To feel sorry for the child who tested + in school.

[shesellsseashells99]

I know this has to be kept confidential but quite often all the children find out which child it is and talk between them. We had the very first case of covid in my dd secondary school last week and all of year 9 had gone home to isolate. I just worry for that child and other children and families in that situation. I hope when they go back there are no implications for them. It was in local news, discussed on a local fb page...etc. horrible for them.

@user68634

No, it's just the way things are now. There has been over 20 cases in my kids school, you must live somewhere rural or with unusually low cases for this to be a big deal.

We do live in a low rate area although cases are rising. This the first case in the local comprehensive though. Other cases in the local area have also been on the local news pages too.

I've been there.

DD was first in her school to get it.

I informed them via email at 7pm on the Monday night.

There's quite a lot of work for the school to do before sending the bubble (entire Sixth Form) home.

But obviously the teachers knew the pupils wouldn't be in school on Wednesday.

The maths teacher thus brought a maths test forward 24 hours because of this.

DD's name was mud.

There's still quite a few of her cohort that won't associate with her 8 weeks later.

We had a message from the school not to discuss it or speculate who it is on the parents' whatsapp groups when there's a case in the class as it upset some parents. When it was dd's class off (before the school's message went out), the parent said straight away it was their child and everyone was lovely. Wished him well, were all friendly. Three others since (thankfully some concurrently so we haven't had 4 lots of self-isolation) and the whatsapp groups have been nothing but lovely. Children delighted to get a lie in and just do zoom lessons. Parents a bit frustrated but wouldn't dream of taking it out on the families concerned, it's just one of those things.

@GretaGip

I've been there.

DD was first in her school to get it.

I informed them via email at 7pm on the Monday night.

There's quite a lot of work for the school to do before sending the bubble (entire Sixth Form) home.

But obviously the teachers knew the pupils wouldn't be in school on Wednesday.

The maths teacher thus brought a maths test forward 24 hours because of this.

DD's name was mud.

There's still quite a few of her cohort that won't associate with her 8 weeks later.

That's shocking. I'm so sad for your dd :-( this is exactly my fear for the children .

I honestly don't see it being a problem? Kid gets a positive result and goes home? Is it an issue if people know?

Goodness I was locked in the library at primary school for having nits! Mum
Had to come and get me and was mortified. All the other kids thought we'd done something terrible.

Unless it was one of the government random tests? I don't believe you have to isolate until it comes back?

@shesellsseashells99

You isolate if you have symptoms, not upon getting a + test

Unless the child was asymptomatic and was tested for other reasons (can't imagine what these reasons would be as children obviously don't have regular testing at work like some adults do) they'd have had symptoms and should have been at home, self isolating!!

My son’s year 1 bubble has burst. Now I think I know who it is I am relieved as j know it’s not one of my son’s buddies nor does he sit close to her so am crossing my fingers. I don’t think badly of the parent though, I know she works at the hospital so inevitable she’d get it and quite possible she would pass on before she realised she had (had) it.

That all said I’d bloody hate it if I was the parent of the poorly child.

How do you know it’s the first case?

I’m a teacher, nothing gets announced, but the Covid list every day can be from reading.

Well my DC tested positive and closed their entire (Y11) bubble over half term and the week after. The school were incredibly coy on the website asking people 'not to speculate on social media' etc, which struck me as odd. I realise that they can't release DCs name - but all of their mates knew who it was and I imagine the entire year group was aware of who was positive.

We informed friends/parents who know us - particularly as the whole family then tested positive. Why on earth would there be implications? My DC caught it in school we presume as that was the only place they had been, probably from someone asymptomatic. I would give very short shrift to anyone 'blaming' them for having caught a virus.

@Crunchymum

Unless it was one of the government random tests? I don't believe you have to isolate until it comes back?

@shesellsseashells99

You isolate if you have symptoms, not upon getting a + test

Unless the child was asymptomatic and was tested for other reasons (can't imagine what these reasons would be as children obviously don't have regular testing at work like some adults do) they'd have had symptoms and should have been at home, self isolating!!

Yes, if the test comes back and positive then you isolate. What I'm trying to say is if the government picks my child to have a random test, as far as I'm aware, the child doesn't have to isolate until they wait for the result. A bit like people who have regular work testing. Maybe the child who got taken out of class didn't have symptoms but was selected for one of the government tests, it came back positive, the the parent quickly came to collect from school.

Why would the child be thought of in a bad way? It's a bloody virus, people catch it!

That's really most peculiar, GretaGip

It is a bit like HIV, isn't it? It can happen to anyone, but people love to judge.

Yes apologies @shesellsseashells99

I can see what you meant now.

@Crunchymum

Yes apologies *@shesellsseashells99*

I can see what you meant now.

That's ok, I don't think I worded it great the first time X

@Coyoacan

It is a bit like HIV, isn't it? It can happen to anyone, but people love to judge.

Back when the virus hit, people would put on facebook, lots if sympathy. People were very open. It feels like its changed this time. I know we have ha confirmed cases at our work and nobody has been told.

We had exactly the same thing happen at our school & even worse the parent is a medical professional. People were obviously frustrated with the way the parents had handled it but in no way blamed the child.

Just to clarify in our case, the child had symptoms which resulted in the parents testing.

@Daisy829

Just to clarify in our case, the child had symptoms which resulted in the parents testing.

Oh, so the child was in school with symptoms?

What I’ve said doesn’t even make sense...I was trying to reply to a previous poster who said a child awaiting a test result was sent into school by parents which is also what happened at our school. Child also had symptoms.
Anyway, in short, I agree with others who have stated that it’s sort of expected that we will all have to isolate at some point. It’s just frustrating when you are put in that situation due to people not doing as they should.

It's an airborne virus. People might get it. It's biology. My friend got it from going to Sainsbury's for a weekly shop during the first lockdown. No risky behaviour, just bad luck.

Greta surely they shouldn’t have gone into school on the Tuesday? If you emailed Mon Eve then they should all have stayed home on the Tuesday. Your poor dd, it’s not her fault. The school didn’t follow procedure.
I emailed school on a Tues eve to say my dd was positive and a message went out that evening to the rest of her year saying not to come into school the next day.

We've had five cases at the school where I work. One was amongst the staff, four were kids - spread across a month and four different year bubbles.

I still have no idea who got it and I don't want to know. Not my business. There was a discussion on a parents Facebook page when the member of staff got it, speculating. Until a few of us waded in and said a) it's not our business, b) the school did the right thing in not confirming a name as the thread was already looking like a witch hunt c) we hope the person and their family are all OK (hinting that that was what 'normal' people would do. Shut the thread down in minutes because if the parents who were gossiping started again they'd look unsympathetic and rather nasty.

One of DS's classmates was sent home with symptoms a few weeks ago. Turned out to be negative. But on the day I asked DS what the mood was in the class. 'We just hope she's OK mum' was his reply. Year 9. A lot of adults could learn by them.

My DS was the first (and only thus far) to test positive in his primary school. He caught it from his older sister who caught it from her secondary school.

He's primary so no WhatsApp and chat groups with friends so the only people who knew were people we told. Were other parents out with pitchforks demanding to know who had ruined half term. Sadly yes. Only a tiny minority. The same minority who had their dc tested and then fucked off on holiday/went out as planned after a negative test.

I hate the implication that you have only caught it because you haven't followed the rules perfectly possible to follow all the rules and still catch covid.
I also hate for it to be my kid who got it. I work for the NHS so have still been going to work throughout though don't have patient contact. Most colleagues that have got it seem to have got it on public transport going to work.
Luckily our year group haven't had any cases but there has been cases in other years and the attitude of most is that is going to happen as we are in a high infection rate area.