , yes, there are ill people involved here.

@pastandpresent

There's no case at all where I live. I don't want school to close.

If there are no cases your schools won’t... Are you confused? OP has many cases in her DC’s school.

@pastandpresent I don't want your schools to close either. I would rather that this particular school take a preemptive step to switch to online learning for two weeks that wait until every year has been sent home one by one which seems inevitable at the moment.

[quote essexschoolmum]@Worried2010000 there are at least 10 known positive cases last week in a school population of around 1000.

There is no such thing as bubbles when the kids all bundle onto the same buses/trains after school... [/quote]
That’s no different to parents who drop their kids off via public transport or use public transport as their main source of travel on the weekends etc.

10/1000 is very low to be honest- the 990 don’t deserve to be pulled out of school because of 10kids.

No one is ill who is positive why close the school?

And those poeple take it home!
Im not too worried about my kids getting it, I know research shows they're likely to be fine. But Im v worried Id get it and leave them mother less.

Lots of families with a high risk parent...

So the reason you want the whole school to close is because then your employer will continue to pay you if you can't work because the school is closed??

Do you realise how self obsessed that sounds?

10 known cases in 1000 is not low. It suggests there will be other asymptotic cases - scaled up, it's double the rate of infection per 100,000 across the UK and out of kilter with our local area (South East Essex). Lots of kids travel from East London/wider county to the school using public transport.

@EhUp self obsessed? Yes, because I pay my mortgage myself. I have already lost £340 this month having to take my youngest child out of (another) school for a test (at their request) when she just had a cold.

Sorry but I am fed up with this everyone in it together bullshit.

OP I'm not really sure want your point is. You have said your employer will pay you if the school send home a bubble. So if the school say your DD has to isolate then that's her bubble is sent home and your employer will pay you. (I may have got that wrong so sorry if I have). As stated above schools aren't making the decisions they are told what they need to do. How old is your DD?

Dd bubble is 300 plus. Bubbles dont help.

Many schools are sending bubbles home after just one positive test, although it is usually 2 positive tests in a bubble that would cause it to burst. I am surprised that 7 cases in one bubble haven't burst it.

Are they managing good SD in classes @essexschoolmum?

@ineedaholidaynow my DD is Y9 and says they don't wear masks moving around school so I would say no!

I think with the announcement coming tomorrow and or the citcuit break and with schools being told to prepare for online....

It could be sooner than wed hoped.

my childs school is operating in year group bubbles. a child has tested positive so the whole year group will now have to do 14 days isolation including the teachers who have taught that year group. The rest of the school is open as normal.

Just to add google classrooms will be in operation each day in order for him to learn from home.