no exit strategy /good news for schools!

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Locally we seem to have massive school outbreaks.
Monday a bubble burst at my child's primary and today his bubble has burst so 60 kids plus staff off.

Another local senior school 31 confirmed cases and entire school shut.
Few local primaries taken option to shut.

Feeder primaries feel like sitting duck's as very little testing.
Not that many are still testing at eldest senior school.

If we not doing any mitigating measures
Smaller classes
Better ventilation

Masks
Offering parents least choice of vaccinating their child.

How is next academic year going to be any different and less disruption than this year.
Eldest has gcses next year and worried already.
We limping towards end of term Another 4 weeks left to spread delta further.

Why is no one pushing the government on school.
The unions seem to have given up.
Phe data is being suppressed on schools.
Feels like before Christmas all over again.
Its been very much postcode lottery what each child has received this year.

Even if they don't get ill sheer disruption for schools and working parents taking unpaid leave whilst their child self isolates.

I think the JCVI are not going ahead with the vaccination of young people with Pfizer because both the US and Israel are investigating the link between the vaccine and myocarditis, especially in young men.

But the q there would
Vax with myocarditis vs pims + heart issues+ long covid etc.
The deaths we had so far need to be mulyiplied by 5 maybe if say 20% of the age group have had it.

Instead of protecting British children, the government are exposing them.

Are CEV 12-18 year olds offered the Pfizer vaccine now? What about CV 12-18 year olds? I would have thought they should at least be offered it if in their case risk of Covid outweighs risk of vaccine.
Rest of the kids should not have to isolate once all adults have been offered the vaccine x2.
It is going to be interesting what will happen in one year when the vaccines of the elderly and extremely clinically vulnerable might expire.
I do think we need ongoing mitigation measures in school with more decision making in the hands of the head teachers and local council as to what is appropriate, rather than e.g central government mandating/lording over everyone that masks are not necessary anymore etc.

Our local secondary schools had a handful of cases in the autumn and none since returning in March until last week and now it seems to be ripping through. Ds15 was sent home on Tuesday to isolate (first time for the whole pandemic) and has now tested positive on an LFT. Awaiting the results of his PCR to see whether we're all in lockdown for the next 10 days.
I am actually now getting concerned for his GCSE's next year.

Something needs to happen for vulnerable children because it won't be long before isolate rules stop in sure. As a pp said we'll limp along to end of term and then in September it'll be daily lfts for close contacts

We are having a third wave - we still need to be a bit careful - in fact at Brownies we are being more careful than usual as we've had far more local cases.
But, only a few more hospital cases (though in younger people) and they're coming out okay.
It's a VERY different scenario than in Dec/Jan.