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School kids not isolating

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JustDanceAddict · 12/07/2021 15:29

DS was a contact last week in school and has had to isolate.
It has meant something really important to him had to be cancelled - he was v annoyed but there’s no way I would’ve allowed him to do it considering the environment where it would take place and how he’d have to get there too.
We have ‘made our peace’ with it and he’s continuing to isolate after a negative pcr (which only tells you if you’re infectious on that day).
Now I hear that some of his friends who should be SI have been out and about inc going on public transport etc.

I get it’s annoying, frustrating etc but it makes it so much harder for me to enforce it if his friends aren’t.

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ButteringMyArse · 12/07/2021 15:33

I'm not at all surprised to hear this. Of course teenagers aren't all going to observe isolation rules.

FancyFlipFlops · 12/07/2021 16:12

We’ve had the same here as well. Both my kids, separately and at different times, have been sent home from school due to close contact. Both of them isolated in their rooms for the whole time until they were given the all clear to go back to school again. But they say that others were out and about and meeting up etc. Does my head in.

GreenWheat · 12/07/2021 16:23

This is precisely why close contact isolation is under review and likely to be significantly reduced in August, especially for children. People are not complying because it is no longer proportionate to the levels of vaccination and testing we have now.

Kakey1294129 · 12/07/2021 16:33

Ds is isolating too. He's autistic and it's been hell but the last day is tomorrow. It seems to be others in his class are not doing the same. He's had an online lesson and one child proudly announced he was staying at his grandparents (I guess maybe due to working parents so okay if grandparents aren't vulnerable). And another announced he's staying at his aunts excitedly. There's no excuse for that one. His mum is my neighbour and she's at home. Baffling. Another was out at the weekend (photos on social media)

I know school bubbles closures are stopping but for now it's the rules.

Lemonmelonsun · 12/07/2021 16:37

Op, I expect your ds is in the minority I know it's all gone to pot where we are, no one takes any measures anymore.

ColettesEarrings · 12/07/2021 16:41

Unfortunately it was over the moment they announced the Aug date a whole month in advance...

Musication · 12/07/2021 16:42

My DD is on her second 10 day isolation with a break of 2 days in between. She is 8 and is so sad and miserable. We are not meeting up with other kids or families but you sure as heck will find me and her going for a walk or visiting double vaccinated grandparents after LFTs. Our young people have given up enough for this. I'm not trapping her in the house again.

FuzzyPenguin · 12/07/2021 16:47

Yes I feel for you, my DS7 is on day 5 of isolating and it means he will miss the first week of the summer holiday. I have seen a number of pictures of his fellow class mates out and about despite also being told to isolate.

HereComesYourMam · 12/07/2021 16:49

Most people I know are somewhere in the middle - so not making their kids isolate in their rooms (), not letting them meet up with others, but taking them out for the odd walk somewhere quiet every now and then, for their mental and physical health. This feels proportionate to me.

Girlmama3 · 12/07/2021 16:51

It's happening here as well. Apparently a negative test means they can go out 🙄 Dd is self isolating and is 11. She's been getting mad at the kids in her class who have been going out.

No wonder so many bubbles are bursting.

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JustDanceAddict · 12/07/2021 17:13

Thanks for responses - He’s not isolating in his room - that would be extreme!
The government have been idiots giving over a month’s warning that you don’t have to isolate any more as we all know people think that applies immediately- school letter in red font ‘even if you get a negative pcr you still have to isolate for 10 days’
I haven’t been a slave to Covid rules - I’ve turned a blind eye to some of the things he’s done - but I do still think if he got Covid and hadn’t isolated when prompted (therefore spreading it) I would feel terrible.
Non-vaccinated kids are the spreaders unfortunately.

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BoaCunstrictor · 12/07/2021 17:15

@ColettesEarrings

Unfortunately it was over the moment they announced the Aug date a whole month in advance...

Although it was happening anyway, that just speeded things right up.

HereComesYourMam · 12/07/2021 17:19

@JustDanceAddict it was a PP who said their kids were isolating in their rooms... yep seems pretty extreme to me too!

Spikeyball · 12/07/2021 17:45

I would take autistic ds out for exercise but he wouldn't be going near other people.

fullonflock · 12/07/2021 18:46

Yep. I had one child isolating last week and I know some of her class didn't bother. Second child isolating this week, I suspect he'll be in the minority in actually staying home.

Tatapie · 12/07/2021 18:48

@ColettesEarrings

Unfortunately it was over the moment they announced the Aug date a whole month in advance...

Agreed. But although I sympathise with people who think we should get on with it , I am lying here , double jabbed, rough with Covid after catching it from DS. If I hadn't SI then I would have spread it about! Crazy

Lemons1571 · 12/07/2021 18:54

What about those who are told by school to isolate straight after actually having covid though? So, they get a positive covid test. Do 10 days isolation properly. Go back to school for 2 days. Then put back into a 10 day contact isolation.

Are they really capable of incubating a new dose of the virus 12 days after testing positive the first time? Is this really “following the science?”

OliveTree75 · 12/07/2021 18:55

@HereComesYourMam

Most people I know are somewhere in the middle - so not making their kids isolate in their rooms (

), not letting them meet up with others, but taking them out for the odd walk somewhere quiet every now and then, for their mental and physical health. This feels proportionate to me.

Agree with all of this

AlandAnna · 12/07/2021 19:37

It’s pretty rough missing out on so much and watching adults spraying booze and slobber all over each other watching the football.
My eldest is SI but I’m taking her to walk the dog and we got a drive through McDs. We are in a different place to a year ago.

loulouljh · 12/07/2021 19:41

Because they have had enough of this shit show I imagine. Tough though when you are following the (nonsensical) rules...

TopTabby · 12/07/2021 19:49

It’s pretty rough missing out on so much and watching adults spraying booze and slobber all over each other watching the football.
This 100% . Local BBC news have just reported on the massive numbers gathered together in a very fond way.
Yet others are expected to self isolate?
Utter madness & unsurprisingly people are refusing to do it.

BoaCunstrictor · 12/07/2021 19:51

My children certainly won't be observing any isolation notice they receive now. I shall take them to outdoor spaces as I judge appropriate.

Wellbythebloodyhell · 12/07/2021 19:59

About 1/4 of DS year is off isolating at the moment quite a few of them were at a party on Friday night. My nephew is off isolating at the moment, he was at my DP having their normal weekend playdate on Saturday. Quite frankly anyone who thinks keeping children regularly isolated is OK needs their heads testing, especially when it seems thousands can gather at a football/tennis match on the pretext of a negative lft thats likely never been tested and just logged as negative and our MPs can pick and choose what rules to follow....but yeah let's keep on isolating healthy children

FATEdestiny · 12/07/2021 20:10

My year 10, 15yo DS's recent life:

● 11 June - SI
● 19 June SI end

Sun, Mon, Tues not isolating

● 23 June - SI
● 2 July - SI end

Sat, Sun, Mon not isolating

● 6 July - SI (He'd only been there 1 day!)
● 15 July - SI due to end

Now, call me irresponsible I dont care. After fully insisting he never leaves the house for the first two, he cried when he heard about the third isolation. A teenage boy who rarely cries, he was properly devastated at the unreasonable, prolonged social isolation he is facing.

He's not going to school or sports clubs. I'm LFT daily. Im letting him go out with mates though. Plus he's goes to the local field with his Dad and siblings most evenings to kick a football around.

gluteustothemaximus · 12/07/2021 20:14

Our large secondary school (1400 kids) were doing amazingly well, mass testing at the start, kids testing twice a week at home, we didn't see any cases AT ALL for months. No bubbles sent home.

Until masks came off, and Delta variant came in.

Now we have most of year 7, 9 and 10 out.

However, it has also been down to so many parents saying 'it's just a cold' and then it's covid.

Child at school with sore throat, runny nose and cough. Called mum to get him for a PCR test, she said it's just a cold/cough, he stayed in school. Asked him to at least wear a mask, mum said, he doesn't like wearing a mask

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