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!!

@PastMyBestBeforeDate

Yes Major it has been asked. Many times.

Ah - OP doesn't seem to have answered it though.

Not just on this thread.

Any change in the school's approach, OP?

Well done @EarlGreywithLemon and others for putting the 'I'd rather my child didn't get exposed to covid' side.

" all it means is that your child won't get covid now, they'll get it later. What I'm hearing in the posts here is a desire for children never to be exposed to covid, which is nigh on impossible, no matter how many masks or how much ventilation is used."

Okay, reading these posts, it seems @TheDailyCarbunkle that you possibly don't hold any faith in the vaccines, or don't understand what they do.
Right now, my sons are in secondary school. They are eligible for the 12-15 jabs. I don't know when they'll become available in my area, but it'll be within the next month or two. IF I am given information about how many cases there are in their year or class, I can make a pretty fair assessment of how much risk there is. Not perfect, but it's a start.
And if there are no cases until the jabs happen, then I could keep them off for those extra couple of weeks until the jabs kick in and they get a bit of immunity.

So then, by the time the virus inevitably spreads to their classes, the jabs will help their bodies to recognise it, and so will make their illnesses much less severe than they might have been, they could cut their risk of long covid by half, or they may not even get it because of those jabs.

A caring government could see the 100,000 positive cases in school children last week and immediately put lessons online for 12-15s just for a few weeks, until they were all jabbed and a bit immune. That would then protect the 11 year olds in their classes, as so many around them would be jabbed, everyone in secondaries could relax and get on with education as normal, and then the government could focus on mitigations in primaries.

No-one elsewhere is actively allowing their children to get ill like this. It's wrong. It's morally wrong, and as one of the parents who has spent the last 18 months keeping my children safe from this virus, missing the chance to go on holidays, missing seeing relatives (including funerals), I will be distraught and frankly furious if they now do get it now a vaccine is available and approved but not yet distributed. What has it all been for?

OP, our school has had more than one outbreak now, and while it's still not telling us how many or where, it has written about changing some of the routines back to having mitigations. So hopefully many others will do the same. I hope yours does too.

Oh god don't start that up again, please. I agree with you but it's exhausting.

@PastMyBestBeforeDate ??

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch primary have decided they will let everyone not just me know of any positive cases within the class!!! Result.

Being a whinge pays off!!!

Well done Workinghard!

Great news @Workinghardeveryday! All fingers crossed for you and your family.

Sorry. Not the thread in general! Just the earlier episode.
Glad you've got a result :)

I don’t even know how many cases are in the school I work in, beyond that there’s 3 in my class and about 6 in another class in my year group. I’m CV. We aren’t informing parents of every case and I have to say I think that’s fair enough…

However, like a PP said we have sent a letter about change to routine if a class passes a threshold and then parents will be informed which is good I think

I think the information should be available if requested. For example
If someone is vulnerable and wants to be reassured of cases I think that is a reasonable request.

But then others don't want it "shoved down their throats" so upon request, yes it should be available

@duffeldaisy

Well done *@EarlGreywithLemon* and others for putting the 'I'd rather my child didn't get exposed to covid' side.

" all it means is that your child won't get covid now, they'll get it later. What I'm hearing in the posts here is a desire for children never to be exposed to covid, which is nigh on impossible, no matter how many masks or how much ventilation is used."

Okay, reading these posts, it seems @TheDailyCarbunkle that you possibly don't hold any faith in the vaccines, or don't understand what they do.
Right now, my sons are in secondary school. They are eligible for the 12-15 jabs. I don't know when they'll become available in my area, but it'll be within the next month or two. IF I am given information about how many cases there are in their year or class, I can make a pretty fair assessment of how much risk there is. Not perfect, but it's a start.
And if there are no cases until the jabs happen, then I could keep them off for those extra couple of weeks until the jabs kick in and they get a bit of immunity.

So then, by the time the virus inevitably spreads to their classes, the jabs will help their bodies to recognise it, and so will make their illnesses much less severe than they might have been, they could cut their risk of long covid by half, or they may not even get it because of those jabs.

A caring government could see the 100,000 positive cases in school children last week and immediately put lessons online for 12-15s just for a few weeks, until they were all jabbed and a bit immune. That would then protect the 11 year olds in their classes, as so many around them would be jabbed, everyone in secondaries could relax and get on with education as normal, and then the government could focus on mitigations in primaries.

No-one elsewhere is actively allowing their children to get ill like this. It's wrong. It's morally wrong, and as one of the parents who has spent the last 18 months keeping my children safe from this virus, missing the chance to go on holidays, missing seeing relatives (including funerals), I will be distraught and frankly furious if they now do get it now a vaccine is available and approved but not yet distributed. What has it all been for?

This. The mentality that lots of people 'might' get this illness has been turned into everyone will or has to get this illness. Other countries have addressed ventilation in schools, vaccinated 12-15 year olds etc. This policy of almost trying to ensure everyone gets it is wrong and unnecessary. It was not inevitable that all kids caught covid, it was a policy choice.