Teachers are getting COVID at three times the rate of their local community

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Please keep your child at home unless absolutely necessary or vulnerability.

www.tes.com/news/exclusive-coronavirus-schools-teacher-covid-rates-333-above-average

This does not surprise me at all, it was absolutely rife in my daughters school before Christmas. I know several of her staff had it over the Christmas holidays as did some of her classmates

Not surprising really is it. My daughter caught covid from her teacher but it seems likely he picked it up from another student. He is young and healthy. He was ill for a long time and apparently still isn’t 100%. Okay he didn’t end up in hospital or dead but it can be a nasty illness for anyone.

People will be in shortly to explain how teachers are not at risk. Children who were the most infected subset of the population + lots of them + no PPE + cramped indoor spaces.

It isn’t rocket science. Honestly? I don’t believe people are so thick they don’t realise this. They just don’t care because it doesn’t suit them.

What a shocker, it's absolutely no surprise whatsoever.

This is echoed by how many have people have commented on this in the last half hour.

Yes that’s where I caught it from.

As we have also seen the fall in the positive cases in school age children since they closed for Christmas.

Despite the constant ‘schools are safe’ it’s not rocket science to see how it’s spreading.

While that is deeply concerning for those of us who are teachers or love one, could this not have gone on one of the other 467433 threads about how key workers are terrible parents for sending their children to school?
(Before anyone asks, DH and I are both key workers (social worker and SEN teacher) and not sending DC to school despite being eligible, so no ace to grind.)

Totally agree, I feel for the teachers disrespected by the government but then, they don't really like working class people. I think teachers should get higher priority for vaccination I say that as a frontline NHS nurse, I am keeping my DC home, did the last lockdown and continue to. It is tough but I also don't want my DC exposed to higher risk any more than their teachers.

What's also concerning is that the data for this was before the new variant had really got a hold. I suspect by mid December it would be considerably worse.

We had a keyworker parent send their child into school ill on Monday!!!! We had to send the child home by 10.am 😠

Naively, in March I thought teachers might get a bit more respect once parents had experienced trying to teach their own children at home. But, sadly, the hatred spouted towards my profession has been staggering.

Imagine your child's teacher gets really ill with covid. Weeks out of the classroom recovering, becoming disabled with long covid or even dying. What impact would that have on your child? Another teacher who doesn't know them setting and marking their online work. Emotional distress for your child. Grieving for a teacher is something Jo child should have to experience. Nationally, a much bigger recruitment and retention crisis than we currently have.

Teachers nurture and educate our future doctors, nurses, scientists, etc. They are vital for our future. This crisis has shown that children logged onto computers without a teacher present is not enough.

No child not Jo child

@Schuyler I think this kind of information totally 100% deserves to be a thread on its own.

Kitcat122 honestly can’t believe people are still doing that

No shit, Sherlock? Anyone still refusing to accept the blindingly obvious is a numbskull .

Teachers being 3 times more likely than the general local population to catch coronavirus is not a surprise at all, nor is it an indication of a particular problem. The general population includes many people who through their normal lifestyle or through choice have virtually no contact with others and thus have virtually no chance of infection. Statistically this means any "normal" chance of infection will be higher than the local average.

In fact, anybody who works indoors and outside the home will have a higher than average infection rate. Studies have shown that teachers have similar infection rates to many, many other occupations. Those more at risk include shop workers with 5 times the local average infection rate, and health workers with 9 times the local average. An interesting quirk of many studies is that supervisors and managers have an increased infection rate within their occupation - possibly because they have more contact with others in their workplaces.

New government guidelines on Key workers children.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/09/school-guidance-for-children-of-key-workers-changes-again?CMP=ShareAndroidAppp_Other

I'm glad there's a thread on this as today I've already been on another thread with a poster stating that teachers are at no more risk than others.

My child caught Covid at school. 10%.had it simultaneously in the form. No wonder school staff are sitting targets.

I just hope it's not too late. They will all be trying to send them in on Monday.

@Schuyler

While that is deeply concerning for those of us who are teachers or love one, could this not have gone on one of the other 467433 threads about how key workers are terrible parents for sending their children to school? (Before anyone asks, DH and I are both key workers (social worker and SEN teacher) and not sending DC to school despite being eligible, so no ace to grind.)

Why? I felt it was important enough to have a new thread. It's clearly a topic of interest.

If you don't like it just scroll on by rather than commenting on it and bumping it up on Active.

6 of us in my class got it , primary school.

@Honeybobbin

No one gives a shit, sadly.

Maybe someone reading this will keep their child at home now rather than sending them in without it being really necessary.

This false stat was discussed before. There need to compare to the working population which they don't do.

@notevenat20

This false stat was discussed before. There need to compare to the working population which they don't do.

Well above jcyclops says they have been compared to shop workers and health care staff. Not sure where that data is.