Last day of dreaded school calling…

[mightyducks]

Today should be the last day you can can get that dreaded call from school ….the sinking feeling of another child isolating, the stress and anguish it causes, I wish you all a phone call free day! It feels like a big moment for me

Great, so up till this thread some people were hoodwinked and some people were lying. We agree.

If it helps you go with that.

If people can’t tell what a campaign is doing that’s how it is. But you’ll find it for many things so you may feel ripped off. Who cares though!

Btw would you have preferred more parents kept their dc at home due to anxiety over Covid?

You know what I would have preferred, Marsha

@Abraxan "If they've already started isolating they must finish it according to the information we had today."

Could you put thus onto a bit more context? My primary school are intending to welcome children back in next week, who are only 5 days into their isolation period - they seem to be applying the new rules to retrospective positive cases which doesnt feel right to me - is this some clear national guidance? Im wondering whether to expect them to change their mind over the weekend? Thank you!

Well it wasn’t going to be an option so you got dc in with parents not afraid or not.

And children luckily were not hugely affected it was community transmission that became the issue.

We've never had a call from test and trace, dc school texts - what happens if you don't answer to test and trace because you're on holiday or just don't answer unknown numbers? Genuine question, not got plans to evade any calls!

And children luckily were not hugely affected

Apart from their hugely disrupted education?

@noblegiraffe

And children luckily were not hugely affected

Apart from their hugely disrupted education?

I’ve hardly not said much on that.I have a big issue with repeated isolation, and even more with people who wanted to reduce in school time more with ‘rotas’ etc

Huge damage.

Good thing it’s stopping now. Finally.

Yeah I didn’t argue for rotas.

We got the call today for my year 10. Which now means his sister has got to cancel her 10th birthday plans, gutted. Also even more annoying that they are sending them home based on a LFT rather than a confirmed PCR.

@Angel2702 false negatives on LFT are much more common that a false positive. They will be fairly certain it is indeed Covid so need to act quickly.

[quote iloveredpandas]@Angel2702 false negatives on LFT are much more common that a false positive. They will be fairly certain it is indeed Covid so need to act quickly. [/quote]
A lot of them have also been falsifying LFT to get out of school.

@Angel2702 ah yes I read it was a 10 yr old not yr 10! You would have thought the parents would check, but I guess you never know!

Got the text. The driver on ds's special school transport has tested positive today so ds misses the last week of school and is supposed to self isolate ( which won't be happening as bollocks am I doing a week inside with him).

community transmission that became the issue.

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The 'community' which caused the most issues regarding transmission in my school in the autumn was very much the school community, not outside of school. Well, not once we'd had once case in.

So mere weeks from the government trying to tell us schools were covid secure, and being told my numerous posters on MN that children don't get and spread covid, why did more 75% of a school's staff- who weren't mixing with one another - several parents and numerous children test positive all within a month or so?

It was always nonsense that children couldn't catch covid or spread it.
It was always nonsense that schools could ever be covid secure.

Sadly an awful lot of people is real life truely believed that to be the case, including several MN posters all the way through until fairly recently.

@Sockwomble Commiserations.

Likewise - DD and all her Y6 class now miss their last three days of primary school.
They had so much planned and were so looking forward to it. Weather set fair for outdoor party and everything.

So gutted for them.