At what point do hundreds of children (who have tested negative) stop being kept away from school for ten days?

[dameofdilemma]

21st June?
September?
Never?

There's little point Boris banging on about ending wfh and everyone cracking on with helping the economy when whole year groups are still being sent home to isolate for ten days (regardless of how many negative PCR tests they have).

Not to mention how the schools are supposed to manage with younger teachers nowhere near vaccinated.

Back to normal? Are we fuck.

I agree with @cantkeepawayforever. Schools should be treated the same as any other workplace.

@CarrieBlue

When Us4Them have their next meeting with prime minister and show him the next lot of material they hold over him?

Sadly this could well be true!

@Kitkatchunkyplease

My school only sends the child with the positive result home now and close contacts stay in. They are tested daily and can stay in school as long as the tests are negative. I assume we will continue this way for some time.

This is a trial, which may or may not be successful. My DS goes to a school on the other half of it where isolation of close contacts happens but they agree to test each day at home.

As it’s research, it may or may not continue beyond the research period.

Yes, sorry, it had been mentioned earlier in the thread as a trial but I should have said.

When close contacts of positive cases do not have to isolate in any other section of society",

I’d be interested to know how many workplaces are sending 90 employees home to isolate for four positive cases....

I’d be interested to know how many workplaces are sending 90 employees home to isolate for four positive cases....

How many of those workplaces are working with no social distancing at all and no masks, and with groups of at least 30 working in an enclosed small room together for an hour at a time?

if schools had strict social distancing, reduced numbers in etc, then the number of close contacts would, obviously, be less.

@CarrieBlue

When Us4Them have their next meeting with prime minister and show him the next lot of material they hold over him?

Is for them have been fantastic. Speaking out against the appalling way this govt has treated children. I support them all the way.

@Wildswim

When parents stop complying and start kicking up a fuss.

I've stopped complying. Dd doesn't test twice weekly and luckily her school has stopped masks anywhere in school. We're done with this shit.

When children attend schools which are not staffed by adults, and don't live in houses with adults, then i would see their stance as reasonable. Treating school staff, and to a lesser extent the families of schoolchildren, as collateral damage to the needs of children, is not acceptable.

If Us4Them had lobbied for all school staff to be vaccinated as the very highest priority, to allow schoolchildren back into school WITHOUT this collateral damage, they would have been MUCH more credible.

It does feel like an issue that needs to be addressed. Hopefully the trials will help with decisions for next stage.

In my sons primary since may bank holiday, every single year has isolated for 10 days each, and now some years are in their second 10 day isolation. In year 3 16 cases amongst kids in a year of 60 kids. That’s a pretty high rate !! It’s extremely disruptive I ageee but I don’t know the answer

Is it the government or individual school who decides to send a whole school year home? With cases in my sons secondary it's only those sitting next to or in front/behind the positive case that have to isolate. Wondering whether that's the schools decision to make.

You will get whatever you accept.

If schools and GPs can get away with staying at home on full pay - guess what they will do.

Stop eating the line that they are heroes and working so hard and start pushing back and calling them out for their policies. Don't allow them to suggest you are a granny killer for not being unquestioningly obedient

@Roonerspismed

Never? Who cares about missing weeks of school, months over winter

All that matters is no one gets sick

Is that a joke?

@Stitched77

You will get whatever you accept.

If schools and GPs can get away with staying at home on full pay - guess what they will do.

Stop eating the line that they are heroes and working so hard and start pushing back and calling them out for their policies. Don't allow them to suggest you are a granny killer for not being unquestioningly obedient

Teachers work full time - in fact more - when they or their students are at home, because online learning (usually in parallel to in-person learning in school, in other words twice as hard work for staff) has to be provided for any students isolating.

Please don’t let this turn into a teachers v parents thread...that’s not what its intended to be at all.

I rate the teachers at dds school highly. I think they are genuinely struggling with what is and isn’t safe, what they should and shouldn’t do etc, whilst trying to provide children (many of whom are underprivileged) with an education.

The guidance from government hasn’t been clear at all (which is probably why different schools take different approaches).

Boris needs to stop changing his message to whoever he’s trying to impress on that particular day and be clear and consistent.

@Stitched77

You will get whatever you accept.

If schools and GPs can get away with staying at home on full pay - guess what they will do.

Stop eating the line that they are heroes and working so hard and start pushing back and calling them out for their policies. Don't allow them to suggest you are a granny killer for not being unquestioningly obedient

good one