If you have Covid in your household are you still sending your negative kids to school?

[JamieNotJames]

I think this is more a question of what is morally right and not legally right.

DS 8yrs tested positive on Sunday and was immediately kept off school to self isolate.
DD 5yrs has still been going in to school this week and we've been doing LFTs each day which continue to be negative.

I tested positive today and something doesn't sit right about still being able to send her in to school. If DH was to also test positive are we still able to take her to school?

Also, DD has a couple of activities and parties at the weekend. If both her and DH remained negative would you send her to these with (triple jabbed) DH?

I did, but my negative DC and I had had Covid the projections month while DP was away for work, so I felt reasonably comfortable that DC and I wouldn't catch it off DP when he came down with it.

Why keep a child home who isn't ill? I sent my dd6 into school and done other activities and I was clad she did because she didn't catch it. Keeping her home letting her miss out Would of been for nothing.

Older DS tested pos last thurs. Sent younger DS in Friday. DP tested pos Sunday, I took younger DS in Monday, after both tested neg on lft (and I'd done pcr on the Sunday too as felt unwell, but not main 3 symptoms). I did another lft after taking him as I just didn't feel right. It was pos. So I had to ask school to bring him out as I needed to get him home as there would be no one to take him or collect. I've had to keep him off since Monday. He can't go back until I have a neg lft. Dp (who isn't his father) has to be in work for 6.30am so if he gets out of isolation before me, both DS will still have to stay home. Somehow younger DS is valiantly staying negative. Older DS is on day 6 (still testing pos yest and today). Me and DP do our first tests tomorrow but as we are symptomatic still, I can't see neg tests, but time will tell. I'm fully expecting younger DS to test pos after we all get out of isolation - because that's the kind of luck we have.

I'm just having this debate with my DH now. Three children, two of which tested positive, the last one tested negative. All had the same covid symptoms of a high temperature. The one that tested negative temperature has returned to normal now. She doesn't have to isolate legally and even a pcr says she hasn't got it. I just don't belive the tests.

"I would hope you would be cautious a bit different with kids, keep distance, wash hands . Kids touching everything, sitting next to other children singing in assembly's, ect when they could be infectious prior to showing pos also I’ve seen how kids wash hands "

Of course I am cautious, I was classed as CEV when such a thing existed. I teach thirty 6-7 year olds in a tiny classroom, I can't keep a distance. I touch all of their books. I regularly wash my hands and sanitise. I have to sit in the assembly hall with the whole school.

Just seems odd that most people think siblings should stay at home and not go to extra curricular, yet adults are fine to?

@ThievesTemple unless you're a teacher

I won't. I'm a teacher currently isolating with Covid, almost certainly caught from my pupils. It's been like a wild fire throughout school, kids off with Covid but siblings attending only to test positive days later, in all classes, day after day, like dominoes. Kids obviously ill for days before they're tested. We're on our knees, can't get supply teachers for love nor money, several staff out, two with serious Covid complications related to their asthma.
The guidance can do one.
My kids will not be going to school. Yes, they're "missing out". But I really care about their teachers, support staff and their friends. I don't know who has underlying health conditions or who is immune suppressed. While they could be incubating infection, while I am still testing positive, I can't justify sending them. And no mention of them missing out will trump my sense of obligation to keeping vulnerable colleagues and children out of potential harm's way if avoidable, irrespective of whether it's 'permitted' or not.

Someone sent their child in for settling in sessions at a small local nursery when they're not even working and their other child has covid. Mind boggles. How do people not consider that others may need that childcare for work? Or that others may not appreciate sickness and isolation? The child going in is not even 2 and you're telling me you're effectively able to LFT them? And isolate them from their also very young sibling?

I wouldn’t, my DD3 picked up covid in nursery due to a close contact still attending and she’s taken covid really bad, she’s on day 6 and still very unwell. Just because it’s mild to some doesn’t mean it’s mild to all. Full house is now positive including my 6 month old.

Yes. 1 DC tested positive. The rest of us did daily tests and kept living normally. No one else caught it. So I’m glad we didn’t impose unnecessary extra restrictions on ourselves.

@DeadSouth

I wouldn’t, my DD3 picked up covid in nursery due to a close contact still attending and she’s taken covid really bad, she’s on day 6 and still very unwell. Just because it’s mild to some doesn’t mean it’s mild to all. Full house is now positive including my 6 month old.

So sorry to hear this. Hope she feels better soon.

I would never send my child in if we had covid at home, especially being nursery and not compulsory education! I'd rather inconvenience myself than potentially many other families.

But there are so many people with covid (especially children) who are asymptomatic or pre symptomatic but infectious. So loads of people everywhere who have covid but don’t know it. Given this, me keeping child 2 home because child 1 has it, is unlikely to make much of a difference. Yes child 2 might be incubating covid, but the way things are at the moment, so might anyone else.

If you and your DH test positive, you will need to find someone else to take your negative child to school as you and your husband wont be allowed to leave the house. That puts another person at risk of exposure, also.

I've no idea why some people insist on following the rules to the letter like this, with the net result that someone else is expected to bear a completely unnecessary risk - zero common sense.

I'm not sure what people think they're really achieving by not sending siblings to school.

Every class in every school in the country will have Covid pass through it. Not sending siblings in will not stop that... It's madness to think it will. So if it won't, what's the point other than to delay the inevitable - you're not stopping anything.

Lots of latter day King Canutes... Futile gestures to stop you feeling guilty.

No sí uso distancing ruled were relaxed in July no requirement in any sector (and masks also removed for much of the last year). Honestly covid rules barely exsist in other settting obviously in schools they are very important but there isn’t an obvious justification for treating children as the cause of this pandemic and many people catch the virus from infectious adults!

“No sí uso distancing ruled were relaxed in July no requirement in any sector (and masks also removed for much of the last year). Honestly covid rules barely exsist in other settting obviously in schools they are very important but there isn’t an obvious justification for treating children as the cause of this pandemic and many people catch the virus from infectious adults!”

Sorry can’t make sense of what your on about , hospitals, gps , post office could go on but all have measures in place still .It’s advised out and about from a positive house to safely distance from other people .

As a adult you can choose your level of risk , my child can’t, so him sitting next to another child who has come from a positive household makes me uncomfortable. Yes chances are others are going to have it too .
It’s a shit show and it’s starting to creep up through his school now but I can’t be told how many cases or staff are off , after the school having it bad in December, 3 of his teachers off today . 2 whi have deff got it .
I’m sending him in for his education, how much education he’s gaining if his regular teachers are off with covid 10 days I don’t know .

People moan on here how they don’t want schools shutting and they better not shut but a lot take no measures to prevent that .
I don’t want my son poorly with again , he had it bad in October .
Many have said today it’s far from over yet…. despite what Boris says . As a adult you can choose to go into a building with 450 other humans when cases are high and can choose what measures you take when in that building , my child can’t he has a mask that’s it.

@Toanewstart22

Without hesitation

I sense pride in your post.

A parent who did the same at my school caused my child to bring it home and be exhausted and ill for two months. I still have long covid. Post vaccines.

I doubt you care

@Sallydimebar

“No sí uso distancing ruled were relaxed in July no requirement in any sector (and masks also removed for much of the last year). Honestly covid rules barely exsist in other settting obviously in schools they are very important but there isn’t an obvious justification for treating children as the cause of this pandemic and many people catch the virus from infectious adults!”

Sorry can’t make sense of what your on about , hospitals, gps , post office could go on but all have measures in place still .It’s advised out and about from a positive house to safely distance from other people .

As a adult you can choose your level of risk , my child can’t, so him sitting next to another child who has come from a positive household makes me uncomfortable. Yes chances are others are going to have it too .
It’s a shit show and it’s starting to creep up through his school now but I can’t be told how many cases or staff are off , after the school having it bad in December, 3 of his teachers off today . 2 whi have deff got it .
I’m sending him in for his education, how much education he’s gaining if his regular teachers are off with covid 10 days I don’t know .

People moan on here how they don’t want schools shutting and they better not shut but a lot take no measures to prevent that .
I don’t want my son poorly with again , he had it bad in October .
Many have said today it’s far from over yet…. despite what Boris says . As a adult you can choose to go into a building with 450 other humans when cases are high and can choose what measures you take when in that building , my child can’t he has a mask that’s it.

Yes and it’s the ones taking measures away that cause the schools to shut (as well as make the rest of us ill).t

DeadSouth
I wouldn’t, my DD3 picked up covid in nursery due to a close contact still attending and she’s taken covid really bad, she’s on day 6 and still very unwell. Just because it’s mild to some doesn’t mean it’s mild to all. Full house is now positive including my 6 month old.

So sorry to hear this I hope she feels better soon.

Just to point out this is the medical definition of mild. Anything not requiring a hospital stat is mild.

I was so ill for two months. Couldn’t breathe. Steroids. Antibiotics. Inhalers 20 times a day. Long Covid four months later. It was classed as mild.

I know we're supposed to... and my school certainly expect you to. However, a mum at school's daughter has just tested positive. She was asking for help getting her other (negative) child to school as she didn't want to ask her mum "just in case". So her mum stays safe for now, but possibly someone else's mum might not. Doesn't sit right with me.

Sensibly, our primary is telling parents to keep them all off.

No, middle ds is positive two siblings are negative but I'm keeping them all off after seeing how it's ripped through ds8 class (about 3/4 positive all in the last week). I spoke to the school receptionist who said advice is that they can come in but the school are supporting parents in keeping siblings off. Might have a different view if mine were older but they are all primary.

No sorry factory workers, shops workers all “cannot choose their risk” and social distancing has been removed as a legal requirement in many setting (all of hospitality for a start!)

I get people love restrictions on children I do but ultimately there are loads of places where you can be working side by side with an adult who has been a close contact, heck it’s even true in schools for the staff!! It’s just the kids who are staying at home

…honestly I know do many families where adults have gone to work, in restaurants serving tables (no masks, no distancing), working with pre school children (no masks no distancing), running museum sessions for kids (no masks no distancing)…all who had households contacts with a positive family member yet the sibling stayed home from school because our local council says you can work in a nursery with positive household contact but not go to school.

It’s this obsession with keeping kids out if school as much as possible!! Because “only kids spread the virus” which is complete bollocks!

I sent both mine in as normal when DH had covid. All activities normal.

They didn't catch it, as far as I know. I only tested the oldest once though, and not the youngest. The sky didn't fall in. I did test myself and I remained negative throughout, somehow.