covid in schools

[shellstarbarley]

My kids school has about 25 kids off with covid and 3 members of staff. As I understand it siblings of infected children can attend school and children can attend if they have positive cases in their household . Failure to attend school can result in a fine. My friend is a TA and her 3 kids and hubby have it and she has been testing daily but as yet she is still negative and she has had 3 still negative PCRS because 3 of the positive cases are in her class but she has been told she still must attend work as normal.

My neices senior school closed yesterday for 10 days as the head is insisting that if you live in the same house as a positive case you must not attend school (if you are a student) and the same goes for staff (if your children or partner have it) you must not come to work.

Just interested in what other schools are doing to protect the spread. PHE says that siblings are allowed to school and likewise adults who live with a positive case can attend work providing they have been double jabbed.

Tbh I don’t need to know.

The last email we got was at start of term saying zero cases. They may have stopped sending out info which is fine.

I think some parents are letting other parents know (if primary school) as a courtesy but seeing as only one parent has done so in the past couple of weeks, I suspect people just aren't testing and treating any illness as a normal cold / cough. I work in a school and kids and teachers are coughing all over the place but all just carrying on.....

I'm a supply teacher. My 2 sons have covid. My husband has covid. X2 pcr and x2 lat flow and I'm apparently negative. This week I'm working in 3 schools over 3 days.

It's mental. It's wrong. But we are SO close to the bread line It's either work or go to a food bank

@scully29

but waxononwaxof (cool name btw) its really awful for our vulnerable teachers and parents, just like giving up on them and I dont want to do that. Id rather we all homeschooled for a week and got us all a pcr to keep them safe? surely thats worth it!

We can't all WFH. I am a single parent working out of the home, I cannot take any more time off to be at home with 8yo DS. We both had Covid in August so no, I do not want to homeschool when I have bills to pay and we likely still have immunity ourselves.

I'm surprised to test negative every time.

Ha, yes me too.

My class is riddled with a virus of some description. Kids coughing the place down, snot everywhere, headache complaints and so on. Some have been off for 3 or 4 days, then back when still sounding awful and not being able to stay awake properly. I asked as a general question who had ever had a covid test, only a few put their hands up (one of these was a child whose mum tested positive - her mum mad her do an LFT every day, she told me about it at the time). None of the ill ones put their hands up.

Parents aren't testing, even if the child is clearly ill. Which is kind of them.

Fines are only issues when children are persistently absent. It’s very unlikely you would end up in a situation of being fined for keeping your child off for 8 days to isolate.