Isolating

[berryhead2013]

Hi so far we have been relatively and luckily unaffected by covid but my dc nursery has told them all to isolate for 10. Days as confirmed case within the nursery
But my older dc doesn't have to isolate she can still go to school is it just me or is this crazy and would you still send your other child to school ?? Confused

Yes, I would send the older child. They have to draw the line somewhere and this is where it has been drawn.

At the start of this we agreed we wouldn't keep one child home because the other had to isolate. You don't know how many times you could go through this so you don't want to set a precedent that both children stay home. Hopefully we are getting towards the end of this now but even so I would send the older one to school.

This is what I have done both times my eldest has had to isolate. They've missed enough education without isolating needlessly.

I guess the theory is your LO would be the first in the household to get symptoms so you'd all isolate in that instance.

Yes, your nursery child has had contact with someone who has Covid so needs to isolate. If they develop symptoms then the whole household needs to isolate.

But at the moment the rest of you haven't had contact with anyone with Covid so nobody else has to isolate.