Can school really force my children to go when both parents are positive.

[Louisa111]

Dh tested positive sun..me and dc ( primary age) all had our pcrs this morning all negative. Was informed by the school if they were negative they can still go even though their dad is positive ( crazy rule) .
However this evening I am now showing symptoms , I have absolutely no idea how I would get to school as not asking grandparents or friends.. i think it's only a matter of time before they get it too. What would you do?.

I wouldn’t send them. And tell the school they can record it as they wish.

Surely you just say you are both positive so against the rules to leave isolation therefore the children can’t attend.
Personally I’d take a fine than risk the health of others.

Tell them LF was positive, you're going to re-tets with PCR.
Re-test, childrens names but husbands swab.

I don't think they can enforce fines if both parents are unable to get children to school

Trust your gut - keep him off.

Me and DD were positive by the beginning of last week. DH & DS were neg, so went to work/school. DS came home with a headache but lat flow was neg so went back in the next day. DH then got pos result (after more neg lat flows) so we took DS out of school. He was positive the next day. Keep him home, and as a pp says - let the school record it however they feel. I am gutted that I sent him twice when it seemed obvious he’d get it - and as a primary teacher I’m 99% sure I got it from a child in my class coming in when their parents were positive. The guidance is absolutely rubbish. We’re back to common sense needing to override the official guidance again, and the 3 “official” symptoms are completely outdated.

If neither of you can leave the house and the kids aren't old enough to get themselves to school then they can't go. The school will surely see that?

If you end up positive as well, and the school are still playing silly beggars, email them and ask them to confirm in writing that they are asking you to break the law by leaving your own isolation to take a child to school. Invite them to collect your child themselves. They'll cave.

Just think the news rules the gov have set is madness. The school are only following the guidelines. I haven't sent them in today and we have all done another pcr

You have no option to keep them off if both parents are unable to bring them, unless school is offering a pick up/drop off service that is. Tell school they can record the absence however they like it means nothing to you overall. If their attendance is usually high a week or so off school unauthorised shouldn't create an issue or trigger any fines or EWO visits, and in the unlikely event it did trigger either, no EWO is going to want to come into a covid positive household and I think you'd have a really strong case in court to defend any fine.

They might not get it but not sure how school can force you to send them unless they come and collect them from your door. If you can't get them there you can't

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Tell them LF was positive, you're going to re-tets with PCR. Re-test, childrens names but husbands swab.

Don’t do this. Imagine the fear other parents would have if their children have been sat next to a ‘positive’ case.

I’d contact school and say you are happy to keep them off marked authorised absence. If they want them in so badly otherwise they will be ready for collection at x time.
Absolutely crazy so be crazy back.

Fear they are sitting next to a positive case? All children will have sat next to a positive case by the end of this school year.
We are all going to get it multiple times in our lives. Being vaccinated will stop serious illness and death in all but the most vulnerable to any disease (see flu).
Being unvaccinated - well stupidity kills- it’s Darwin. Being unvaccinated because you are too unwell to have the vaccine- very unlucky. See Darwin.

School have said they can go back, or must go back?

Schools are only following what they've been told: isolation is only for people who are positive, not for child contacts.
No, we don't want you to send them in but we're not allowed to say that.
Except in Cumbria

Yes they can but most probably wouldn't. The guidence is a pile of tosh, most heads that I know of are following a more common sense approach, as they'd rather not have half the school out again with covid.

We're just coming out of the same situation.

I explained to school that whilst I understood their POV there wasn't a way I could get them in.

Not a lot can be done!

Just to clarify - it’s the government’s rule, not the school’s. School are doing the only thing they can which is abide by what the government says, even if they disagree.

Our school if a child is unwell they've to go for a PCR test their siblings are expected to stay off too. It's a heads personal decision around here

realistically if you cannot get them, you cannot get them in. Not sure what schools expect parents to do tbh If they aren't old enough to walk themselves!

I wouldn’t want my child’s medical records to be wrong, to say they’d had Covid when they hadn’t.
I think you’re definitely doing the right thing in keeping them off OP. As others have said if you test positive you can’t do the school run anyway.
My DC’s school have had new guidance from the County Public Health Office asking families to keep children at home if someone tests positive and test on day 4. They’ve said if you have no choice work wise then they can attend, but they hope people will keep them at home. For nursery they’ve said to keep DC at home for 4 days and they can return if no symptoms. Seems sensible to me because cases are very high locally.

It's a ridiculous rule.

I think the meaning of “being in contact with a positive case” was to stop whole year groups all going home when % risk was tiny. But when it’s in the home makes sense to keep everyone isolated. Family just had this in wales were told no uncertain terms by track n trace the whole household had stay off school until 10 days up

Bonkers. DD is a contact but was down with symptoms before we even knew about being a contact.

Keep them off until you have your PCR results. If you are positive then contact school and explain their absence. I don’t understand how you are supposed to get children to school if you have to isolate. I would rather maintain sense and stick to isolating even if it means the children miss school. (Said as a teacher and a parent!)