Boy infecting entire class

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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.

The school should be more proactive about this, as they are fully entitled to insist that infectious pupils stay away. Other pupils may well be vulnerable or live with vulnerable people. If the parent won't let the child come back home it's a matter for social services.

I was thinking that. Something doesn't add up...

This thread beautifully illustrates a lot of what is wrong with people these days- the boy's mother and all the posters desperately trying to deny what's been put in front of them.

My mum was a teacher and therefore couldn’t have any time off for sick children. Pre mobile phones so she would ring at lunch and leave lunch, snacks and a sick bowl by the bed. Perfectly reasonable solution for secondary school age children.

Aww poor kid.

Theres a cough going around at the minute that isn’t covid but lasts a while, so I understand them not having all that time off.
But I can’t stand when you parents don’t let them stay home a couple of days.

I remember one of ours had severe D&V which was awful for him but his mum refused to pick him up because “why the fuck should she and he’s our fucking problem during school hours”.

We also had another one with covid and this was at the height of it too and the parent refused to pick him up and told us “if we don’t fucking want him there then we need to bring him home ourselves because she doesn’t have the fucking time to get him”.
We did take him home as one of the TAs did it on their break but he was back in the next day.
We kept him isolated as best as we could because we had a student with cancer and a staff member with a DH with cancer too.

The most annoying thing is that neither of their parents worked and had absolutely no excuse to not pick them up or keep them at home.

This is a really good point - the boy is 12 at least so can be left home alone.

I repeat - the parents are pricks.

You cannot expect people (who are most likely workers contributing to the economy) to disrupt their 12 year old’s education with absence from school every time they have cold symptoms to suit you. The child would’ve most likely been at his most contagious before he showed symptoms, maybe he and all the other children just shouldn’t attend at all to be on the safe side?

My boss would tell parents of ill children that if they didn't collect them social services would.

So cruel to send ill children to school.

Can the school not call social services? Refusing to care for a sick child (by sending him to school every day despite his symptoms) is surely child neglect?

@MiddleParking ”to suit me” are you mental. They have to stay off school 3 days. Once they have had a patent infection they will unlikely develop another the rest of the year.

There are vulnerable people, it could make these people seriously unwell or kill them.

And it is not a bloody cold it is a vascular disease with heightened risk of blood clots for 6 months after it!!

Dear God.

Thankfully the school have a strict policy and most people aren’t dicks so I don’t need to worry.

There no rules on Covid anymore.
And as I said the country are more than happy with people who work with the most vulnerable in society to be cared for by people with Covid. It is what it is by this point.

People don't have to like it but if they want it to change then they need to do something about it.

Presumably school would rather he was in with their % attendance rewards? 🤷‍♀️

I guess the government can't advise people to test or they would have to make testing free again 🤔

I don't know why you wouldn't test (unless in extreme financial hardship). Surely it's the responsible thing to do, to keep away from others when you have a disease that can kill or make people extremely ill?

Plus how do you know when to have your booster if you don't test, so don't know whether you had Covid or not in September (or whenever)? We are advised to wait 3 or 6 months after an infection (need to check which!).

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As I said.

The school has a strict policy on sickness, of varying types, and guidance is given out to parents.

Where they don’t comply they are called to come and collect their children.

Pretty sure that recent guidance was that children needed to be in school and should attend with coughs and colds.

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England advice

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Scotland advice

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Wales advice

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Northern Ireland advice

As you can see there is some variation in advice across the U.K. probably related to healthcare capacity.

With the outbreak in my son's year after the trip I posted in the Facebook group that he was positive so that others who had shared his dorm etc were aware. Another parent replied that they had tested and her son was also positive. He continued to go to school the whole time.

It makes no sense to test if you are going to carry on regardless. I guess people just don't always make sense.

They can have many reasons to test
They may have a relative who they will avoid until negative or they may want to know. Unless employers are going to foncially support people to have time off for Covid then many are absolutly going to return to work/school and their daily activities.

To be honest , in a way it’s a plus point for it to go round the class in early autumn… i think the nhs would rather it go round the younger people now then in the middle of winter.

My children’s school says as long as they’re not unwell with Covid then they are expected in school.

my DD tested positive a few months ago and she was asymptomatic (did test as about to visit a friends newborn baby straight from school) and school told me to send her in
There are so many infections diseases these days that they can go in school with; hand foot and mouth, impetigo, strep A as long as first antibiotic dose given, chicken pox so long as either 5 days since first spots or scabbed over whichever is first.

I don’t necessarily agree but my children’s school would expect them in school with all of the above including Covid

...and yet both sick days and too sick to work figures continue to increase...wonder why?