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Teachers - are you seeing family?

123 replies

Cantspeakpublic · 02/12/2020 20:49

Wondering really if you break up in the 19th and only have until the 27th are you seeing family? I think it’s incredibly unfair you have not been given the isolation period to see loved ones

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Cantspeakpublic · 02/12/2020 23:10

I think we should be allowed to do just this and had planned this before tiers were introduced. It’s disgusting people are being told to mix when schools have just closed.
New year would have been better however not the optimum as then kids will be back in school after Mixing!
Nothing is great but taking away our choices is dreadful

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llm24 · 02/12/2020 23:15

Teachers aren’t the only ones not seeing family for various reasons

chuffedasbuttons · 02/12/2020 23:19

This is unanimous.

Where's the frigging Daily Fail with their stolen news from MN ??

3 schools here in my own household. 30 odd cases in DD secondary. Not a chance I'm seeing family. Mostly because I expect to be ill with Covid at Christmas

ReceptionTA · 02/12/2020 23:20

It is silly that families are being told the can mix so soon after breaking up from schools. It would make sense to me to close schools a week earlier and add those days back on some other time over the rest of the year.

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Cantspeakpublic · 02/12/2020 23:21

Its not a tit for tat about only being teachers I was just asking about teachers as it was on my mind so let’s not go down that road..

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noblegiraffe · 02/12/2020 23:22

Where’s any journalist when you need them?

‘Teachers think that schools are so unsafe that they won’t risk seeing their families on Christmas Day’ should really be news given the amount of ‘schools are safe’ stories they dutifully printed in September.

monkeytennis97 · 02/12/2020 23:22

No older family members- just our DC's hopefully (one lives away from home other in a care home).

Tootsietoot · 02/12/2020 23:22

No. Waiting until Easter.

maddy68 · 02/12/2020 23:26

No. Only my children. So many of my students have tested positive. I definitely will not be passing anything on to the vulnerable in my family

chuffedasbuttons · 02/12/2020 23:29

I meant to say three schools in my house for the household of THREE people 😁

Bobtheshark · 02/12/2020 23:32

Our daughter is a teacher and yes we’re seeing her as we have throughout. No cases in her school.

Bobtheshark · 02/12/2020 23:34

To add my Younger kids go to school every day which us no different.

Tiredtiredtired100 · 02/12/2020 23:38

Yes. I haven’t seen any in term time but will get a test on the last day of term (if I can) so that I know - to the best of my ability - that I am COVID clear. It’s a risk but less of one than it might be and it’s what I did at half term.

Hardbackwriter · 02/12/2020 23:42

Wow, apparently DH and his colleagues are the only teachers who will certainly be seeing family at Christmas... I'm having a tough job convincing DH that we should even stick properly to the three household rule!

Didicat · 02/12/2020 23:52

Nope will not be seeing family, will be our first ever Christmas not with family.

It’s not worth the risk to our grandparents. We’d love to see them all but our love for them will keep us away.

TheGreatWave · 03/12/2020 00:05

@Hardbackwriter

Wow, apparently DH and his colleagues are the only teachers who will certainly be seeing family at Christmas... I'm having a tough job convincing DH that we should even stick properly to the three household rule!
Your DH, my sister, the reckless lot.

We’d love to see them all but our love for them will keep us away.

Yeah, I don't particularly love her, obviously.

Oh we've been seeing MIL, which is fairly good because goodness knows how long she would have been lying on the floor after falling at the weekend if we weren't. (Up to 4 hrs was bad enough)

Sitt · 03/12/2020 05:38

Hardbackwriter my husband too

Sitt · 03/12/2020 05:43

There has been one case at my husband’s school, it was before half term, and in a cohort he doesn’t teach. We checked whether family were still happy to provide childcare under those circumstances and they were. If the situation changes before Christmas then we will of course change plans.

walksen · 03/12/2020 05:46

I have stated away from my family for over 2 months. First because i was worried about infecting them and then because as a supply teacher if I have to isolate I won't get any money.

The first decision turned out to be wise as they still had a half term when I contracted it. So far half the school staff has tested positive and some of the younger staff were asymptomatic.

I will be seeing my family now because I have been isolated and living alone all year and I figure having been infected just over a month ago I am unlikely to pass it on again

Next term will also be a hard slog and I worry about being reinfected again come march April. I know some people will say there's only been 6 confirmed cases but a couple of pupils have had it twice and I think if you can catch it twice you will do if you work in a school and I'm struggling with after affects of the first time Sad

motherrunner · 03/12/2020 06:14

No. DH and I are secondary teachers in Tier 3.

We don’t feel comfortable returning to our OWN home each night as our schools keep closing. It was on our local news yesterday that 1 in 20 people tested positive without symptoms (we have a rapid test site set up in the city). Cases are not decreasing where we live and the numbers in school are actually increasing.

ScubaSteven · 03/12/2020 06:18

I want to stay away from my parents and siblings, I also want to stay away from my DH who is ECV and received a second shielding letter. But it's been impossible, my DM picks up my children from school and obviously living in a house with our DC and I, my DH has only been able to isolate from us in certain ways (separate bathroom and sleeps alone in the spare room).

I tried to find alternative childcare - there was only room in the after school club for one extra night so I've taken it because at least it's reducing contact (increasing contacts for the DC which doesn't help DH), there are no childminders available. On 2 nights a week school agreed to have the children brought to DH in the car so at least DM didn't have to go into the school or be in close proximity to the DC. DH being in close proximity was risky but since we live in the same house it seemed a better alternative.

My DM and DF are insisting on doing our usual Xmas plans where they come to us, I don't want them to, I can't stand the thought that I'll be possibly infecting them. My DM is refusing to listen, saying she could easily pick it up from the shop and that she sees the DC anyway. My DF has been diagnosed with an illness this year (it doesn't make him ECV apparently?) and said life is too short.

I'm seriously torn between making my parents ill from covid or making them ill from stress. This year has been awful for everyone, it would have been so nice to have 2 weeks isolation opportunity so that I could have a few weeks living normally with DH and not avoiding my parents.

I'm not sure why teachers get such bad press about this sort of thing. I know other professions have to keep going and the chance to isolate doesn't exist, but surely if life can be made a bit easier for one group of people then it should be encouraged?

LondonlovesLola · 03/12/2020 06:21

No.
We break up on the 18th and will keep to ourselves for two weeks. We are hoping to see elderly parents just after New Year.

GingerandTilly · 03/12/2020 06:29

It’s not just about teachers with the schools / Xmas thing. Lots of kids could be asymptomatic then spread it to their relatives at Christmas. I live in a tier 3 area. Between me (primary teacher) and the kids we are exposed to 90 other households through our respective class bubbles and have had a lot of virus cases in our schools. We won’t be seeing anyone outside our household.

SonyaCisco · 03/12/2020 06:30

No - 3 schools in our house between me and my children. 5 cases in one of my kids year groups this week alone so too risky to see my parents in the bubble window as one of them is CEV. Was hoping to see them right at end of holidays when it would be safer, but is against tier rules now. Will be seeing my eldest who also works in a school, unless any of us are isolating at that point....which seems like a big possibility currently.

Needingsupportplease · 03/12/2020 06:35

No, I see my mum because shes on her own and is my childcare whilst I work but is mid 50s and healthy. Not seen anyone else pretty much all year so not intending to potentially give them something over christmas!

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