Feeling shamed for school case

[sequinednostrils]

My ds in yr 3 went back to school on Monday. He went in excited and fit as a fiddle. I got a call near home time to pick up early as he'd coughed a few times. Picked up, no cough Andre felt fine. But went to get him tested anyway. It was positive even though he wasn't ill.
So of course his whole class have to go home and isolate. Parents are annoyed and kids are sad.
Some are saying it's my fault for letting him go to school.
I am now feeling ill and have it, on top of worrying about people blaming me.

“If you’re a member of a household, childcare bubble or support bubble of a member of school staff or a pupil you can now access testing twice weekly.”
This was the guidance for our school from the local authority. (Liverpool).
We have been doing regular asymptomatic tests as a family since November. Our 10 yr old is a dab hand at them now. Why would you not have had your child tested before everyone went back to school?

@sequinednostrils

I've only just found out about the lateral flow tests, the school aren't advising parents should test. It's not well known among the parents here. *@IEat* they don't, but they're on Facebook saying how whoever it was shouldn't have been allowed to go in.

Repeat after me:

Some people are idiots.

They choose to think what they think about Covid, to suit their own situation.

They are probably the same parents who would send a child in with a runny nose themselves, because they don’t want to keep them home. Or the type to avoid testing, to avoid isolation.

But when they are inconvenienced by a confirmed case, they are spitting feathers. They are probably just secretly thinking ‘why did she have to test him...why couldn’t she just keep her mouth closed.’ After all, children don’t spread Covid. Only teachers can do that - siyance (stonks).

Our primary school sent a letter out last week (from our local PH authority) about the lateral flow tests, and so we did tests on Sunday before our kids went back, and quite a lot of my friends did too. It doesn’t seem to have been very well publicised at all though, no one really seemed to know about it until the letter was sent.

Problem with parents testing is that they are then the positive case so although they and child isolate the class doesnt.

If i turned positive i would 100% test the kids too.

"Depends on your authority. Ours are refusing to give them to families with only primary children despite the national guidance."

Rubbish. You can order them online via the link on the government website.

As for "I don't read the website, if school want something they should tell me"

Really? The whole country want you to, not particular schools, yes, just add another thing to their list....or maybe take a bit of personal responsibility.

Anyway, I've told you now and provided you with the link so that's that sorted for you.

"Problem with parents testing is that they are then the positive case so although they and child isolate the class doesnt.

If i turned positive i would 100% test the kids too."

It's not a problem. It's a solution to the many primary children that are asymptomatic but would find it difficult to test twice a week.

Test their parents and even though the tests aren't the best, they do catch many cases before it spreads into school.

When my kids had to self isolate all we could think about was the kid in question and how worried his parents were.

They probably suspect he was coughing before school and you ignored it, which would be annoying, but they are wrong. I remember a few years ago I invited two mums to my house with their kids and while they were here I started coughing. One of the mums then caught the cough and said (in front of other people) that I'd ruined her Christmas. I honestly hadn't coughed before they arrived, same as your son.