My DS and I both currently have covid- I feel ill with it but he's fine. I only got PCR tests for my children as I had been feeling unwell and had sent for a PCR test, so when I tested positive, I followed the advice to get the rest of the family tested.(Other DC and husband were negative).The school have phoned me and had a go at me for sending DS in to school yesterday whilst awaiting PCR results, despite the NHS advice saying they did not need to isolate if they didn't have symptoms. I explained to the school that I only got PCR tests for them as a precaution- I have been isolating at home away from them since feeling ill at the weekend, and nobody else has had symptoms other than me- but school have made me feel awful. The system is so flawed. NHS told me there was no need to isolate unless they had symptoms or a positive test result. Both kids had negative LF tests and were fine, so I sent them into school as advised, and am now being made to feel terrible for it. I would never have sent them into school if I had been advised not to. It felt weird to, just as it feels crazy for my other DC to still be going in when one parent and a sibling are positive, but I was following government guidance.
The school receptionist was so rude- not what I needed when I am ill in bed!