Covid rife in son's school now

[Mugofsteaminghottea]

DS nearly 15 wont take it seriously. I STILL have to remind him to wash his hands!! Feel like it's closing in now and I'm worried as am overweight :(

Anyone else finding life hard in general? Feel like I'm limping along

Well he is right. It is less than a typical cold for many people

but for a very small number of people it isn't.

@Chailatteplease

Indeed.
We have been treated to the most ridiculous lock down learning today.
They said they would be giving an hour a day in 2 half an hour slots.
It's been almost like a defiance that the teacher will not actually teach a lesson?
Work has been uploaded. No explanation from their actual teacher?
She spins out 30 mins talking about nothing... Then says.. Hey ho, so see what work is uploading for today.

Year 4.

@TheHouseonHauntedHill sounds familiar. Mine are using the seesaw app, teacher uploads videos saying what they’ll be doing that day and then documents they are to complete themselves. I have a year 4 too, he needs me to sit and do the work with him. I’ve complained to the head but their response was not to worry, just get through what we can.... did that for 6 months, not happy to have them fall behind so much.

I think we need to learn to live with this risk now. It isn;t going away, it is endemic

This is what we are doing now. This is what living with it looks like (until we get a better or more instant way of testing, which is readily available)

I hear people say this time & again but it never seems clear what you expect people to do differently.

[quote Chailatteplease]@TheHouseonHauntedHill sounds familiar. Mine are using the seesaw app, teacher uploads videos saying what they’ll be doing that day and then documents they are to complete themselves. I have a year 4 too, he needs me to sit and do the work with him. I’ve complained to the head but their response was not to worry, just get through what we can.... did that for 6 months, not happy to have them fall behind so much.[/quote]
Is the whole class self isolating, or is the teacher also teaching a class at the same time?

I have a year 4 too, he needs me to sit and do the work with him.

Well, in school, that's what teachers and teaching assistants do, but unfortunately it's not possible to 'sit with' a child (or walk round the room and look over a shoulder to spot issues, or see the same error repeated multiple times and stop for some re-teaching) when children are completing work online.

I genuinely cannot think of a way of delivering 'online learning' to primary children THAT IS TRULY EFFECTIVE that does not require an adult to be present for some of the time in the room with the child.

Video followed by worksheets / documents sounds completely sensible. If you look at Oak Academy - the government's own sponsored online learning site for schools to use under these circumstances - that is EXACTLY the format they follow. A video of someone talking, then some work to complete.

“Tfoot75
“ I'm assuming you aren't elderly ... the greater likelihood is that you wouldn't notice you have it, or it will be no more serious than a cold. Your worry is out of proportion to the risk to yourself, plenty of data out there to equip yourself with.“

Any age group can have an underlying health condition. There’s no right to stay off school.

Anyone who does will be prosecuted and can get £2500 per parent per child and 3 months prison, and a parenting order.

Children are at school against their will who know they or family are likely to be very ill or die. It’s important people understand what’s happening.

There’s little public knowledge of this and support is urgently needed to put pressure on government to allow absence for clinically vulnerable groups and not criminalise parents for protecting their families.

What @cantkeepawayforever said. Sorry, but if they're younger than year 4 they need a person to go through the work with them in the room, or they will not be moving on. Young children getting everything right without an adults help means they're not learning anything new, doesn't it. If you need your child to bother you less, there's youtube and colouring in. If they need to progress, someone's going to have to put the work in sitting next to them. That's why it's so much better for primary schools to give you shorter inputs that everyone can access, at a point when they've got some time to spare to spend with their child. Which is exactly what they're doing. Your post demonstrates that what you want isn't progress, it's peace from your children.

When some schools are doing online lessons with their teachers, so parents can get on with their own work, why aren’t they all doing it yet?

Because that isn't the way to ensure that most children make the most progress. For younger children, less time doing things with a adult there is better than more time working on tasks which don't need adult help. This approach ensures that the maximum number of children progress. Our school is proof: we set tasks the right length, so that the majority of people had time to do them with their children, and we allowed them to be completed at times which suited parents. Now, the majority of our children are meeting age related expectations.

If you want your children constantly entertained on screens, there is already a whole industry who do this much better than teachers do.

My nearly 15 Yr old is the same.
However. I'm 99 percent sure he had it in March. He spiked a huge temp for 3 days, cough and a rash that looked like hand foot and mouth. A few weeks later it came to light that it could be a symptom and the pics were identical.
He didn't isolate from all of us as we wernt aware it could be that.

He refuses to wear a mask. If he's with me I make him because he has no medical reason not to. But he doesn't when not with me. ( I know this as I put it in a compartmment in a tied bag in his school Bag and it's been there 3 weeks)

@BlackeyedSusan

I have one overdosed on dopamine..

It naturally goes back to a more reasonable level comparable to serotonin by about age 22.

DS just says "it's not as bad as people make out"

He's right. For most young people it's asymptomatic or they have mild flu like symptoms.

And what do you mean with 'rife'? 5%, 10% or 20% of pupils?

@Barbie222 so what do you suggest working parents do then? Fall behind? Your comment makes absolutely no sense in the context of mine btw. My children ARE doing their work via a screen, just with my help instead of the teacher they need it from.

@Mugofsteaminghottea

DS just says "it's not as bad as people make out". I could just cry tbh

He's right. Most people are going to make a full recovery.

Dd is in 6 form and says most students are not wearing masks in the areas they are meant too, staff remind them but they ignore.

[quote Chailatteplease]@Barbie222 so what do you suggest working parents do then? Fall behind? Your comment makes absolutely no sense in the context of mine btw. My children ARE doing their work via a screen, just with my help instead of the teacher they need it from.[/quote]
Yes, that's what happens when they are at home. Many of my colleagues are currently in this situation.

This is why the government should have had a circuit break perhaps, or done more to keep cases low.

But it isn't the fault of teachers that they can't be in the room with your kids.