Stupid school

[Tabbydancer]

I don’t know whether to blame the school or the government
As I write my child has been crushed in a queue of 200 kids - the last 20 minutes indoors - waiting for a LFT to see if they are negative so they can return to school tomorrow
The sheer stupidity of testing for an infectious disease in a crush of a queue is mind boggling
The teachers won’t let him go (I told him to walk out of the queue) as he says it is a D of E directive. He is 13 and doesn’t have the confidence to turn around himself (he is texting me)

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Ridiculous

Not sure why the crush of the LFT queue is any worse than the normal crush anywhere else in school tbh.

our school encouraged them to test at home before going to school

my teen got up at 6 to do it

@RedskyThisNight

Not sure why the crush of the LFT queue is any worse than the normal crush anywhere else in school tbh.

The kids don’t normally stand in one hour crushes if kids in mixed use groups in school

Our school is staggering over 3 days. Children who go on school transport in the morning for testing, those who walk in the afternoon. My fd went in this afternoon as she walks so she will just be testing with year 7 children who walk. My son is Yr 10 and will go in tomorrow afternoon..

Our school (in Scotland) asks them to test at home before school. Ridiculous to have them done en masse at school where everyone is mingling and some may be positive

Doesn't sound very organised. My kids had different times to go in to be tested with 10 minutes given per class

We’re in NI and we were asked to test at home before going back to school. It’s pointless bringing them in to school to test because anyone who agrees to that would have tested at home anyway.

We have two teens at different schools, one asked us to home test, the other let you book an appointment for an on-site test. We didn't bother and tested at home anyway. I'm with you, I'd tell him to leave (but I also have a teen who wouldn't have the confidence to do that).

The kids don’t normally stand in one hour crushes if kids in mixed use groups in school

Granted, probably not an hour (though you do say only 20 minutes indoors). But they spend a lot of time on corridors, in lunch queues, in break areas ,waiting to go into school ... Plus obviously time in classrooms. Not sure I'd really consider this to be significant extra risk.
Surely 200 is only 1 year group anyway? (or is this a particularly small school).

I might be missing something here... but why not get the kids to test themselves at registration if its so important that the results are checked by a staff member?

Ours are testing over 3 days with an hour allocated to each class of 30.

I told the school that I was not consenting to on-site testing, and that I would test using LFTs that I got from the chemist. They were fine with it.

It isn't compulsory is it?

Mine is testing in the morning before school.

Our school has staggered it over several days, with kids being given half hour slots to arrive. DD did hers yesterday. It all seems pretty organised tbh.

There's no need for them to be queuing or be crushed together. That's the school's fault.

My DD went and had her test done today. Massive Secondary school - all children tested in one day, 15 minute staggered test times for different groups, mostly using outdoor space for any waiting around.

English schools have done this enough times now to be able to get the process right surely.

Acronym of the day

Omicron = moronic

"at school where everyone is mingling and some may be positive"

No need for hysterics - you realise the above sentence describes pretty every school day this term?

Anagram even .. 😂😂

My Son, who has had covid over Christmas, has been asked to test at home tonight before going in for a test at school tomorrow.

The school should give slots so that not all of them go at the same time. Like last name and year group.

I don’t know whether to blame the school or the government
And yet, you started a thread with the title "Moronic school".

Ours is giving each tutor group a 20 min slot over 3 days, and they go inside in groups of 6 wearing a mask, the others wait outside under a cover

You must have consented to him being tested - what did you think would happen?