I know we are meant to send children in to school with a household covid case but it feels odd

[Revengeofthepangolins]

Am finding it really uncomfortable that DS (15, single based) will be going to school tomorrow although I have covid. He took a pcr on Monday which came back clear and will LFT but still I feel squirmy about it. I feel I should tell his school that I have it but also feel socially uncomfortable doing so.

Plus, it requires me to try to be really strict about trying to keep very distanced from him (staying in my room all the time) and it is making him feel really lonely (DH is away).

And if I do tell school and then he comes down with it later in the week, I will feel dreadful that he will have infected others. But under the new rules, he is meant to go in; it seems perverse to inflict isolation on him that isn’t required.

I work in a care home (disabled adults, not elderly) and we have to go in even if we have a household case. Daily LFTs and weekly PCRs are done but it feels very wrong to make staff work when close family members have it, especially young children who can’t be socially distanced from.

Yep I had to send my daughter in to school last Friday even though her twin brother got a positive lft. Then low and behold she got a positive lft the next day and now the rest of the family have it too. So she probably spread the COVID germs around the school when i should've kept her at home. The school said I had to send her in.

@middleager. Well, I can certainly see why volunteerism for more isolation would be pretty unappealing to your son, especially as he has had it already.

"he spent 70 days in isolation, over 7 isolations between last September and Dec." @middleager that's dreadful. Young people must be so fed up.

It's madness. My daughter's class currently has 8 positive cases. Whilst waiting for her pcr result I was going in to the same school to teach. Turns out it was negative. 3 weeks in and we have a staffing crisis, pupils off in all years. If I could quit I would as would a lot of staff. I can't see it getting better and as a parent knowing there are 8 positive cases in a year 7 class ( some missed by lateral flow tests) I'm livid that the government have pretty much abandoned schools to it.

All our cases in our primary school are from siblings who have it. We didn't have a single case up until September, now we have quite a lot. We have had a very small number of families keeping all their children off if on head it and they have been told it will unauthorised but no fines will be given out.

On head should be one has!

@flumposie

It's madness. My daughter's class currently has 8 positive cases. Whilst waiting for her pcr result I was going in to the same school to teach. Turns out it was negative. 3 weeks in and we have a staffing crisis, pupils off in all years. If I could quit I would as would a lot of staff. I can't see it getting better and as a parent knowing there are 8 positive cases in a year 7 class ( some missed by lateral flow tests) I'm livid that the government have pretty much abandoned schools to it.

I realise it must be really tough at the moment, but I don't think there are any grounds for thinking it won't get any better. Once it's worked through the school, it should get back to normal in a few weeks.

I feel like we just have to go through this process as education and routine for kids is important without educating this generation it means there is no future anyway

@gogohm

The problem is that covid is endemic, it's not going away. Pre covid if you had a cold, a cough etc you still went to work or school - cev always were at increased vulnerability, covid is no different, but we didn't shut down our lives every winter.

The first wave through of covid shocked us with the numbers who died, but it was because none of us had immunity, but now because of vaccination and many people catching it it's just a virus and we need to get used to it just being around

Very true. All those schools where Covid is rife now will likely be fine by October and for the rest of the year. Had we continued to suppress every cases by sending home contacts and closing classes, those schools would likely have had disruption well into 2022, and for what purpose?... Very similar numbers would likely have been infected in both scenarios!

The other option was to vaccinate them.

@Ttbhappy

I feel like we just have to go through this process as education and routine for kids is important without educating this generation it means there is no future anyway

I don't understand this view that there was no option. All of the rest of Europe are educating their vaccinated children, with some mitigations in schools.

English parents seem happy to have their kids infected, I just don't get it.

This has been a nightmare for me.
I’’m 40 weeks pregnant and toook my kids out of school last week, clearly getting Covid right at due date isn’t ideal! However the government are letting it run rife, prob hoping winter is better, but September/October seems to be the worse month to be due.
I could deal with the school bubbles going but I can’t deal With the household bubbles going. Makes it so risky.
Or course this is the first baby I have ever gone over due with too! 🤦🏼‍♀️

It's peculiar advice I agree.

I had to send dd in and work myself with + at home.

But at work there are loads of students with slight repetitive coughs, sneezes no one bothers to catch etc, Moaning about the cold