Son sent home

[RosieLemonadeAndSugar]

Just wondering if anyone thinks this is right or sounds odd.

Primary school aged Son was sent home today due to being in contact with someone who has tested positive within school. Not whole class, just him and a select few others ( just one other I know of ) they said he was sitting at the table, within the classroom with this member of staff for more than 15 minutes and that's why he has to now isolate. Fine.

But surely the whole class should isolate? Surely the member of staff hasn't just gone in, sat at my sons table and not touched / walked round / been in contact or helped anyone else?

I've not heard of this happening, usually if there's a case in the class, the whole class have to isolate?

Loss of schools/PH authorities are just sending home close contacts. It depends if the staff member kept their distance from all the other children.

Sounds normal to me. Just the closest contacts

My one son was sent back on one of our many self isolations, just him and a few others. This is what the school generally does.

At my other son's school though they send whole classes home, which can be best part of 100 due to each options class combination.

Was it someone leading an intervention or something hence only being the small group? If class teacher would probably expect whole class to go home in primary but not necessarily for a different adult.

The sent the whole class home a few weeks ago because someone was positive and I haven't heard of this happening.

I do think it's a good thing, if it hadn't been my child I would have been happy my child hadn't been effected when they weren't close.

My daughter was sent home with her whole year group whereas at my son’s school they only send close contacts home. Most schools now only send close contacts home which I think is silly

@HailFairy

Was it someone leading an intervention or something hence only being the small group? If class teacher would probably expect whole class to go home in primary but not necessarily for a different adult.

No it was within the classroom this adult just happened to be sitting at their table helping them.

I would have expected the whole class to be sent home to isolate, unless the TA was a 1:1 of course.

I work in a secondary school and we are just sending close contacts. So students sat either side of a positive case, or directly behind. We have only isolated 1 member of staff due to a student student infection - a TA who had worked one on one with them.

At the beginning of the pandemic my school were just sending home close contacts but in the last month they are sending whole corridors home.