We were doing ok until we opened all the schools....

[Bbq1]

After lockdown was lifted pre September and pubs, restaurants etc were opened we seemed to have a handle on Covid with cases, hospital admissions and deaths all declining fairly steadily. Since we released millions of school aged children and thousands of teachers etc back into the classroom- boom, cases and consequently deaths, are now growing very rapidly again. It didn't take a rocket scientist to work out that this would happen. I work in a school and I have a 15 year old starting his gcse's so I 100% don't want the schools to close but surely there must be a more workable solution? Couldn't schools be one week, one week off for different bubbles or alternate days? Nobody wants schools to shut but surely in the long term if we don't get something safer in place and just continue sending kids and adults in day after day, then eventually they will close again?

Red toothbrush, the school don’t ring you. You get a letter home.

You get a letter when there’s a case but my dd said that people were being brought out of class in the middle of the school day. This was after others had already got the letter and some told to self isolate. Not sure how true this is as she didn’t actually see it for herself, but who knows.

A Teacher said they were one of the last schools to have a case. According to dds’ friends in four different schools, all of them have had a case, it looks as if there are far more schools with cases than you read about in the news.

@Vynalbob

Your correct. Masses of positive results in schools. Just tip of iceberg...There's a threshold for 111 to advise testing. My sons been off school due to icantbelieveitsnotcovid virus...raised temp but not hitting threshold. His year bubble not advised...so how many asymptomatic pupils or those with some symptoms are not being counted.... But hey everyone is to blame except the government.

Yes we have had icantbelieveit'snotcovidvirus cough. Tested negative,that God. I like the turn of phrase

I had a text & email at 12.30pm telling me that at 1pm my DD's year group & 1 particular bus (pupils Y7-13 on this bus) were coming home & would not be allowed back to school until Mon 5th October due to a positive test result in her year (this pupil also caught that school bus)

My friend's son was sent home in the middle of the day. Friend got contacted about it.

It wasn't a letter.

This uncertainity is making me anxious. Just waiting for that text or email.

I want my kids back at school, it means i'm not stuck at home looking after them (can't find childcare or a nanny) and is also important for their future. Keeping our kids off school will screw their futures up. Luckily mine are young enough to not affect important exams, but anyone is high school is facing a very uncertain future right now. I sympathise greatly

The problem started when the pubs re opened nothing to with the schools !

@Howslifenow

This uncertainity is making me anxious. Just waiting for that text or email.

The uncertainty is ramped up100%when you work in a school and also have your own dc in another school.

Pubs were opened around jun jul. Not august...
If it's true very few quarantined returning from abroad it may well be that. Even with a 14d quarantine there would be some still after that.

Of course schools are going to close.

There's not a single school in my area without cases.

I feel so sorry for the teachers and pupils. They are being hung out to dry by the most incompetent government I've ever known. Its criminal

@Bbq1 Totally!!
That is me also.

True bubble sizes are far greater and one colleuge may cross numerous bubbles on one day. Your dc will have contact with other bubbles...

Apparently ons says 1/500 infected now. There are almost that many in a 2 form entry primary.
In a secondary thats likely 2+ people per week i think. Not including teachers.
1/500*8m kids is 16k infected kids this week.

There is at the moment quite a difference between areas, so our area would have rather less than this, but some areas decidedly more. There was talk of a traffic light system with measures dependent on the situation locally.

Well I'm in Scotland so the cases are not as bad although we are in an area that has been with restrictions but the cases have been falling.

How many cases were there at the beginning of the lockdown in March? Anyone know?

@neveradullmoment99

How many cases were there at the beginning of the lockdown in March? Anyone know?

Don't they guesstimate 100k/day? I feel I recall that figure!

On the Scottish government website it says that as of the 23rd September, 11,010 pupils absent either for all or part of the school day because of COVID-19 related reasons.

These are provisional figures.

Educational settings are now the top source of Covid. From ONS.

Yes primaries as well as secondaries and even some nurseries.
It's probably going to fuel it into a lot of workplaces too ..
222 i think outbreaks so at least 444 cases. This week. Then it may be taken home to all those 222 families

I cannot see how they can stay open.

Headteachers are now dealing with public health. Why is it their responsibility?

I think they will try to remain fully open up until half term. I think things will change at the start of the second half of term. Whether this be blended learning or full closure I don't know. Safest option covid wise would be to have full closure but for the sake of children's education, blended would be better if schools can't fully open. It's difficult because both public health and children's education are important.

Oh but GCSE’s are going to go ahead as usual. Ofqual said so. Minimal content removed from the courses.

How can they close the schools, rely on part time or patchy provison, then sit all the 16/18 year olds in front of exam papers that they probably haven’t covered the content for?