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Everyone in household has covid except one child. Keep them home from school tomorrow?

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BewareTheBeardedDragon · 06/02/2022 19:21

3 of 4 dc in household + I have covid at the moment. 2 dc tested positive early last week and now getting steadily feinter lines on LFTs.
1dc and I got positive results this weekend.
1dc got PCR negative this weekend and no symptoms (got her and me PCR tested as was going to test symptomatic dc at same time, and I come back positive despite no symptoms and negative LFT same day).

I am assuming that the last dc is likely to get it this week at some point, though perhaps not necessarily, who knows.

In theory I could drop her outside school gates without getting out of the car myself, if she has a negative LFT tomorrow. But I don't know if I should keep her off in expectation of her getting it?
Or even if I should just not go out in the car myself, even if I'm not getting out?

The 2 who got it last week are likely to be fit to return mid this week I reckon, but again, the only way they can get there is if I drive them.
They really want to go back because there's a special activity they both don't want to miss.

There is no other adult in the house. Argh.

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DownWhichOfLate · 06/02/2022 19:36

How old is the “well” child?

Soontobe60 · 06/02/2022 19:39

What if you kept her off whilst someone was testing positive, and then she tested positive and had to be off school for a possible 10 more days? I’d send her in.

DownWhichOfLate · 06/02/2022 19:43

Though you can’t actually take them as you have covid. The advice on other threads has been to phone the school and ask. I think some schools have helped with getting a child to school.

JellyinaWelly · 06/02/2022 19:44

Please think of others and keep child at home.

Isntisironic1 · 06/02/2022 19:45

As someone who works with covid positive cases keep your child at home. They are VERY likely going to test positive, also if you’re relying on LFT please don’t…my son didn’t test positive on LFT until 6 days after his PCR

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BewareTheBeardedDragon · 06/02/2022 19:57

I'm not relying on LFT, I don't trust them at all. I literally had a negative LFT 2 hrs before doing the PCR which came back positive. Well child is young - 7. She also did a PCR with me but hers has come back negative. I don't feel comfortable about sending her in, but the government advice is confusing.

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Fridgeorflight · 06/02/2022 19:58

If we had done that, DD2 would have missed 3 weeks of school. She has tested positive right at the end of DD1's 10 days. Admittedly a few of those days are half term, so actually more like 2.5 weeks of school.

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BewareTheBeardedDragon · 06/02/2022 20:04

I didn't keep her off last week, but last week it was just 2 out of 5 who had it, and I could take her in as normal. Maybe I just need to call the office in the morning. I know i strictly shouldn't be driving her there even, but I don't have any other option if she is to go.

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ImprobablePuffin · 06/02/2022 21:19

If the child is testing negative and no symptoms, send them in. That's the guidance. It's not about being kind and thinking of others as PP suggested. You're not being irresponsible if you send your child to school

kitcat15 · 06/02/2022 21:22

I would send them in....my DD had covid early Jan and my eldest GD .....her younger sister still went to nursery.....she never did have any symptoms

Nillynally · 06/02/2022 21:28

As a heavily pregnant teacher who's already had it twice, please keep them home 😫

iwanttobeonleave · 06/02/2022 21:38

I would keep them home for the sake of everyone else.

Meowwwwwww · 06/02/2022 21:40

You cannot assume she will get it. It is not uncommon at all for all but one or two family members to get it, maybe because they had it asymptomatically at some point or they are just immune for whatever reason. Half of us got it and half didn’t, and we were on holiday so we had very close exposure.

Im2022 · 06/02/2022 21:43

I kept dd at home as she had mild symptoms, then she tested positive a few days later. It was a chain reaction in our house every 2 days someone tested positive.

I’d just keep the child at home unless the school tell you to bring them in.

Glowinglights · 06/02/2022 21:44

I understand both sides, but personally i would send her in after a negative PCR. In our household, 3 got covid and the smallest dc never got it. We weren’t isolating from each other, but she just always tested negative throughout. The chances are that your youngest won’t get it, and so wouldn’t have to miss school at all.

Tulipvase · 06/02/2022 21:48

Only my youngest (not vaccinated) and I ( fully vaccinated ) got COVID. My husband (fully vaccinated) and 2 older children (1st vaccine) didn’t get it so I’m not sure it’s guaranteed to pass on. If you can get your child to school, I would. I’m a TA and we have had so many children in who have siblings with it.

Tulips21 · 06/02/2022 21:48

Dd1 tested positive on a Monday...then the rest of us every 2days.
We have 4DC...by the time Dc4 got it and went back day 6 (2xnegs)after positive , Dc had been off for 13days.

rollerblind · 06/02/2022 21:49

The guidance is to send them in. Like PPs have said, he/she may not get it at all so why keep a healthy child off school? Equally he/she may test positive on your day 10 and end up missing a lot of school

Dammitthisisshit · 06/02/2022 21:49

Don’t send her in. Call school/ ask them to authorise absence.
Our school can’t officially tell parents to keep household contacts at school due to government guidance allowing them in but the school are very happy to authorise absence in cases like yours

HairyScaryMonster · 06/02/2022 22:07

Me and my 7yo got covid within a few days of each other. DD age 4 and DH never got it. It's not inevitable.

UmbilicusProfundus · 06/02/2022 23:28

These days it seems it’s not enough to just stick to the rules, you have to go even further and keep well children off school. There is so much covid around the schools anyway, it will make fuck all difference, except to your child obviously who misses out unnecessarily

Thewindwhispers · 06/02/2022 23:30

The government is an incompetent mess so don’t rely on their guidance.

If everyone else has covid, she’s very likely carrying it. Please keep her home.

forceofagreattyphoon · 07/02/2022 00:49

I’d send her in, as others have said what if she develops symptoms and tests positive towards the end of the isolation period and ends up missing 3 weeks worth of school in one go.

We’ve all had covid at completely different times in my house, DC would have missed weeks and weeks unnecessarily of school if I’d insisted keeping them home for another family members positive case.

Adarajames · 07/02/2022 01:00

If there is no way for the child to get to school without you taking them, then they can’t go as you are legally obliged to self isolate. That trumps rules on school attendance.

Tillyloveslettuce · 07/02/2022 01:01

I’m a teacher and tired of seeing kids of positive family members coming in and infecting others. It’s just perpetuating the spread. For what it’s worth, me and my son are both currently positive and I’ve kept my daughter at home. I just told her school I couldn’t get her there with me being positive. To be fair, COVID is so rampant in schools currently, that kids aren’t exactly getting a normal in school education anyway. So many staff are off poorly and those left are having to cover. I’ve helped cover nearly every other year group this term as well as my own class.

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