Case at school - radio silence

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It appears we have a confirmed case at my ds school in his class in school last week 'poorly' Thursday / Friday who tested Friday PM and was confirmed Saturday. The mother is also now awaiting results and is unwell. Mother has tried to contact the school via email/phone and can get no response. Other concerned parents including myself have also tried to get a response from the school.. nothing!
Is there supposed to be some sort of guidelines (even in half term) about reporting confirmed cases to school? I can't help but wonder they are keeping quite deliberately. Worth noting the other local school which closed its doors midway through last week is having an extra week off because cases have risen sharply! I just feel like we need to be alerting people..🤷‍♀️

Eh Fred?
Where did I say that I wanted only Ds2 taught?

None of his friends have been asked to isolate.

All his friends will be in school next week. All his football team will too.

As far as I can work out it's only his tutor group, 30 out of 260, that have been asked to stay home.

So he is being disadvantaged. All his mates will be in school, being taught, doing exams.

He won't.

School have to set him work.

He could be contagious, 14 days after being in contact with the infected person. I do get that.

I know they do MrsHamlet. But it's not the same, is it? Getting sent 3 spreadsheets doesn't compensate for /isn't the same as attending 6 lessons each day.

He'll miss 30 lessons. A Couple of spreadsheets? isn't the same!

All 3 of my kids schools set up a specific Corona email address over half term. All 3 schools emailed to state we must email this address in the event of a Covid positive case. I assumed every school would be doing this...

No it's not. But if he does the work he's set, at least he's missing less than 30 whole lessons.
Last term, ONE self isolating student did any of the work I set. One.

One? Poor you.
It's not like that here. Schools are very strict and demand parent engagement.

His primary teacher told me she had 3 children who didnt complete 'much' work. The other 27 did all the work set.

That's their choice. I've passed it on as requested. But I certainly won't be busting a gut to put on special lessons to catch them up. I've done my part.

@Oblomov20

What happens if every two weeks another child that my Ds rarely sees, gets a positive test.

I could get a phone call every 2 weeks? And then my son might not be in school at all between now and Christmas!

My year 10 was in school for 2 weeks then self isolation for two weeks, then school for two weeks and then self isolation for two weeks. He was a contact, due to both cases being classmates in 1 options lesson, but he had no symptoms, so not once would I have considered getting him tested.

But it's disruptive and divisive, especially as the home learning was a mixed bag in the first stint with 2 days of no work, while those that were in got full lessons. Then when he returned on the 1st day of his return back they all sat a Chemistry assessment, even though he (and the other half yr of perfectly healthy students that had been sent home) not had the double Chemistry those in school got.

Well what you prefer OP? Burnt out teachers working over half term doing the government's job of track and trace?

@Grobagsforever nah.. I'm a teacher fuck that. 🙄 bore off

If you are isolating because you have been in contact with someone with covid, you have to isolate for the full 14 days even if you get symptoms and test negative, because although your symptoms weren’t caused by covid, you might still get covid during the isolation period.

”If your test is negative, then you must still complete the full 14 days of self-isolation, as you could still develop COVID-19”. www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-contacts-of-people-with-possible-or-confirmed-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-who-do-not-live-with-the-person/guidance-for-contacts-of-people-with-possible-or-confirmed-coronavirus-covid-19-infection-who-do-not-live-with-the-person

If you haven’t been in contact with anyone with covid, get symptoms, and test negative, then you can stop isolating (because it wasn’t covid).

So, there’s no advantage to getting symptoms during the isolation period!

I'm still struggling with why Ds is off school. Guess I'm just frustrated.

His tutor group are not off. They are mostly in school today. He seems to be one of the few that are off.

Apparently it's one class that he was in on Friday. He has no partner. So no one sitting next to him. The nearest boy is 3metres away. The nearest girl is also 2-3 metres away.

Yes yes I know I sound ridiculous. I can't let this drop, it's really irritating me.

I know that stupid, but it's just because if I honestly thought that he had Corona of course I would do the right thing!

people are most contagious 2 to 3 days before they even start to feel unwell. Wouldn't he be most at risk of developing symptoms 2 to 3 days after he's seen this person?

and then every 2 to 3 days after that the risks get less and less. so if he hasn't seen /been at school for 10 days now, isn't the risk reducing every day?

if he was unwell on day 2 to 3, it's less chance now he's on day 10.

Plus my boys love being in school and I want them in school. I fear that very soon that there will be another total lockdown and our children will be off for 3 to 4 months. all the more reason why I want my son in school now. and I'm just can't quite except that there's a good reason why he isn't.

That all probably sounds mad.
I'm just offloading. Take no notice.