So angry with school!!

[thereisnophalange]

Yes, apologies in advance..it's another school bashing thread.

DD14 went back to school on Tuesday after having to isolate for 10 days due to a case in her year group (she'd had no contact with the positive case)

Yesterday morning, her year group were dismissed again after 3 days!!!! to isolate for a further 10 days due to another positive case.

AIBU to think the school have royally fucked up here by insisting the year group return to school knowing full well covid is ripping through schools at the moment?

I'm so, so angry at the school for making them go back and gutted for my DD, who now has to spend yet another 10 days in isolation.

Not the school’s fault.
Fwiw my son lasted a whole day back in school before SI started again.
I was (am) furious, but am not taking it out on the school

Ps by having kids in school, rather than at home, it possibly lessens the risk of spread as if not at school the children might meet up and be all over each other anyway

@Frazzled2207

Ps by having kids in school, rather than at home, it possibly lessens the risk of spread as if not at school the children might meet up and be all over each other anyway

Not really.

It would be really very hard to replicate the sheer number of close, indoor contacts a child will have in school with general social contacts.

DD - finished Y13 - would, in a normal school day, have been in very close contact with around 50 people per day (A-level teaching groups plus small group of close friends), more distant but still close indoor contact with masks with about another 70 (sixth form centre + bus) and possibly incidental contact in corridors etc with more.

She would have to have an exceptionally busy daily social calendar to meet up with that many in a day! When she caught Covid last week, she took out a grand total of 15 people, the total of her close social + hobby contacts over the 48 hours before she got symptoms. It would have been even lower had it not been for a 'let's watch the semi final together' evening - and she's far from being a hermit.

@thereisnophalange

Yes, apologies in advance..it's another school bashing thread.

DD14 went back to school on Tuesday after having to isolate for 10 days due to a case in her year group (she'd had no contact with the positive case)

Yesterday morning, her year group were dismissed again after 3 days!!!! to isolate for a further 10 days due to another positive case.

AIBU to think the school have royally fucked up here by insisting the year group return to school knowing full well covid is ripping through schools at the moment?

I'm so, so angry at the school for making them go back and gutted for my DD, who now has to spend yet another 10 days in isolation.

So sorry your DD is having to self isolate again. I’m not sending my youngest DS back next week as he’s just completed 10 days isolation and next week is the last week before we break up for summer. I know 100% there will be another lot of isolation if I send him back as there’s been so many cases these last few weeks.

As others have said, you are directing your anger in the wrong direction. Be mad at the government by all means, or even at PHE, but none of this is the fault of your school.

I was talking to a headteacher this morning who is planning on resigning at Christmas.

Totally dedicated to the job and to the children, but the unreasonable parental responses are just grinding her down.

Parents complaining because bubbles are closed; school is open but they don't want to send their child; trips are offered; residential abroad can't happen; sportsday didn't happen last year so there should be two this year to make up for it; sportsday happening this year but with no spectators despite 60,000 at Wembley, thus 'stealing a right of passage' from the parent; 'moving up' sessions held outdoors to avoid bursting bubbles; not being allowed into the cloakrooms to kiss child good bye; teachers not wearing masks in the class when teaching; lunch supervisors wearing masks; hild sent home with temperature and coughing...

You name it, there has been a prental complaint about it this year.

Our secondary never sends out whole classes. They use the seating plan to work out who sits near the infected children. Only my daughter wasn’t sent home recently as they’d forgotten to update the seating plan since moving kids around. Schools are just following the rules laid down to them

YABU. The school has no control, PHE sets the rules and schools have to follow. The government is to blame. Write to your mp if you are angry.

Yabu. Your anger is misplaced. If you want to blame anyone then blame the government.

Yes YABU

If you send your child to a state school then the clue is in the name. STATE school. As in ‘funded’ (barely) and controlled by the state.

Even the eight year olds in my class knew that it wasn’t our headteacher that sent our bubble home each time we isolated 😒

We had 2 full years groups plus about a third each of the remaining two out this week, the head wanted to close and go to remote learning but PHE wouldn’t let him. It’s not the schools fault, the government don’t want people knowing how bad it is there until it’s too late.

I think it's difficult for school. If they decided to keep them home and do the remote learning, I'm sure there are parents who gets angry too.
It's not school's fault. It's pandemic. We can't control the virus.

You really need to do a bit more thinking about the chain of command here and how organisations work. Have you ever worked in an environment where there are policies and a hierarchical structure? There seems to be a lot you don't know and you're just making yourself look foolish.