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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I believe most people who test are either trying to protect someone CV or are people who work in the public sector and are happy to get the - paid - time off work

Well, if that is what you believe, it must be true!

@VanLife

Acronym of the day

Omicron = moronic

Oooo I like it

A lot of people saying test at home but we have been unable to get tests for a couple of weeks. I asked my daughter to get some from school as they are the only places that seem to have them

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

Exactly. Our school allows offers staggered testing at school or at home. Not difficult really

Entirely your school at fault. Other schools are staggering them or putting smaller groups together to be tested.

It all sounds very dramatic if people are getting crushed.

My daughter tested at home for exactly that reason. I didn’t want her standing in the queue with everyone else waiting to do their tests and thought it was better to test at home.

They took them all into the hall for their vaccines on the Friday and by the following Wednesday closed the school due to incredibly high numbers of positive cases….

@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)

Blame the school. The government ask secondary school kids to test; how the schools implement that is up to them.

Like many, ours staggered the tests over the course of 2 days - 10 min slots to tutor groups.

For me personally, it's over kill as my son tests regularly in order to visit his grandad in a care home, and we have been doing the twice weekly testing as recommended. Thinking back to a thread here a while ago, people were saying they had stacks and stacks of boxes of kits sent home from school that they weren't bothering to use.

If the school does the test they know for sure that each pupil has actually done it.

(DFE)

We’ve been told they were given tests pre Christmas and to use them tonight or tomorrow am before school at home.

Ours staggered them by form. DS (also 13) said he only saw other people from his form. The negative people stated at school, the positive people were to be sent home, but did said that everyone in his tutor group was negative.

My DD's secondary school asked them to test Monday night before returning yesterday and they were then tested once they got to school too. There were a few that my DD saw waiting in isolation who had tested positive yesterday but negative at home on Monday.

DD’s school has a couple of year groups a day testing.

We were asked to test before school returned but they are also being retested at school over 3 days - it's not a massive school so that seems doable.
I think some schools are better at the logistical planning than others

Why aren't they testing at home and uploading to the government app

Mine are primary age so not dealt with this but can sympathise. Queueing in close proximity to others to get a test is ridiculous. You could also be negative one day and positive the next.

I have a photo. It is a sea of heads.

That sounds ridiculous! My teens test at home then in tutor groups.