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?

No.

Dh and I positive week before last and we kept our 8 year old at home, she was negative throughout and no symptoms.

I just couldn’t justify sending her in when we were both ill. She could have infected so many others, how many times do you hear of LFT changing to positive within a day? It wasn’t worth the risk to others for me.

Plus, we don’t know anyone to take her in. It would have been grandparents who always said they wouldn’t in that situation just incase, which is fair enough.

However, it was an easy decision as dd wasn’t impacted at all educationally or emotionally by the lockdowns, she didn’t bat an eye lis at a week at home with online school work. It must be so difficult for those who have dc who were impacted negatively.

We kept the whole hose at home the min the first Dc was positive.... didn't feel right to send the rest in to potentially spread it around.

4 days later I tested positive, then the other dc, then dh a day later

Me and DH both tested positive, informed the school who advised DD2 would still need to come in after negative LFT and PCR. Sent her into school, came back that evening with symptoms. LFD'd her and positive after testing negative that morning. I have felt so guilty on her classmates and teachers. 7 days later and 7 of her class mates are now testing positive. I feel terrible but followed the advice the school gave.

DD 11 tested positive on Monday now testing negative.
DS13 is in school, LFT every morning but no out of school activities.
Me and DH also daily testing, I'm going into work as can't do job from home. But not seeing anyone outside of work and mask on at work

I didn’t but dc ended up having it a few weeks apart so the isolation would have been unnecessary

I mean I didn’t keep them home

Yes absolutely. I have 4 dc's and the older ones are in the middle of mock exams.

People need to get over this now - if they're not ill you send them in.

In a few weeks we won't be needing to isolate or test at all.

@ItsAlwaysThere

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

It's not sensible at all... All it will do is prolong the disruption.

It's far better, and less disruptive to education, for it to go through a class
in one go than in dribs and drabs.

Who are people trying to kid when they think that all this isolation is ultimately going to stop children from getting infected? It just means the process of Omicron impacting on education is prolonged.

Look at South Africa... Sharp rise, and now a sharp fall, they're out the other side with very low case numbers... the more we interfere, the longer it will take for this to happen here.

Moreover, I can't see how this approach ultimately benefits those who are CEV or have CEV people at home. It just stretches the same risk over a longer period... Pointless. At least if it was allowed to pass through the school unimpeded, they could make the calculated decision to withdraw their child for a couple of weeks during that period. As there's this prolonged period of a "sword of Damacles" hanging over them, as people try to do what's right, but actually aren't doing anything constructive by their actions.

@treeflowercat

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.

100% this, its absolutely futile to keep siblings off.

@jobsagudden

Me and DH both tested positive, informed the school who advised DD2 would still need to come in after negative LFT and PCR. Sent her into school, came back that evening with symptoms. LFD'd her and positive after testing negative that morning. I have felt so guilty on her classmates and teachers. 7 days later and 7 of her class mates are now testing positive. I feel terrible but followed the advice the school gave.

Those people would have very, very likely been infected with Omicron anyway at some point... All you did was accelerate the inevitable.

Here, schools are very much wanting negative children in. If they are negative and covid free absence will be unauthorised but it's always your choice as a parent whether to send them in or not...

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.

This. I've felt like this for ages. Once it became apparent it wasn't going to die out and vaccines were well underway it was obvious we would have to carry on as normal.

Why can some people still not use their brain?

No, but in my case there’s a big age difference and my teenagers are able to keep away from me and my reception aged child. If I had another similar aged or younger child I don’t think I’d be sending them in.

As it stands we haven’t seen the older children since I tested positive on Monday and they have no symptoms/daily neg LFTs. I’m not sure about the activities/parties - I guess it’s your choice, I’d be very stringent about testing and ensuring no symptoms first at least.

This. I've felt like this for ages. Once it became apparent it wasn't going to die out and vaccines were well underway it was obvious we would have to carry on as normal. Why can some people still not use their brain?

Some people still, even after all this time, think that all these restrictions and isolations will somehow "stop the spread" rather than just "delay the spread".

Also, some people don't want to feel personally responsible for spread. It's more about pacifying their misplaced feelings of guilt than doing something that will actually make a difference.

It’s completely usual for only one or some family members to get it at a time. Me and DH had it a few months apart but DC somehow avoided it.

That would have been 20 days pointless isolating for them.

If they then get go on to have it that’s even more isolating and missed school time.

My daughter is still at school. Sibling tested positive a week ago. So she would have missed whole week if I kept her off and she's been negative every day so far.

I continued to send my DD in while myself and my DS had covid as she’d had it in December, so I hoped she would dodge it this time. She tested positive after a couple of days in school, I’m now feeling guilty for sending her, although there were already some cases in her class.

My dc was in the middle of mock exams when there was a positive case in our household. They were very keen not to miss school, so yes!

Both times we had Covid in house it didn’t get passed on to anyone else. I sent kids to school after a PCR, as per advice. They have been exposed several times since Xmas and we have just daily LFT. I’m not sure what I would do about extra curriculars this time. We cancelled everything last time and then they stayed negative. Plus I’m sure most kids have a contact somewhere now?

@Dontrainonmyparade

No, but in my case there’s a big age difference and my teenagers are able to keep away from me and my reception aged child. If I had another similar aged or younger child I don’t think I’d be sending them in.

As it stands we haven’t seen the older children since I tested positive on Monday and they have no symptoms/daily neg LFTs. I’m not sure about the activities/parties - I guess it’s your choice, I’d be very stringent about testing and ensuring no symptoms first at least.

You haven’t seen your teens since Monday and yet live in same house?

How does hag work in practice

We kept our 13 and 15 year old off school when their sister tested positive. It was the week before school broke up for Christmas, so while they would have enjoyed that week, we really didn't want to pass it on to their peers/teachers just before the holidays. It felt very much like the right thing to do. None of the rest of us got it though.
Not sure what I'd do now - it's all become much more nuanced and complicated I think.

We did but he didn’t go anywhere else while his brother was ill.
He didn’t catch it despite sharing a room. Quite common among people I know for siblings not to catch.
Pleased i sent him as invariably he will be off when he eventually gets it himself.