Isolating from school... or not

[JemimaMoon]

Both dcs sent home as close contacts this week. Seems like a whole load of the kids from their year groups have taken it as a holiday and are out and about with their mates. It's all a bit of a joke really.

It drives me mad. Both of mine have been SI this week and my 13 yo has had a day added due to another bus contact testing positive.

We'll stick to it because that's what's right and teaches the kids the right lesson. It's a shame the parents can't be fined. Maybe they would then.

I won't be making DS isolate if he gets sent home at this stage. Couldn't care less about "what's right" any more, I'll do what's best for us.

I'm not making DS isolate. Those we're in contact with know the score and can choose or not to mix with him. Im not taking him to restaurants etc but he's not staying at the house at this stage.

With attitudes like that, god help us.

@Waxonwaxoff0

I won't be making DS isolate if he gets sent home at this stage. Couldn't care less about "what's right" any more, I'll do what's best for us.

O yeah? And how is it ‘best’ for your DS to make him complicit in spreading a deadly virus and possibly being complicit in causing a new wave, a variation or the death of someone he knows.

We have students at school who’s parents allowed them to do what was ‘best for us’ during the first wave, who are now a little older and wiser and racked with shame and guilt, and despise their parents for allowing them to put themselves in that position, when they were young and stupid enough not to understand the implications.

Not only will they be living with the guilt for life, their relationships with their parents are unlikely ever to recover

Don’t moan when we lock down again then.

I am so sick of lockdowns and all those who cause them - from Johnson to the people here

Completely agree with u op I am sick to death of people ignoring the rules and even after a year ppl cant seem to wear a mask correctly, my ds is isolating due to a school case and the parent had sent the child in when she was positive and risked 30 other house holds

Yep unfortunately it happens far too much. Not just now when people have had enough but before too.
Back at Christmas a family I know well had 2 secondary kids off as close contacts. Year 10 and 11 I think so not babies. They accompanied their younger siblings on every fucking Primary School run stopping to chat outside local store.

In the old days a truancy officer would be questioning people being out of school, there almost needs to be something similar for isolating school children if out and about in a public place during term time. Not sure how it would be enforced though

I’m not making my child isolate. Firstly, I can’t leave her alone for a couple of medical reasons. I have to go to work. She will have to go to her (healthy, double jabbed, fairly young) grandparents.

Secondly, we know which a child was positive. She doesn’t sit anywhere near him. Does speak to him at all. From Monday she wouldn’t have been classed as a close contact. I will keep her away from dancing and I won’t let her go into shops, but if she wants to go fit a quiet walk with her friends in the same situation, she certainly can.

So many isolating kids playing out in the street here. Which means my kid's need to stay in because their Dad is ECV, so essentially we end up practically isolating because they won't, which is totally unfair.

Ds will still be going out for exercise. He has severe autism and will not cope with being indoors for that length of time. Obviously if he had symptoms we would have to put up with the violent self injurious behaviour but I am not doing it without them if he is just a contact. He won't be playing with others.

After a third isolation in eight weeks between them, I take my ds's out for exercise now. They don't meet friends and we don't go in to town, but we have been for daily walks in the local fields and woods. Frequently we don't come within 200m of anyone let alone 2m.

@0None0 yeah yeah. Heard it all already. I'm past caring. Close contact isolation is stopping in August so people will have to deal with it.

What people seem to forget is that many kids have been sent home multiple times to isolate because of large school bubbles, they don't know the child who tested positive or sit close to them yet they have suffered massively by following protocol and being kept indoors away from people.

In our school bubbles not a single kid has tested positive after being sent into isolation which is great, yet also very frustrating! Hundreds of thousands of healthy kids missing school is ridiculous - the dfe/govt know the impact this is having which is why the rules are changing.

A lot of people have rightly so, had enough - it's not a surprise that as we move towards the rule change people are jumping ship early.

@0None0 bloody he'll that's a bit dramatic!

How do you know these kids 'despise' their parents. Very strong word to use.

[quote iloveredpandas]@0None0 bloody he'll that's a bit dramatic!

How do you know these kids 'despise' their parents. Very strong word to use. [/quote]
They have told me. They can’t forgive themselves for not taking the first lock down seriously, and they also feel that their parents, as the adults in the situation, were responsible for making sure they understood, and confirmed to the rules.

One boy tells me his parents belittled and sneered at people who were sticking to the rules, and so did he at the time. Now he is older and wiser he literally hates what they did. He feels nothing but contempt for his parents now. He is only 17, but says his relationship with his parents will end on his 18th birthday

No wonder numbers are going up. This time around all our isolating bubbles at school have gone on to have more cases. Really hoping that anyone not isolating takes a PCR and daily LFT, and keeps out of public places if nothing else - we don't have any idea who we're passing it onto.

@Girlmama3

It drives me mad. Both of mine have been SI this week and my 13 yo has had a day added due to another bus contact testing positive.

We'll stick to it because that's what's right and teaches the kids the right lesson. It's a shame the parents can't be fined. Maybe they would then.

Well tbh when they are isoalting because of a close contact and they haven't even seen the other child or their friends it's a bit of a pisstake

@JemimaMoon

Both dcs sent home as close contacts this week. Seems like a whole load of the kids from their year groups have taken it as a holiday and are out and about with their mates. It's all a bit of a joke really.

It is a joke, yes. The point at which teenagers were compliant with this has been and gone.

I refused to keep DS locked up when he was told to isolate as a close contact (someone on the same school bus apparently). It was only 7 weeks since he’d had covid. He was hardly going to get it again so soon afterwards. He didn’t get it (unsurprisingly). I have absolutely zero regrets.

@iloveredpandas

What people seem to forget is that many kids have been sent home multiple times to isolate because of large school bubbles, they don't know the child who tested positive or sit close to them yet they have suffered massively by following protocol and being kept indoors away from people.

In our school bubbles not a single kid has tested positive after being sent into isolation which is great, yet also very frustrating! Hundreds of thousands of healthy kids missing school is ridiculous - the dfe/govt know the impact this is having which is why the rules are changing.

A lot of people have rightly so, had enough - it's not a surprise that as we move towards the rule change people are jumping ship early.

Agree with all of this. Currently on our fourth isolation since half term (multiple kids). I'm a sticking to the rules but so fucking sick of it.

Massively pissed off that the world is returning to normal and children are being totally neglected. Again.

One boy tells me his parents belittled and sneered at people who were sticking to the rules, and so did he at the time. Now he is older and wiser he literally hates what they did. He feels nothing but contempt for his parents now. He is only 17, but says his relationship with his parents will end on his 18th birthday

I hope he doesn’t expect them to find him through university - ungrateful little shit.

We have one DC isolating. There was a confirmed case in her class so the whole class was sent home. She said she doesn’t play with the person who is positive and all children tested, including her, have had a negative PCR (I don’t know how many were taken for tests but at least 15 of the class). We are still isolating her as we don’t want to give her mixed messages but given all the tests the risk is tiny. She’s out of isolation on Monday anyway. But I do think there’s so many mixed messages (Wembley crowds anyone?) that a lot of people have given up.

Cheers to everyone who can’t be arsed to follow the medical requirements. If my mother’s cancer surgery is delayed because of people like you spreading it to her or the hospital staff, we’ll know who to ‘thank’.