If your DC has covid but well, is school expecting them in?

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Haven’t really kept up with the guidance for schools. What’s the recent advice? If DC have tested positive, but not unwell ( slight runny noses only) do I keep them home or send to school? It seems so wrong to send them in for the first 5 days at least.
Out of interest, what’s the guidance for teachers at the moment? If they have covid are they expected to go into school and work?

If my child had Covid symptoms I'd ask them to test and if positive I'd keep them off school until negative/better.

It's taken 2 years for him to get back to 30-40% health following Covid and the last thing I'd want to do is set this back at all. Luckily we have a really supportive school so he'd be able to join lessons from home if he was feeling up to it.

Yes. Child is to attend school if they're well enough to attend, and to stay off if they're too ill to attend.

No need to test at all.

I’ve got it at the moment. Teach in FE. Colleague felt rough, testing neg then tested positive. A couple of days later I was feeling rough also negative. Stayed off work one day then tested positive too. I’m glad my work are pretty sensible with this one and say isolate for 5 days. (Don’t know if they’ll pay me yet - it’s my first time and I’m new). We have so much of it in college so I’m glad they’re doing what they can to protect us.

@HalfasleepChrisintheMorning i tested DS because of attendance worries. He felt shockingly ill and I didn’t want school to think it was ‘just’ another cold!

Until I sent the email to them I wasn’t aware of the 5 day protocol but in our case, I’m glad I did.

I didn’t have the worry of messaging school EVERY morning to let them know that our DS was still feeling awful and still in bed with a ‘cold’ when they told me that because he’d tested positive he wasn’t allowed back in school for at least 5 days.

Our DS has suffered greatly with MH issues and has had time off because of this. When he felt dreadful we decided to test just incase and he tested positive, the first time ‘we think’ for him. So for us, we needed that positive test to back up everything and stop the ever ending worry of the EWO visit.

Our school has 3 days for the kids and 5 days for staff if they test positive. However, if the kids are still ill after 3 days, we are told to keep them home

My friends husband died from Covid just before Christmas. It’s not gone away. I’d keep them home, because I wouldn’t know who was in school, or who they could carry it home to.

I tested my DD daily before school when I had covid before Christmas. She tested positive with no symptoms so I kept her off anyway. School didn’t say anything but it was the end of term. I don’t feel guilty about it- five weeks on and I can still barely get out of bed and it’s been the worst experience of my life.

I'm under pressure to send DD even when I've told them she's unwell - tiredness, muscle pain and headaches. So many have bought into the myth that kids dont get ill with it. Been off 4 days so far - hardly excessive.

My DS tested positive today. I thought he just had a cold (runny nose and sneezing) but he has a headache as well. His mate tested positive at the w/e.

I rang school and they said 3 days and if he feels well enough after that, he can go back to school.