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Me & DH tested positive. How will kids get to school?

128 replies

Asvan · 05/01/2022 22:07

Hi,

My DH tested positive on Monday and since then I've been doing all the school and club rounds etc. Kids are aged 12, 10 & 5. They all go to different schools.

I tested positive just now and have no idea how I'm going to get the kids to school tomorrow (they are allowed to go in if they test negative on the lateral flow test every morning).

Me and DH have always done all the runs ourself and all the schools are quite a distance away. What can I do? Have schools been understanding about this? Also would it be awkward to ask another parents to take them especially as we both have Covid?

OP posts:
CoastalWave · 05/01/2022 23:11

Seriously???

You have Covid and you're willing to send your children into school?

Let me guess. You're fully vaccinated too and very anti those who haven't had their vaccines?

Keep them at home. It's actually idiots like you who are spreading covid. COMMON SENSE says keep the hatches shut and keep your front door closes until EVERYONE is all clear (you do know LFT aren't 100% accurate?!)

Titsywoo · 05/01/2022 23:14

@CoastalWave

Seriously???

You have Covid and you're willing to send your children into school?

Let me guess. You're fully vaccinated too and very anti those who haven't had their vaccines?

Keep them at home. It's actually idiots like you who are spreading covid. COMMON SENSE says keep the hatches shut and keep your front door closes until EVERYONE is all clear (you do know LFT aren't 100% accurate?!)

Don't be ridiculous
FortySeven · 05/01/2022 23:16

Just because they can go in doesnt mean they should go in.

This x1000

unim · 05/01/2022 23:17

Keep the kids home.

You're not meant to go out. And to be honest it's crazy that the government thinks that household contacts of positive cases should be sent in to school to sit in crowded, poorly ventilated classes with lots of unvaccinated children and no masks.

FortySeven · 05/01/2022 23:17

@CoastalWave is spot on, actually.

AugustRose · 05/01/2022 23:18

I would not be sending them to school even with negative LFTs. Do your schools not have plans to provide home learning materials (eg via e-mail or online) if this happens? Ours do and I thought it was standard for all schools. It's not ideal but for a few days it will be fine.

Shewalksinbeautylikethenight · 05/01/2022 23:19

In a similar situation here - am +ve bit well, my year 5 DC had covid last week of term so will not be spreading it now. I don’t drive, school is walkable but DC is v reluctant to walk alone. It isn’t straightforward, hope you can come up with a solution you’re comfortable with.

WonderfulYou · 05/01/2022 23:20

Maybe wait it out till next Monday if you can? They will test positive by then if they have caught it. Results take a while to show post infection. If negative, drive them in.

This is a good compromise actually.

You could keep them off for the next two days and by Monday it will be 4 days into your isolation but still not much disruption to them as they’d have only had 2 days off.

I’d LFT them on Monday morning and if negative then send them in and you’d have had the weekend to decide the best way to get them in to school.

musicalfrog · 05/01/2022 23:24

@Dancingonmoonlight

The children going to school is madness. They may catch covid from you and carry it into the classroom. They will be infectious before they show symptoms.
Then again, they may not.

Let them have their education fgs, they've been messed around for long enough.

Oddbobbyboo · 05/01/2022 23:25

My friends dropped there kids in the car, that’s what I think I would do too. My car is on my drive….. no one else, except the post man come near our house so I’ll be in contact with no one else so it makes sense to me to do this too.

Dancingonmoonlight · 05/01/2022 23:28

Then again, they may not.

Let them have their education fgs, they've been messed around for long enough.

They have a higher chance of getting it than not getting it.
It isn't a case that they were unknowingly exposed to covid and unknowingly spread it. They know they have been exposed, they are a household contact and they are knowingly attending school.

Its better for two children to miss a few days of their education than thirty children miss a week because their teacher is isolating and there are no substitutes available.

CoastalWave · 05/01/2022 23:31

It's ok. I"m guessing the OP is the same type of parent who sent their kids in sick to nursery - fuck everyone else paying £70 a day for childcare, I'm spreading hand foot and mouth and don't give a shit etc etc

This post has actually made me super super angry. The lack of respect and not even TRYING to contain the disease.

Does no one seriously give a shit anymore?

pantaloonie · 05/01/2022 23:32

@CoastalWave

It's ok. I"m guessing the OP is the same type of parent who sent their kids in sick to nursery - fuck everyone else paying £70 a day for childcare, I'm spreading hand foot and mouth and don't give a shit etc etc

This post has actually made me super super angry. The lack of respect and not even TRYING to contain the disease.

Does no one seriously give a shit anymore?

This.

With bells on

FourTeaFallOut · 05/01/2022 23:35

Of course any dc who aren't positive should go to school if they can get there independently. They are expected to take regular lfts if someone has covid in the home and then get on with their schooling. Honestly, this place Hmm

jenthehen · 05/01/2022 23:35

And when the teacher catches Covid don’t complain about the school closing.

musicalfrog · 05/01/2022 23:36

@Dancingonmoonlight what do you have against the kids honestly? Leave them alone!

For all we know their teacher already had it over the Christmas holidays, like many others.

If OP kids don't take it in someone else will it's everywhere or had that escaped your notice?

It's completely OK to send kids into school as a known contact. It's expected, it's in the rules. If it wasn't OK to do it then it wouldn't be allowed would it?

Refrosty · 05/01/2022 23:43

We're not sending ours in, DH and I are positive. The school had full class closures last term due to this issue (siblings/parents positive but still coming into school). My son's class is one of two that didn't need to close, I'm not about to try and close it now 🙃

LauderSyme · 05/01/2022 23:47

The rules and guidelines on the NHS website and app actually do say that people aged under 18 do not have to self-isolate when a member of their household tests positive for Covid. Surprising but true. I guess the government advice is trying to balance the harms.

newusername2009 · 05/01/2022 23:50

OP - the rules say send them in. Kids have missed so much school already and they won’t thank us for this in years to come. You’re older 2 really shouldn’t be missing any more if avoidable but let’s face it the 5 year old can prob read a book at home (for 5 mins) and won’t miss too much.

I would drop 10 year old off and get 12 year old to catch public transport.

It is entirely possible your children have already had it and we’re asymptomatic so won’t be getting it again.

All these people stating they should stay home are talking rubbish because that is an unauthorised absence unless you tell the school you really can’t get them in.

WrongWayApricot · 05/01/2022 23:59

Tie DC on the end of a long piece of string with a note to the teacher to give two tugs when they get there Grin

andweallsingalong · 06/01/2022 00:05

Speak to the school, ours would be happy for them to stay home and limit the risk of them bringing it into school.

Similar situation with DD. Me and DH tested positive, she tested negative. Different in that DD was obviously also coming down with it, just tested too early but school were happy for her to be off without putting her through a second PCR.

saraclara · 06/01/2022 00:08

@CoastalWave

It's ok. I"m guessing the OP is the same type of parent who sent their kids in sick to nursery - fuck everyone else paying £70 a day for childcare, I'm spreading hand foot and mouth and don't give a shit etc etc

This post has actually made me super super angry. The lack of respect and not even TRYING to contain the disease.

Does no one seriously give a shit anymore?

You're getting angry at the wrong person. Maybe take your wrath out on Boris Johnson who has decided that family members don't need to isolate when someone in the household has Covid, and who has stated that those children from affected households HAVE to go to school.
Marmite17 · 06/01/2022 00:12

I think that Covid, omicron, hs gone well past the containment stage personally. The crunch will come ie effect on the NHS, when more of the older population get it.
May not be a legal stance on self isolation but cannot see why you shouldn't transport anyone from your own household in your family car as no new contacts.
I would test children in the morning IF you have enough lateral flow tests to sustain frequent testing at the 3 to 7 day period when they may be infected.

BluebellsGreenbells · 06/01/2022 00:16

I think it’s a very grey area.

Positive case at home should be isolating away from everyone in the house. In this situation I would agree they could go to school.

Where a parent can not isolate, lone parent/small children/bedroom sharing etc the I think the child should stay home.

It’s not clear. But it should be.

jenkel · 06/01/2022 00:33

I would test with lateral flow every day and if clear drive them to school.

1 in 15 people now have covid in the uk, we are way past containment.