School kids not isolating

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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.

@FATEdestiny

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.

I'd of done exactly the same as you, its cruel its unnecessary its bordering on emotional /psychological abuse to continue this charade on healthy children

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.

Why on earth were they isolating in their rooms??!! Bloody hell that's just cruel.

Most people I know are testing their kids regularly during isolation and are letting them out for walks. It's just wrong to lock kids up for weeks on end.

@FATEdestiny
Right approach. I’d have done the same. Hope he is ok. It’s not fair, not right and the government just doesn’t care

I’m surprised your isolating your child

I actually think yabu

No one is following this

Bubbles end next week

Did you see the cross last night?

Aduktabare alloqed to avoid isolation wit lft tests? Why on earth would you make your child isolate? I think you’re out of order

Unless cev of course

All vulnerable vaccinated

Let your child be

No one cares

I've stopped making my kids isolate. They're not going in friend's homes, shops or public transport but I'm not stopping them going to the park. It's getting ridiculous keeping perfectly well children locked inside.

@FancyFlipFlops

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.

Why the hell were they isolating in their rooms? That's totally ridiculous and OTT.

To be honest, all of these school bubbles bursting is just a complete joke now. Nobody is paying it much attention now. The kids are off school but not isolating, and why should they? It's utterly ridiculous.

If your child goes on to test positive, how do you get around that with T&T? You’d have to admit they were sent home from school to isolate but you didn’t enforce it and they’d been to McDonald’s Sainsbury’s and the cinema? Or would you just lie to T&T and say they’d isolated properly?

OP I agree with you about the one month notice. One of the many failings of the government over the pandemic has not to realise which things should change with notice, and which without.

Unfortunately because of how the so called 'bubbles' were set up it always meant that the majority of children are being forced to SI and miss education while being perfectly well.

The latest figure given out last week were for every 1 case in children another 19 were forced to SI.

Hopefully come September only the child that is ill will be the only child will be the having to SI.

I think, like a pp says, the 'bubble' system for self isolating leads to ridiculous numbers. Here it's actual close contacts, so within schools it's those who sit within a distance of each other in class (strict seating plans) and those who socialise in certain settings during break and lunch times etc. Our school have had very, very few cases, and just a small number of close contact isolation as a result.

That said, mine would be made to properly SI if asked to. I'm coming at that from the place of not having been asked to do so before (so not tired by the whole thing) and the luxury of having a decent sized outdoor space to use. We also wouldn't SI from each other within the home. I suppose these things would make it an easier decision.

Yes we had the same thing a few weeks back. From what I saw most of ds classmates did isolate but there were a handful who didn't and weren't even quiet about it either. Photos on social media of them enjoying days out in busy places. It's really not on.

I get that people are fed up and the rules couldn't last forever but their choice to ignore isolation could affect other people and they just don't seem to care. I saw that one school mum had still taken to dc to an indoor sports class. Imagine if he'd tested positive after that and the potential consequences for every other child and parent there. Personally I just wouldn't want to be that person.