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Schools update

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enterparentone · 30/03/2022 17:32

https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2022/03/30/living-with-covid-the-end-of-routine-testing-in-schools-colleges-and-childcare-settings/

Don't test for Covid, and do go to school, but if you do test for Covid and you do indeed have Covid, don't go to school. Except if you feel well then you can go to school, but don't go to school if you have a high temperature. If you tested your temperature. Classic!

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mrshoho · 02/04/2022 10:11

So school closures and disruption elsewhere is just because they didn't follow your line of common sense?

Have to admire the way people wear their stupidity like a badge of pride.

kittensinthekitchen · 02/04/2022 10:15

@ILookAtTheFloor

I've never tested my children ever. If they've been well enough to go to school I've sent them in. Even when we had covid in the house.

No school closures here as a result of my actions! I'm glad common sense has prevailed.

That's idiocy, not common sense.

gogohm · 02/04/2022 10:21

If your kids are I'll, keep them home, if they are well send to school - just like before we heard the word covid

Lilaclavenders · 02/04/2022 10:28

You can call people 'stupid' all you like but many people will view sending well children into school as the right thing to do. Me included.

Plumbear2 · 02/04/2022 10:30

@ILookAtTheFloor

I've never tested my children ever. If they've been well enough to go to school I've sent them in. Even when we had covid in the house.

No school closures here as a result of my actions! I'm glad common sense has prevailed.

Well people with this attitude have caused many classes to close in my kids school. Your attitude also causes more vulnerable people to suffer more. Its not just about you.

Lilaclavenders · 02/04/2022 10:35

*So school closures and disruption elsewhere is just because they didn't follow your line of common sense?

Have to admire the way people wear their stupidity like a badge of pride.*

No one has claimed that sending well children into school may not potentially lead to class or school closures.

Many people do however see it as common sense to keep ill children at home and send well children into school, yes.

Luckily our schools have not seen any disruption but if they did, then I'd obviously understand and deal with having them at home for a few days. Hopefully that won't happen though.

mrshoho · 02/04/2022 10:39

Read the pp and tell me that is not what was being implied.

vbnm89 · 02/04/2022 10:43

I am a TA and had covid 2 weeks ago but in all honesty I wouldn't have known if I hadn't tested - I had a stuffy nose for 1 day but my whole team bar me and one teacher had covid so our head asked me and the other teacher to test daily luckily we both had enough tests to do this. I tested positive on the Sunday BUT if no one else at work had it I would have had no idea I had it and if I hadn't tested and worked in say an office or a shop I would have carried on working as normal.

In a school we are encouraged to test twice weekly but now there are no tests available we can't do this. We now have 1 member of staff who hasn't had covid about 15 members off staff who have had it twice and we actually 2 people off with their third bout. It will be never ending but you won't know because people can't test. I do think the staffing will get a bit better because half the time you will not even know you have it so the teachers who have it asymptomatically will be in school but they can then spread it to other people who may get hit badly so yes you are going to have lots of teachers off but you aren't going to have to have the asymptomatic people at home any more. We had 10 teachers self isolating at one point who like myself were perfectly well.

I think with kids it will just go round and round like with sickness bugs, chicken pox etc.

itsgettingweird · 02/04/2022 10:52

@Piggy42

But prior to Covid, the main focus from schools seemed to be attendance. If they could possibly be in school they should be, metrics showing missing school and lower attainment at gcse. So I’m sure parents will send their kids to school With Covid if they’re not feeling too dreadful.

I've of working in the education and childcare sector for over 2 decades in some way shape or form is parents will actually send their children in ill or not.

It's quite common for children to go downhill at lunchtime and when asked what's wrong say they woke up unwell and they were given calpol!

Even through the pandemic we've had kids with high temps sent in and parents just declare "well it's not covid". A) without doing pcr and just a LFT which take a few days to come up ime and b) as if it matters what they're ill with when they have a temp making them too unwell to learn.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 02/04/2022 11:05

@kittensinthekitchen

Paying taxes doesn't put me at risk of losing my job/losing wages, the way Covid does if I'm off every other month with it or I'm home looking after DS with it.

@Waxonwaxoff0

Funnily enough, if people weren't willingly sending their kids into school knowing they have a contagious illness, you and your DS would likely not be catching it every other month 🙄

Well, people are catching it now, aren't they? Testing isn't making much difference.

Silverbirch2 · 03/04/2022 23:44

@itsgettingweird completely agree. We had 2 children send hone this week with temps and clearly unwell-both at lunchtime coincidentally 🙄 or calpol wear off time! 1 back mum saying hes fine to be in. Sent home again with temp and since a positive covid test. I've now got covid again and my TA and 3 other dc so far.......

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