Statically even clinically vulnerable children are unlikely to die of covid.
More likely than healthy children yes. But still much less likely than most people and other illnesses still present a greater risk.
The anxiety that is going on, isn't reflecting reality.
The situation is different for older people / parents, but then there's limits to what you can do if there are no restrictions anywhere. Testing is only going to pick up a small number of cases - and is made somewhat pointless if household members of covid positive houses are not in isolation - because of the rate of household transmission and test back to school/work strategy is fatally flawed.
The government has made a decision to put this as policy even though its bonkers and in some areas PHE is actively going against this policy and telling schools to advice parents to keep siblings off school in this scenario where there are large outbreaks occurring.
Then you've got loads of work places where no one is wearing a mask and so many commercial premises aren't bothering anymore. I don't hear cries of 'everyone working in places without masks should be testing constantly' on these threads. Its always about schools and how children should be doing this that and the other.
There's very little about addressing uptake levels in teenagers or young adults. Last week a friend was telling me about how they'd had two vaccination sessions at her school up to that point. It was 150 students per session. It was full. But lots of kids didn't get a slot even though they wanted one and the school hadn't yet got another session booked. This is a school of over 2500 pupils.
Its easier to target and hit out at parents of young kids instead rather than have conversations which are practical and pick up on ongoing issues which are being actively ignored or dismissed. Probably because little kids can't go on tv and speak up for themselves.
Because its anxiety not rational thats talking.