Schools and LAs breaking rank to contradict stupid pathetic pointless government attempts to keep schools open.

[Bluegreen70]

Greenwich told schools to close, now Islington too, telling schools to close and not to reopen after Christmas. It’s come to this. People on the ground who can see the real situation overruling the government, who know nothing, understand nothing, and are living in cloud cuckoo land. Many schools are effectively closed anyway. Those that remain open are absolutely on fire with Covid infections. Staff and children are ill. Adults are dying. Children are being left disabled, bereaved, traumatised.. it’s total carnage here, and yet the imbecile nick Gibbs is instructing schools to remain open, and threatening legal action if they close. Has there ever been a minister of education responsible for even a tenth as much death and destruction?

@Mintjulia

Schools are not on fire, children are not being left disabled, stop being so melodramatic.

speak for yourself. Our schools are on fire, and we have children left disabled

@Bluegreen70 us too. Kids now with life long health conditions. Adults in icu and one dead. But yeah, schools are covid safe.

Switched off at the children are being left disabled comment.

OP get a grip.

OP I am very sorry to hear that. The figure I have been able to find for children who have gone on to suffer MIS-C and be hospitalised after Covid (heart conditions, organ failure and other non reversible poor outcomes) is 0.2% of the total number of positive cases. That's an American figure - not surprisingly, the British equivalent isn't available. It's a small risk, but I do feel it's not appreciated enough here and there have been children who have been left with a significantly poorer quality of life. It might have come from a place of anger but none of us have the right to tell OP she is scaremongering without knowing the British stats and her situation.

@BaileyBoos I know a 16 year old who now needs a lung transplant. A 12 year old who can no longer cope without oxygen as lungs can't cope. Might improve but might not. An 18 year old who has lost 2 toes through sepsis. You stick your head in the sand and pretend it's not happening. Like politicians. But we know it is. We see it.

If schools aren’t one fire with COVID year just wait until after Christmas.

The government is moronic. I can’t understand it. They know people are going to mix over Christmas but they won’t stop teens mixing in school the week before to bring down the number of possibly infectious people.

They should have put all teens into a 10 day quarantine pre-Christmas. The numbers in January are going to be astronomical.

Waltham Forest has now joined Islington and Greenwich. All schools have been shut for Christmas by the council now.

My children's school had no cases about a month ago . Now being on fire with the Covid is an excellent description! If your schools are low you are lucky, however don't speak too soon....

@mumsneedwine

I need statistics please. I work in a large school in a tier 3 area and have heard nothing of the sort.

@BaileyBoos good for you. I hope you don't have to go through what our school has in last month.

[quote BaileyBoos]@mumsneedwine

I need statistics please. I work in a large school in a tier 3 area and have heard nothing of the sort.[/quote]
Unfortunately, there aren't any. The American statistics and the lack of a huge outcry in this country suggests that the numbers of children severely affected is very low but is not zero. The best I've found is an opinion article in the BMJ describing anecdotes of Long Covid in children and asking for data to be collected blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/10/16/counting-long-covid-in-children/