How many senior school children are doing their regular lft testing?

[Dandy82]

My ds is doing it as requested by the school twice a week but we constantly get emails encouraging the kids to do them so I'm assuming a lot of people aren't anymore?

Most aren’t. Particularly with holidays coming up that would be ruined by isolation.

Also, I imagine a lot now aren’t testing, as their children have recently had covid. so don’t want to confuse matters with a fake positive due to shedding the old virus.

2 adults plus high school child texting 2x weekly. Primary child also testing since the bubble burst and they were sent home.

We have long since stopped. Every case on the school bus results in 40+ kids missing school for 10 days. A case in a class can result in even more losing out.

If everyone in school was LFTing twice weekly as requested I genuinely think the result would be that school would have to close.

Mine is all her friends are.

Society tends to blame kids for this virus so I assume the constant “kids don’t do it” is less backed up by fact and more schools jumping on the anti teenage retoric which has become very popular in the last year rather than based in fact.

On facts a country that seems to be doing about 1 million tests a day - more than America which has quite a few more people probably does have quite a lot of teenagers testing but as I said doesn’t fit with the narrative so you will still get a lot of people telling you “none of them test”

Mine is, but only once a week. I can't seem to remember to do it twice!

About a third of dh’s tutorial group said they’d done one in the last week or soz

Stopped doing it ages ago as they’re so unreliable, it’s an absolute joke. Could tell you ten different anecdotes about results being wrong.

I’m a nanny for secondary school kids and the kids and parents do it twice weekly as a matter of routine. The kids have told us that most of their friends are not though.

Well, the school told me that they weren't accurate and couldn't be accepted as proof of covid free status so I really didn't see the point of doing them any more.

Furthermore, the plastic waste generated by testing all these healthy children is an absolute scandal. It's almost as if everyone's forgotten that David Attenborough documentary.

I saw it in the media as being around 15%

Mine seem to have lost the habit.

We do it. But I very rarely report the results as it’s such a faff.

Anyone with any sort of morals at all is still testing

@Orangesandlemons77

I saw it in the media as being around 15%

15% reporting the tests to the government, but most teens are not reporting negative tests

@0None0 we aren't testing because my kids have just had covid. One still showing positive on LFT 12 days after positive PCR. So if we keep testing, and tell school, they won't be allowed back even though T&T say they are no longer infectious.

I tested negative on every single LFT, even the same day my PCR was positive.

Not sure how useful they are tbh.

[quote poshme]@0None0 we aren't testing because my kids have just had covid. One still showing positive on LFT 12 days after positive PCR. So if we keep testing, and tell school, they won't be allowed back even though T&T say they are no longer infectious.

I tested negative on every single LFT, even the same day my PCR was positive.

Not sure how useful they are tbh.[/quote]
Obviously you are not expected to test in those circumstances

Dd keeps forgetting. I’m not reminding her I don’t want to jeopardise anything! I do 2 lft a week but won’t after my last tomorrow for school.

Mine is!, and regularly reminds me and DH to crack on with it. I do mine for work in a school and have continued even though we're on hols now. Dh orders his online so he joins in with us.
Most of DDs friends have given up though.

@FlorenceWintle

Stopped doing it ages ago as they’re so unreliable, it’s an absolute joke. Could tell you ten different anecdotes about results being wrong.

Could tell you more than that of picking up cases and preventing outbreaks Mine are

@WrongKindOfFace

We do it. But I very rarely report the results as it’s such a faff.

Yeah to be honest this I'm not great with

Not really since the false positive. He finishes school this week anyway.

We are all still doing them. I’ve seen data recently that suggests that while they are far from perfect, if done properly they can pick up a high proportion of those who are actively infectious. I

If anyone is reading this thread what happens if you refuse consent to your child doing LFTs?

DC is starting (state) secondary in September and we have been asked to give consent to these tests which is voluntary? Although it doesn't appear voluntary from the tone of the letter.

Not saying I will refuse before anyone starts in but I'm interested what happens if anyone has refused.

Broken up now but ds was doing them approx once a week when we remembered before that. He won’t be doing them over the summer.

Also, I wasn’t bothering to register them beyond the first few weeks.