Anyone positive but sending negative kids to school?

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I got a message Thursday to say I’m positive so kept DD 6 home from school Friday and her and DH got a test. Test comes back negative yesterday. Neither showing symptoms and DH fully vaccinated so test and trace told me they don’t have to isolate and DD can go to school.

However it’s the week before Xmas and I’m feeling a bit torn on whether to send her in. If she showed any cold symptoms at all I wouldn’t send her in as I only have mild cold symptoms. Feels like any other cold I’ve had. I also had negative LFT so I don’t really trust them.

So I’m thinking to keep her home to avoid ruining anyones Xmas but she has missed so much school in her young life and she will be so sad to miss out on all the fun of the last week. Not to mention we still need to work next week and thoughts of homeschooling and working are bringing back very bad memories.

What are others doing? Just asking for opinions, any harsh comments can be kept to yourself as I won’t respond to them anyway.

Our school insists the children continue to attend even to the point of making arrangements for Covid positive parents to drop kids off at another entrance or school staff to collect them from home if the parent feels really ill.
Their covid case numbers are sky high now....... shocker!!

Not a parent but keep her home. It's just another week and not worth as you say risking others Christmases. Perhaps DH can treat her to something christmasy outside if theyre both negative to make up for missing out on fun school things? Or plan a Xmas movie day at home and make it fun for her with treats, popcorn etc, pj's

I sent my 5 year old to school when I was positive. School told me I had to or it would be an unauthorised absence.

Our school did originally take this approach then had to change due to high numbers.

If I were you, I would PCR again just in case as many children have not got any symptoms at all. LFTs do miss positive cases and shouldn’t be relied on.

I’d definitely keep her home because (not harshly just frankly) your dc having a nice last week of school is quite likely to learn to at least one or more of her mates families having a shit Christmas

I was told I had to send my secondary child into school as normal once he’d tested negative (his sister and I were both positive). He never caught it full stop. I felt extremely reluctant to do this and questioned it twice, but it was the right decision.
It’s so so tough but I’d probably keep him home had it been a few days before they broke up as it could literally ruin Christmas for so many.
Tough one OP and no judgment whatever you decide!

We have been sending our negative kids in, one school wants them in as it's concerned about how much school they've missed. (I am to!)

The other did want them but is now struggling with staff absences so I am not sure whether to keep sending negative child in or not...

We've been testing daily with LFTs and did another round of PCRs yesterday so waiting for the results to see I either of them might be asymptomatic. I don't really trust the lateral flows.

It is so tricky isn’t it? I was positive about two weeks ago and then gave it to my husband. Kids all negative on PCR and daily LFTs. School were happy with that and subsequently there have been no cases in their respective classes. I do understand it is now closer to Christmas which is a different dilemma. What is the school’s policy? Hope you recover quickly

Send her in. Your child legally needs to be in school and this is an unauthorized reason to keep her off.

My dcs's school (and others nearby) have asked that children be kept at home if there is a covid +ve case at home. This was following a large rise in cases that eventually meant half a class (and some siblings) were off with covid.
I would check with the school.

Send her in, they haVe had enough time off.

I sent mine in. Education is important. Children have missed out on enough during this pandemic, she was well, I isolated as much as possible from her and her dad and we lateral flow tested daily. Plus that’s the attendance guidance.

Also I say that as a teacher who have children in my class attending with positive cases in the family…they need to be in school.

My kids school insists on sending them in or it's unauthorised absence. Absolute joke tbh. There's following rules and then there's using common sense. No wonder rates are so high.

Dp tested positive last weekend. He was negative on pcr on Friday evening , positive on lft then pcr on Sunday morning - he was a close contact. Things can change very fast.

I decided to keep mine off only because they have sen and finding it impossible to keep them away from dp who hasn't been isolating in one room - we don't have the space.

I am glad I did keep him off because Ds was negative until Fridays test which was positive. . If I had sent him in before Friday he might have spread it. Dd could go in this week as she's negative but I think I'll keep her off.

Do what's best for you, for us it seemed likely dc would get it being in close contact with their daddy constantly.

My younger children stayed of for 2 weeks when I had it. I was to ill to even get out of bed.