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Boy infecting entire class

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Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 16/09/2023 18:21

My daughter is in Y8. This week a boy has been in all week with Covid. He is symptomatic and coughing constantly. The school have tried to send him home but unfortunately there was no one available to collect him and he keeps coming in daily.

I totally understand that parents have to work and schools expect high attendance which doesn't help but I wouldn't send my child in with flu or norovirus or Covid.

I don't know what the solution is but now several kids in the class have also started showing symptoms.

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AlwaysFreezing · 16/09/2023 18:23

Half of a class have always caught colds, coughs and bugs at the beginning of term, it's normal.

Embarrassednamechangeadoddle · 16/09/2023 18:37

How do you know this about the kid?

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Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 16/09/2023 18:44

The boy complained to my daughter and two of her friends that he didn't feel well but his mum was making him come in.

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Mrsm010918 · 16/09/2023 18:47

Sooooo.... you don't actually know it was Covid then..?

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Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 16/09/2023 18:47

I completely understand kids coming in with colds and sore throats but Covid can make you feel really rotten. I have had it 5 times now.

He has said they have tested and it is Covid

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MiddleParking · 16/09/2023 18:48

Dear god.

Wibblywobblylikejelly · 16/09/2023 18:48

It sucks. I work in a special needs school. There are children with complex life limiting disabilities.
They are the people who apparently isolated to save.

Now we come into work with covid and still have to do personal care on these children.

Wolfiefan · 16/09/2023 18:48

But you don’t know this is COVID.

NowWhattt · 16/09/2023 18:49

Do you know for a fact he was covid positive?

How?

Bit of a piss take if he was in but so much ignorance in society in that it is viewed that Covid for everyone means just a cold and cough ( if you’re lucky ) so not a lot you can do about it.

Don’t know what else to say about it really.

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Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 16/09/2023 18:50

The boy has said they did a positive LFT at home. He is Y8 so not a small child.

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archimedesconstant · 16/09/2023 18:51

You don’t know whether he has or had covid, or whether he is the one who has infected the other kids.
It’s getting to the season where colds, coughs, covid and flu will be rife and most of us will be in contact with it, with no sure way to know where it came from should we become infected.

We really are beyond the whole pointing fingers and calling others selfish at this point 🙄

Greensleeves · 16/09/2023 18:51

Of course it's insane for him to be in school, symptomatic, infecting others and feeling rotten. Unfortunately half the country is so traumatised by lockdowns/masking/social distancing that they have their fingers in their ears and their eyes screwed shut against the idea of any level of sensible infection control. I don't know what the answer is. Culturally and emotionally the pandemic was like a bomb going off, we will be dealing with the shockwaves in the form of mental health problems and trauma for decades. The sort of aggressive denial that leads someone to send an infected and ill child into school is a part of that, I think; hopefully it will pass and people will regain some common sense at some point. In the meantime you can only do what you can to protect your own family. If you are worried about your child catching it, or you have a vulnerable person in the family, you could keep her off and tell the school why.

NowWhattt · 16/09/2023 18:52

Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 16/09/2023 18:50

The boy has said they did a positive LFT at home. He is Y8 so not a small child.

Likely then that no fucks was given .

Like I said .. it is viewed by the ignorant as “ just a cold”.

Not a lot you can do.

RedAndWhiteCarnations · 16/09/2023 19:00

NowWhattt · 16/09/2023 18:52

Likely then that no fucks was given .

Like I said .. it is viewed by the ignorant as “ just a cold”.

Not a lot you can do.

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That,

But unfortunately very hard to fight when the message from the government is ‘is just like the flu’….

fwiw at that age, he could have stayed at home in his own.
But schools have put a lot if pressure on parents re attendance. It’s not helping.

MiddleParking · 16/09/2023 19:01

The sort of aggressive denial that leads someone to send an infected and ill child into school

Or as some of us refer to it, gainful employment.

Embarrassednamechangeadoddle · 16/09/2023 19:04

What did the school say? Do they have a policy regarding illness. Does seem silly to have a child in school if they are unwel. However I’ve no idea what current guidance is about being covid positive…im
surprised the parents tested him if they didn’t intend to keep him home. What’s the point? Could he be making that part up to try and get time off?

VanillaImpulse · 16/09/2023 19:07

Current guidance is 3 days after positive test you can mix for children, 5 days for adults

Covidwoes · 16/09/2023 19:07

Gosh poor boy, that's horrible, regardless of whether it's Covid or not! To the posters mentioning colds going round, would you send a kid in with norovirus or flu? This boy is actively complaining about feeling unwell. I have Covid for the 4th time (teacher) and feeling like shit. I haven't had norovirus or flu four times in less than 3 years, or even a cold!

Floralnomad · 16/09/2023 19:08

I doubt they tested , why would you bother if you are just going to carry on as normal , I reckon he’s telling fibs .

Greensleeves · 16/09/2023 19:08

MiddleParking · 16/09/2023 19:01

The sort of aggressive denial that leads someone to send an infected and ill child into school

Or as some of us refer to it, gainful employment.

The kid is in Y8, he'd be better off at home alone with regular phone checks than being sent into school with symptomatic covid. Most of us are working parents; you don't send your child to school when they're a) too ill to learn and b) have tested positive for an illness that kills vulnerable people and leaves many others debilitated for months. Basic social contract stuff.

NowWhattt · 16/09/2023 19:09

Covidwoes · 16/09/2023 19:07

Gosh poor boy, that's horrible, regardless of whether it's Covid or not! To the posters mentioning colds going round, would you send a kid in with norovirus or flu? This boy is actively complaining about feeling unwell. I have Covid for the 4th time (teacher) and feeling like shit. I haven't had norovirus or flu four times in less than 3 years, or even a cold!

Speaking from experience.. I know of parents who sent their kid in to school with Norovirus..

Again, not a lot you can do…

Fizbosshoes · 16/09/2023 19:10

Unless there are additional needs I would expect most year 8s to be able to stay home without parents if they were ill/infectious for school

Beadyeyes91 · 16/09/2023 19:12

My husbands ex wife has thought nothing of sending their son into school this week with impetigo. People are very frustrating.

TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon · 16/09/2023 19:12

Our school policy is the same for children as it is for adults, and the same as it would be for any cold like virus.
If you're feeling ok, you can go in. If you're not, you stay home.
Quite a few kids have been in with cold like symptoms, same as they always would have.

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Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 16/09/2023 19:18

He is of an age where you can leave them with a sandwich, TV and a phone

The school do have a very frustrating attendance rewards scheme. They took all
the 100% pupils on a lovely trip away.
My dd missed one day as she had d and v that began on a weekend and she didn't qualify. It's things like this that don't help.

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