It's best for children to be in school

[Billie18]

I'm shocked that the consensus here appears to be that schools should close. I believe that it's best for children to be in school. Also that they should not be forced to wear masks or perform any social distancing as this is a damaging for their mental and social development. A thread for parents and teachers who share this view and have concerns about the threat of school closures and forced isolation of children who are not ill.

@timeforanewstart teachers are not required to bubble. They can, and are required to, teach across the school. This is government guidance. It's only the children who bubble.

270 is a reasonable size bubble for secondary.

@ChloeDecker

Would you mind posting an anonymous picture of the rash please?

It’s been all over my Facebook feed today...

Lazy teachers and unions forcing schools to close early, for a 3-4 week break.

I just see red.

@Nicknacky

christinarossetti19 You might want to read my post again...I never said the petitions were started by teachers. They were links contained within threads to which I’m unable to link to as I avoided them. I hope that helps.

"Yet some of the teachers here are happy to post link after link and also post links to petitions calling for schools to be closed"

I never said the petitions were started by teachers - did you not type the above as well though? Which does say that teachers were posting links to petitions, doesn't it?

Can't see straight for the back peddling there!

@CallmeAngelina

Yeah, but also, we can't insist parents take their kids to be tested (lying aside). If they want to send them in to school, we're stuck with them, potentially infected.

Actually this is the real problem. In the name of "civil liberties" we are allowing mass infection by random people. How is this different than letting people go around with knives randomly sticking it in people? Some might be lucky, some might dodge, some might die. No difference. And yet knives are banned.

[quote OverTheRainbow88]@ChloeDecker

Would you mind posting an anonymous picture of the rash please?[/quote]
It’s gone down a bit with antihistamines but this is as it is now.

@Appuskidu

So, some people who don’t appear to be teachers, have posted about a petition that wants schools to close a week early for Christmas.

Has this really been extrapolated by some posters to mean that teachers are all in favour of long-term school closures?!

Of course it has! Because everyone knows teachers want schools to close, even when they repeatedly say they don’t.

@SomnolentSekhmet

Obviously unless the teachers are sick enough to need hospital they should be in class, teaching! Selfish bastards..

😬

@ChloeDecker

Thank you.

I’m convinced both my kids had this back in feb before mass testing!

My DD got it first OverTheRainbow88 and was self isolating and then I started a day later, which had me suspicious and then lots of Googling. I went for a test on Sat and got the results Sun.
It hasn’t hugely spread on my DD as much as me but I must say it fills me with horror that I may never have thought to test and we could have infected so many others.
We are both allergic to penicillin and some reports say there may be a correlation.
A Kings study recently said that 27% of about 90 had a rash as their only symptom.

The problem with people like the OP talking about ‘healthy children’ is that so many don’t display the top three symptoms promoted by the govt. yet still potentially have Covid.

@ChloeDecker

Are you feeling well other than the rash?

Yes, it’s scary how different people present.

Our head is pretty useless generally speaking but she’s insisting that the kids get tested for lots of other symptoms than the main 3. Lots are getting positive results with an upset tummy and sore throat but nothing else.

Both my children were covered in a weird unknown rash and temp of over 40 for 4 days back in feb. Wonder if it was covid in hindsight. They were kept in hospital Overnight as no one was too sure- Then I had a cough a few weeks later!

We are so short staffed now, I’m teaching GCSE physics as a humanities teacher!

Are you feeling well other than the rash?

Yes, no temp and feel fine otherwise but just that my skin is on fire! Keep checking temp daily.

Reading up on it and many can have a rash alongside other symptoms and other countries are taking this more seriously.

It may well have been Covid back then but with no testing, I sympathise!

However.

OP I don't think there is a consensus at all. There is significant echo chamber led by one very vocal MN'er and I think a lot of us who have tried to give an alternative point of view have now given up arguing over it, because, well frankly schools are still open and infections are declining, so that's sort of arguing the case for us! I'm yet to meet a teacher in real life who wants schools to shut, thank god!
Well said. The vociferous few who pile into threads starred by one poster never put it to a vote-just keep repeating the same mantra over and over and getting their mates to use ad hominem attacks on posters who don’t agree with their stance.

Hello Susan

I have had a headache for 3 days, unusual tiredness, and an itchy welty rash behind one knee.
No cough or fever though... I wonder what the odds are?

@SomnolentSekhmet

Obviously unless the teachers are sick enough to need hospital they should be in class, teaching! Selfish bastards..

Poor excuse.

I was updating our school social media and giving feedback on Seesaw whilst sat in my hospital bed attached to wires.

((I actually was, albeit through choice and probably to take my mind off the shock of suddenly finding myself whisked into A&E))

"I think a lot of us who have tried to give an alternative point of view have now given up arguing over it"
Possibly because you have no viable argument left to make. If you are that convinced you are right, then why not articulate it in a way that persuades others to agree with you?

This thread was started by an anti masker susan.

Yes, and they seemed quite entrenched in their view. Not enough to return to defend that view against the common sense one that has been put forward, though.

@chloedecker I had exact same rash with Covid although mine was on the back of my hands. Hope you feel better soon. Take lots of rest that's the key to recovery. Xx

My skin looks like that all the time.... what with that and the asthmatic dry cough, knowing when to test for Covid is going to be exciting!

@Barbie222 as i stated this was aimed at the poster who said they worked in a primary and were in contact with all 270 pupils not a secondary
At my ds secondary the teachers stay 2 m away

@WhyNotMe40

I have had a headache for 3 days, unusual tiredness, and an itchy welty rash behind one knee. No cough or fever though... I wonder what the odds are?

I'm in a vaccine trial. Two of the three things you've mentioned are on my list of things I need to get a COVID test for. Either of them; not both.

Oh Why, lie and get yourself tested. Hope you are ok.

Really sorry you are suffering, Chloe, fingers crossed the antihistamines stop the worst of it.