To think I should have a right to know how many cases at school?

[Workinghardeveryday]

I have 3 kids, 2 at Primary and 1 at High School.

I have asked this morning if I can be informed of any cases in my children’s classes and been told no.

I am CEV and there is a good chance the vaccine didn’t work. I homeschooled up until March, realised I need to let my kids get a proper education, after all I am no teacher!

I would however like to be able to weigh up the pros and cons of sending them if a child has tested positive!!

Nobody has a right to know anyone else’s health issues.

That is very true and I totally agree.

I do not want to know who tested positive, just if there are cases in their class. It’s nothing we weren’t told before. Now it’s all a big secret!!

I'm finding out via WhatsApp groups but appreciate this isn't happening for everyone.

Just do lateral flow tests every day on your children. Even if there are positive tests, you can't be sure of incubation periods so it's not an exact science.

Sorry to hear this, @Workinghardeveryday .

My school do phone and tell me if there's a class case, as it's one of the things they promised when trying to get my kids back into school.

They've been brilliant throughout, tbh, but I think I've been lucky.

It certainly doesn't seem to be the policy.

General policy, I mean.

We get a letter home via email if there is a confirmed case within school and are notified separately if the child is a close contact.

We got a letter out when there was a case in class saying don't isolate but maybe shove a swab up your kids nose. Are s hooks really not disclosing to close contacts??

Thank you all. My dd15 was sat in a class yesterday and they were all doing tests. Boy sat next to her tested positive. He wasn’t asked to go home or anything! Carried on as normal!! I have not been contacted.

Both schools said they have had confirmed cases but it is government policy now that they cannot disclose how many or which classes.

Again the government going out of their way to make life more difficult - well for people like me anyway!!

“Boy sat next to her tested positive” - he should’ve been sent home and close contacts notified (don’t think the school have to do the latter though).

You are assuming that the school themselves actually know. At primary, you are reliant on the parents actually testing and notifying the school.

I would also be very cautious on taking a teenager at their word about anything that goes on in school.

What would you do with the information?

Presumably you won't tell other parents - you don't want the information to be a gossip.

But if there were 0, 1, 2 or 3+ cases in each class each week -- what would you do with that info for yourself?

Schools no longer have to identify close contacts. There is a ‘warn and inform’ letter they can use if they wish to, but it’s not compulsory.

I think it’s safe to assume that at any given moment there will be a few kids with the virus in the year group.
It’s also safe to assume that everyone including your child and you will be exposed to it over the next several months. Everyone is going to get this. If you have been double jabbed you chances of having a mild illness are overwhelmingly in your favour even as a CEV person

The scenario of children sat in a class doing covid tests and a child not being sent home when positive sounds very odd. What were they doing the tests for then?!

Did you previously get to know how many chicken pox,norovirus, hand foot and mouth, measles, flu or any other virus that circulates in school cases there were? If not why would now be any different? Presumably you are and always were potentially vulnerable to any virus not just specifically covid?

Our school are still informing all parents of every positive case in school, and the class they’re in.

I have asked this morning if I can be informed of any cases in my children’s classes and been told no.

Also I assume you aren't the only CEV family within the school so if they do this for you they'll have to do it for them all. School staff have enough to do already without informing individual families about information that's not being shared to the school as a whole. It might be a 2 minute job to you, but it's a 2 minute job for every CEV family and them 2 minutes inevitably add up.

Why do you think the vaccine hasn’t worked ? So you basically want to know so you can decide that you can send you dc in school , in case they pass onto you even though you’ve had the vaccine but you think it hasn’t worked?.
Op this is no way to live !

What woud you weigh up exactly? You can acheive whatever you want to acheive by assuming there is always a positve child in the class which is a safer assumption for you anyway as there is always the possibility of undetected/unreported cases

@Wellbythebloodyhell

I have asked this morning if I can be informed of any cases in my children’s classes and been told no.

Also I assume you aren't the only CEV family within the school so if they do this for you they'll have to do it for them all. School staff have enough to do already without informing individual families about information that's not being shared to the school as a whole. It might be a 2 minute job to you, but it's a 2 minute job for every CEV family and them 2 minutes inevitably add up.

My child's school do it for all CEV families. It's a massive school, too.

They do it, because they are decent.

I expect you think that's taking away time from the other children. Your children.

I expect.

@Imnothereforthedrama I am very immune compromised so have been told I have a very small chance of the vaccine doing anything at all.

@Wellbythebloodyhell I would like to know how many cases especially in my children’s classes so I may weigh up if I would like to continue sending them to school. I would much prefer they went to school but ultimately feel having a mum alive trumps going to school. I cannot do this without the relevant information. It’s nothing that hasn’t been freely available before.

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch here here!!!!

Our primary are sending out an email if they get a case in a class. The secondary said they'd let me know but they can't be since dd says quite a few are out. I'm in the same situation, CEV & immunosuppressed. My 15 year old had their first vaccination a few weeks ago. Has yours been called?

My children's school have informed us of when there has been a positive cases in our child's class, no names obviously and give us the option of collecting our child and taking them for a PCR test.
I'm not aware that anyone has collected there child but I know a few did LTFs when the kids got home.
We also find out who the child is as the parent will let our year Facebook group know.

I think you do have a right to know. We all do. We're responsible for our children's health, and the government says we have to take our own responsibility - how can we do that it if we have no information to go on?

We've been so careful as a family for 18 months now, and now it just feels like we're going to all get it, just before the chance of jabs for 12+ too!

Everything is "back to normal" without masks or ventilation or any kind of mitigation. It's going to rage through the classes now. Our school has notified us that there are cases, but not how many, or where, which is pretty standard.

I feel complete despair at how little protection I'm allowed to offer my own children. It's wrong, completely wrong.