Really high cases in my local school

[CovidinPrimary]

In two year groups of my local primary school approx a quarter of kids have tested positive in the last week. Public health are involved.

Part of me expected this, but part of me feels very nervous. My DD is not in the year groups impacted but has likely come into very close proximity of many kids who are now infected and will continue to do so, covid is just allowed to be rampant in schools.

It’s really shocking, I have never seen even a cold virus spread as fast in comparison. School are taking mitigation actions as advised, but these just involve trying to stop the impacted year groups coming to contact with other year groups: impossible for reasons such as siblings etc.

The rationale part of me knows that if DD gets covid he will probs be fine (at least short term who knows long term!) but the scale of how it’s spreading in school is just alarming.

I feel like I have been forced to risk accept my child will get covid and it’s not sitting right with me

@Mybalconyiscracking

I am glad they are back at school, they are not going to be killed by Covid, all sensible people are vaccinated, what do you want to happen?

Being vaccinated is not an impenetrable shield!

Look at it from my point of view - I'm a CEV single parent to a 6yr old and have ZERO friends or family capable of looking after my child. If my child becomes a carrier and I therefore catch it and become ill - yes, I'll likely be fine as I'm double vaccinated. However who will look after my child? Nobody. She'll HAVE to go into care ffs.....

Oh and I know it's the norm to disbelieve anyone on MN who says they have no family/friends available for childcare but this is FACT. My Mum is elderly & very ill and my friends are all abroad.

Before you ask, nope, nobody on child's father's side either. He's dead as are ALL of his family.

Yes, really.

@Frazzled2207

absolutely bonkers that the government did not take the opportunity to vaccine teens in August to give it time to work before term started.

Better late than never I suppose but it would appear the government's policy is basically to let it rip through all the secondary (and perhaps primary) schools and once everyone's got it, then there will be a strong herd immunity factor. No I don't agree with it at all!

Neither do I frazzled. The vaccine should have been offered so all those who wanted could have had at least their first to give some protection before term started. And now with the whole, no close contacts in school thing, it seems like most of them are going to catch it before they ever have the chance of getting a jab. A lot of school aren’t even bothering to warn parents of cases any more.

Most sensible adults are jabbed now but can still have a nasty bout of Covid. And there are a good number of unvaccinated under 40s who may end up seriously ill in hospital, putting pressure on the system.

A lot of school aren’t even bothering to warn parents of cases any more

That’s not school policy it’s government policy.

Schools don’t make the rules, they follow them.