If your child tests positive for covid are you going to send them to school still?

[Meltinthemiddle]

Just wondering really as friends kids have tested positive and she said they are gutted they don't have to stay off school. As a teacher I'm not looking forward to be surrounded by more germs 😭

@bobsholi

They aren’t. Surprised you say you work in a school and think that.

Read the DfE guidelines. Email your own school. Email Your kids school and ask

[quote OnceuponaRainbow18]@taylorsdoingapart

You should sent them this: from the DfE:

Children and young people with COVID-19 should not attend their education setting while they are infectious. They should take an LFD test from 5 days after their symptoms started (or the day their test was taken if they did not have symptoms) followed by another one the next day. If both these tests results are negative, they should return to their educational setting if they normally attend one, as long as they feel well enough to do so and do not have a temperature. They should follow the guidance for their educational setting.[/quote]
To be honest, the guidance is so confusing, and he went back the day that rules changed. I rang, asked and double checked. They asked me to send him in or they'd mark him as unauthorised. I'm not about to go trawling through pages of legislation and challenge the school. I did as they told me to.

We’ve been told that they will be sent home if symptomatic and expected to get a pcr. And then do the usual test from day 5 etc. Which is all fine all the time the tests were free, but I’m not going to be able to afford multiple tests every time he gets a cold and cough. And I completely understand it, we’ve followed every rule the whole way through, I’m currently isolating on day 6 as still testing positive even though legally I don’t have to. But I really can’t see how we are supposed to deal with covid like any other disease if kids are going to be sent home every time and miss so much of their education.

[quote OnceuponaRainbow18]@Svara

Bravo protect your loved ones and fuck all others.![/quote]
If he had an 87 year old teacher I might think twice, but also his great grandmother is not teaching him his GCSEs so that tips the risk/benefit further again.

Again the current guidance t school and country is only til end of March

There is not even advice to stay hone with covid gym 1 st April

It changes to use personal responsibility and as such schools will update

Pcr won’t be available to anyone even with symptoms so this sending home to test won’t exist

Schools can’t make their own rules up

Schools can make there own rules up!! Ours have throughout they only get rid of face masks in the classrooms for this coming Monday (and are still requiring them in corridors). They were also not allowing children in school if there was a household case for the previous half term.

So I can see them asking for testing even once it’s paid for even if that does disadvantage kids who cannot afford it! They might not but I cannot see anything that would stop them doing it, schools have there own rules on all sorts of this hair length, what they wear etc not coming to school with a new cough for five days unless you provide a negative lft provided at your own expense may well become a school rule we will just have to wait and see.

Yes it looks pretty clear that this advice is until end of March when free tests are no longer available. Gives people a month to get used to the idea that there will be children and adults in schools and other settings who won’t be being tested whether they have symptoms or not.

Unless schools are going to be paying for all these tests then they aren’t really in the position to be demanding them.

Definitely not.

@Dghgcotcitc

Schools can make there own rules up!! Ours have throughout they only get rid of face masks in the classrooms for this coming Monday (and are still requiring them in corridors). They were also not allowing children in school if there was a household case for the previous half term.

So I can see them asking for testing even once it’s paid for even if that does disadvantage kids who cannot afford it! They might not but I cannot see anything that would stop them doing it, schools have there own rules on all sorts of this hair length, what they wear etc not coming to school with a new cough for five days unless you provide a negative lft provided at your own expense may well become a school rule we will just have to wait and see.

They can but they’d be on pretty dodgy ground if they are directly excluding poorer children from education whilst wealthier children can access it. Which is what will happen if schools demand that symptomatic children aren’t allowed into school until they have a negative test once free tests end.

We have been told that kids stay off for x5 days with covid at our school

@Overthebow

I’m sure the school would give a student a test if they can’t afford one. There’s a PP fund, we even use it to get kids their glasses sometimes if they’ve lost the free pair they got that year.

🙈🙈Schools won’t be asking anyone to test from 1/4 as the government advice changes from stay at home to exercise personal responsibility

They can but they’d be on pretty dodgy ground if they are directly excluding poorer children from education whilst wealthier children can access it. Which is what will happen if schools demand that symptomatic children aren’t allowed into school until they have a negative test once free tests end.

Absolutely, and the government isn't going to allow that either.

@Watapalava

🙈🙈Schools won’t be asking anyone to test from 1/4 as the government advice changes from stay at home to exercise personal responsibility

Some might. Schools have a responsibility to create a healthy environment and maintain staffing levels. Having half the adults off ill, even if just for a few days, is not desirable especially as exam season approaches.

People wont be off

Most adults now don’t get that ill with covid to be off and they won’t be testing

Come April no one even with symptoms can get a pcr

Besides there’s no way half the staff haven’t had it yet

It will be interesting to see what happens. Most of my colleagues were ill with Covid and needed at least 5-10 days off so not sure how that will work. We will see. I'll be keeping my distance from coughing, snotty kids for a while.

Totally irresponsible to send them in. A vulnerable person might catch it off them.

@NotTerfNorCis

Totally irresponsible to send them in. A vulnerable person might catch it off them.

Vulnerable people can, unfortunately, catch it anywhere now.

Plus vulnerable people in the main are not that vulnerable anymore following 4 jabs

Their situations is vastly different to 2020

@Watapalava

Plus vulnerable people in the main are not that vulnerable anymore following 4 jabs

Their situations is vastly different to 2020

The people who’ve had 4 jabs are the most vulnerable. We remain quite vulnerable but we are a small group of people and life must begin to return to normality.

We test every Saturday as we visit my very elderly FIL. Today DS(7) has tested positive so we won’t be sending him into school - will check with the school on Monday as they have not issued updated guidance due to it being half-term here.

If I know I wouldn't, but I doubt I'll know to be honest.

Well I’d be happy to keep her off if I knew she had Covid, but I have no way of knowing because I can’t get the test anywhere near her (she’s 5). I’d even be happy to pay. But not happy to do what would in any other circumstances be classed as child abuse.

If she is too sick to go to school I will keep her home. Otherwise she will go in. I will continue to test myself, even when we have to pay.

And I’ll will cross my fingers that once you have to pay the school will no longer insist on tests. Although Boris says we can all go about our business now and forget about isolation, that threat still hangs over our children

@IrisPurple

If you’re happy to pay you can get saliva spit tests