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How many isolations?

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LoopTheLoops · 20/06/2021 22:02

Just got an email today to say my sons class has to close again and isolate AGAIN, this is the 7th time! Because I have other children it means we all have to stay home and I have to keep the other 2 at home as well for 10 days because I have no one else to do the school run with the others. 7 times now! Yet some people have seemed to only need to isolate once, or not even at all. How many times have you needed to isolate?

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namesnamesnamesnames · 21/06/2021 07:56

Zero. Plenty in my daughters secondary school have though. We have just been lucky.

PracticingPerson · 21/06/2021 07:58

@BingBangBong1

This is exactly why they need to bring in the Lateral flow testing daily for those near a positive case. It's getting ridiculous!
This suggestion is so stupid it is hard to know what to say.

'We have a very inefctious variant that risks the country being unable to unlock fully' 'I know, let's help it spread faster'

Every year the Darwin awards used to amaze me but having read a lot of Hmm Covid responses I have started to wonder more people haven't won one tbh.

MarshaBradyo · 21/06/2021 08:00

I don’t think it’s stupid from pp isolating isn’t harm free to children, as much as this part is dismissed on here

LemonCake79 · 21/06/2021 08:01

And yet, that is exactly what they are trialling @PracticingPerson so it can't be that ridiculous as ideas go.

Ethelswith · 21/06/2021 08:01

Of my DC in education: one DC currently in SI (positive case in his sports team) but that's his only, other has also been lucky and has had only one from school - but there have been two others that affected much of her year group

Just heard there is surge testing beginning in next council area. So I suspect there might yet be cases appearing in school before they break up

Floobydo · 21/06/2021 08:04

None.

We’ve been very lucky - 2dc at school & dh & I both work in schools.

Autumn101 · 21/06/2021 08:05

Poor you OP, I think you’re been really unlucky….. It’s no wonder you’re fed up.

Neither of mine have had any isolations yet (one in primary, one in secondary) - no cases at all in the primary at all so far, a few in the secondary but different year groups.

Terrazzo · 21/06/2021 08:07

None here either. I have just isolated for 3 days but that’s because of a medical procedure today, none to do with school or anything else actually.

MaybeCrazy2 · 21/06/2021 08:12

None.

If a kid in class has a positive test then just close contacts to them have to isolate, not the whole class or year group.

SleepingStandingUp · 21/06/2021 08:13

@LoopTheLoops

I don’t drive, school is 20 mins there and 20 mins back, we walk I don’t have a car
At our school they tell you to being the others in late and collect them early so you miss the other parents. They know you're technically breaking isolation but it's how we do it

We've had 1 isolation in our class, a few other years have had a few each

Winnithegreat · 21/06/2021 08:13

1 dc had to isolate once due to a burst bubble, and we all isolated once whilst waiting for the result of a test (24 hours).

In your case I would also seriously consider walking the others to school and take your son with you. It’s a lot of school to miss with 7 isolation periods.
Good luck!

YerAWizardHarry · 21/06/2021 08:13

My son hasn’t had any. I’ve had one at my own school last November.

StyleAndLasers · 21/06/2021 08:16

Twice, both times primary DS. We are currently doing the second one, and have heard nothing from the school as to what if any schoolwork he is supposed to be doing this week. DH woke him up this morning as he forgot DS wasn’t going to school! I have heard that plenty of DS year group have been seen around and about which is frustrating when we have cancelled family visits etc.

Frazzled2207 · 21/06/2021 08:21

It is an absolutely disgrace especially how it is has clearly impacted people in certain areas/schools far more. Surely this is not sustainable.

We’re in GM and have been very lucky so far touch wood.
One son once the other not yet.

Frazzled2207 · 21/06/2021 08:22

Ps I too would be doing everything I can to send the other two to school even if that meant walking everyone.

NC277 · 21/06/2021 08:23

We're on a first. Year 1 - full year bubbles. As above, also heard other children in his year have been out and about which really pissed me off haha. I'd be losing my mind at 7 times though!

TheTurn0fTheScrew · 21/06/2021 08:56

7 is really unlucky.
DC2 has had to self isolate twice. In September the whole school shut after a staffroom outbreak, and in March a kid was positive in her class.

DC1 is at high school and they only isolate who they deem to be close contacts. We've had a few near misses with positives in the same class but no isolation. H and I have been in the workplace throughout but managed to dodge it.

AliceLivesHere · 21/06/2021 09:15

Yes it is ridiculous. It has to stop. Should be able to return once a negative PCR after just a couple of days. Entire class of son still off and none have developed Covid from the one child that set it off and caught from a family party.

I think some that argue differently haven't had to self isolate their children and keep missing work and school.

OddestSock · 21/06/2021 09:24

My 10 year old is isolating for the first time. Her class bubble has closed twice but the first time was just at the end of the last lockdown when it was just keyworker kids in, so she wasn't affected.

LadyCatStark · 21/06/2021 09:26

None and to be fair, I don’t know anyone else who’s had to either although a few people in DS’s class have I think.

LadyCatStark · 21/06/2021 09:27

Oh no wait that not true sorry my nieces have had to once each.

Medianoche · 21/06/2021 09:44

One child had to isolate once for a school bubble popping. Whole family have had to isolate 3 times while waiting for PCR test results when one of the children had a fever or cough. It’s so unlucky that you’ve had to isolate so many times.

At our school, one positive case means the whole year group have to isolate. It’s a trade off in the risk assessment which allows the children to play with friends in other classes in their year group and allows group work etc. There’s no way to reliably track which children were in close contact with each other over a two day period before the positive test/symptoms, so you either have to keep children apart at all times (and hope your ventilation is good enough) or isolate everyone if a case does occur.

We’ve had messages this week reiterating that children isolating shouldn’t leave the house to take siblings on a school run. Slightly shocked that people have suggested it would be okay to take an isolating child in a car to take a sibling to school. One minute sharing a car counts as close contact. Seems a great way to spread it straight through all the other year groups in school.

Vanillaradio · 21/06/2021 10:02

Ds has isolated twice- once for a case in his class and once because I tested positive. We also had school closed for a couple of days for a deep clean due to an outbreak largely amongst staff but ds was in one of the three classes that didn't have to self isolate and could go back after the deep clean.

Volhhg · 21/06/2021 10:07

Just take him along on the school run and stay away from the school yard if possible. Ridiculous that schools think parents can get other people to do school runs twice a day for between 10 and 14 days. You would need to draw up a rota of parents! It's alright as a one off but unless someone walks your exact route at the same time how can you? People have different schedules - breakfast clubs and some drive and take bikes for onward transport to work. It's not really the case that everybody is friends, walks to school at the same time and lives in the same catchment. Outdated presconception.

SleepingStandingUp · 21/06/2021 10:26

One minute sharing a car counts as close contact. Seems a great way to spread it straight through all the other year groups in school these are siblings and parents they live with though, possibly share a bedroom bad a bathroom with. DS is 6, there's no way if he was isolating we could keep him away from everyone else in any meaningful way.