Home learning with covid

[Thirtyrock39]

I have two kids covid positive and one that I'm keeping home . Annoyingly the negative child seems to have had very little work set even though it was one of the things school promised as an incentive to keep her off but the other two have loads.
Are you making your covid kids do the school work? One of mine is still really poorly with it ,though is on iPad in bed so I suppose could do something , but I don't think well enough to do much. I feel this is a bit of a hangover from lockdown when schools were under pressure to provide home learning - or possibly it's for kids awaiting test results stuck at home
Personally I feel it's too much if they're positive to be doing.
Just wondered what others are doing.
I do appreciate schools can't win and it's not a teacher bash at all I was just really surprised when I checked the online portal at how much work was set
Possibly if my son perks up in a day or two I'll be glad of the work set but at the moment he's in bed all day
I might read him some horrible histories or something later on

I haven't been in this position yet, however, I would make any negative children do the work and any asymptomatic children but not if they were ill. I wouldn't make my kids work during a sickness bug so the same applies here.

Dd1 has been off since Thursday with it, at first she was too poorly to log into home learning, today she's logged on and no work has been set 😡, she's doing A level so is stressing she will fall behind she's still unwell but wants to do what she can so she doesn't fall behind.
Dd2 has tested negative twice over the weekend and has gone back to school.

The direction from the government is that schools should set remote learning for kids who are covid positive but not unwell (I.e. asymptomatic). Kids who are poorly should not be doing the work but focusing on getting better.

Teachers have no idea who is feeling well enough to do work or not. As a teacher I don’t even know who has covid until officially informed and that takes a while and then I would set work for the next day. It’s a bit of a shambles, and they are coded on the register same as any other kid off ill.

The DD doing A-levels should contact her teachers to ask for work if she is now feeling well enough to do it.

If they’re sick let them rest. The ones without symptoms should be doing stuff though.

I wouldn't be making my kids do school work if they were feeling poorly with covid or any other illness tbh.

If they were at the tail end of a covid & feeling a lot better or positive with minimal symptoms then I would do the work! Or in your case if I had a negative child I would try. I feel it would be hard to nurse sick kids and home schooling non sick kids. Not enough hours in the day.

If my child is poorly I am not going to stress them out doing school work. They can rest under a blanket with the tv on!

My son is 15 and insisted on working from home, even though he had Covid and had been poorly.

I could not disuade him, and I tried. He felt he needed to study as he had had 7 10 day periods of self isolation by last November (and that was excluding national lockdowns!) and his school was hit hard and no work set in the very beginning.

The pressure in exam years is there. As a parent, I can do my best, but he was stressing about falling behind and at 15 I cannot 'enforce' a no work rule.

It's a sorry state of affairs, as I have another in exam years who would no doubt be the same if he had Covid.

Yes it's my year 11 who is negative who hasn't had much sent whereas the younger ones are poorly and have loads. I do think schools are under pressure to provide work in the hope that parents comply with keeping kids home if ill or awaiting test results, I hope the government aren't putting pressure in them to make sure poorly kids are working though but nothing would surprise me !!
Do I email the teacher to say my son is too poorly or should I just assume it's 'optional' to do the work ?

A Y11 who is negative should be in school so there is no obligation on the school to set work?

I think surely it would be:

• If well enough in a pre-covid world to still go to school, do schoolwork at home.
• If you’d have kept them off for the same illness in 2019 simply because they are unwell, then they are unwell and shouldn’t be home learning.

@noblegiraffe

A Y11 who is negative should be in school so there is no obligation on the school to set work?

When I asked school what there policy was they said 'our priority is to keep everyone safe so if you were to keep her home we will provide online learning ' - they made it very clear they'd prefer her not to be in- my husband thinks I should have sent her but my son went back to a different school last week (dd2 was the only positive pcr at this point) and after two days started with symptoms and is now positive so I'm very glad I didn't send my year 11 back as I feel so guilty for sending my son in even though it's the new rules. I'm sure my name is mud at the school gate and loads of kids have it now (there were a lot of already though) . Im also having to work from home while household contact as is my nhs policy so it seems much safer to have her home