Taking my kid out of school

Alexes1010 · 2022-01-17T22:15:20+00:00

Hello Mums, So my first kid stated Reception in September and I am thinking of taking her out for a month or two until maybe like the US, 5yr olds can get the vaccine, but don't know if it's something that will be allowed without a fine. She came home after the first week of school this yr with a fever and tested positive for covid. Omicron seems to be targeting kids and the schools are not doing anything much to prevent infections. No one knows the repercussions of repeated COVID19 infections in these age groups and I am just at wits end. Everyday there's a text that a child has tested positive in the school. Today two of her class teachers have tested positive. Any advice will be appreciated.

elelel · 17/01/2022 22:16

You want to take your child out of school in case she gets a virus she has already had?

Needcoffeecoffeecoffee · 17/01/2022 22:20

But what will you do with her instead? Keep her home and not see anyone else? Will you stay inside too so as not to pass it on?
I understand your worries but not sure its practical.
Is she clinically vulnerable?
Enjoy school and her friends?

CauldronBubble · 17/01/2022 22:20

But if she has Covid she’ll have some level of immunity for the next few months - not unlike being vaccinated - as will her classmates who also caught it. Her school is about to get much “safer”, why would you pull her out now?

Wolfiefan · 17/01/2022 22:25

This wouldn’t be authorised and you could lose your school place.
It’s not targeting kids. It’s a virus. It spreads. Not much the schools can do more than what they’re already doing.
Kids tend not to be really sick with COVID. Unless your child is especially vulnerable I don’t understand why you’re so worried.

Legoisthebest · 17/01/2022 22:30

When did she turn 5? If it was between Sept 1st and Xmas then she is now statutory school age. If she turned 5 in the last week or so you could technically take her out because she won't be statutory age until after the Easter holiday (rules are statutory age is the term after they turn 5). I am not sure if there is any official rules on them keeping her place until Easter or whether that varies from school to school.

Houseplantmad · 17/01/2022 22:34

Please don't say schools aren't doing much about it. They're doing all they can under incredibly difficult circumstances with little support from the Government. It's a virus which spreads relatively easily.
You will do more damage to your daughter taking her out of school than leaving her in there.

Meowwwwwww · 17/01/2022 22:39

The number of children who have been seriously ill from Omicron is vanishingly small. I get the anxiety but it would be madness to have your whole family to isolate (which you would of course have to do or it would be pointless) to avoid an otherwise healthy five-year-old being exposed to Covid. How long are you prepared to do this? Do you think your daughter would be fine stuck in the house with no playmates for the foreseeable future?

MarshmallowFondant · 17/01/2022 23:09

Absolutely ridiculous.

DoubleShotEspresso · 17/01/2022 23:18

@Meowwwwwww

The number of children who have been seriously ill from Omicron is vanishingly small. I get the anxiety but it would be madness to have your whole family to isolate (which you would of course have to do or it would be pointless) to avoid an otherwise healthy five-year-old being exposed to Covid. How long are you prepared to do this? Do you think your daughter would be fine stuck in the house with no playmates for the foreseeable future?

DoubleShotEspresso · 17/01/2022 23:19

@Meowwwwwww

The number of children who have been seriously ill from Omicron is vanishingly small. I get the anxiety but it would be madness to have your whole family to isolate (which you would of course have to do or it would be pointless) to avoid an otherwise healthy five-year-old being exposed to Covid. How long are you prepared to do this? Do you think your daughter would be fine stuck in the house with no playmates for the foreseeable future?

Sadly this is not the case and growing concerns are valid. I'm not necessarily endorsing removing children from school but to state this is not an issue is very misleading .

sepsisandAKI · 17/01/2022 23:19

Not sure I believe this….

DoubleShotEspresso · 17/01/2022 23:20

Trying to add a screenshot of a graph apologies it's not working

DoubleShotEspresso · 17/01/2022 23:23

Graph is accessible here :

twitter.com/friar_balsam/status/1483215004186955779?s=21
Case numbers in young children have risen sharply and we are pretending it's not a problem, it really is.

elelel · 17/01/2022 23:27

@DoubleShotEspresso

OP child has had covid this year already, cases in children may be rising but the child in question has already been counted in the figures. What would be the benefit of OP keeping them off?

superram · 17/01/2022 23:28

@DoubleShotEspresso why is it a problem? Kids get covid and immunity or doesn’t get covid? What am I missing?

PatriciaHolm · 17/01/2022 23:29

www.statsjamie.co.uk/children-in-hospital/

Some context for that graph. It does not mean that a higher proportion of children who get covid now are being admitted because they are seriously ill.

"Throughout the winter months, we get a weekly update on the number of children in pediatric beds. The total number of children in hospital remained flat and then fell as we headed into the Christmas period, with fewer admissions for some planned medical procedures. As we moved into the new year, numbers have increased slightly but still down on last month. So the Omicron wave of Covid-19 has not led to more children in hospital.

As more people get infected with Omicron, we would expect to see more people admitted to hospitals with it. At the extreme, if 100% of the population had Omicron, then every admission to hospital would be with Covid-19.

Children get admitted every day for a wide variety of reasons and the surge of Covid-19 through the Omicron variant has not led to an increase in the overall numbers of child hospital patients. In fact, the total number of patients has fallen over the recent Omicron wave. "

DoubleShotEspresso · 17/01/2022 23:33

[quote elelel]@DoubleShotEspresso

OP child has had covid this year already, cases in children may be rising but the child in question has already been counted in the figures. What would be the benefit of OP keeping them off?[/quote]
I clearly said I don't necessarily endorse taking children out of school. But cases are rising in our very youngest and to dismiss or minimise this is quite wrong . Children make up a growing percentage of case numbers and many are being hospitalised. The figures speak for themselves.

DoubleShotEspresso · 17/01/2022 23:34

[quote superram]@DoubleShotEspresso why is it a problem? Kids get covid and immunity or doesn’t get covid? What am I missing?[/quote]
Perhaps those families with CEV in their household? Those developing long Covid? Those requiring hospitalisations? Those whose experience is not "just a cold"?

elelel · 17/01/2022 23:47

I clearly said I don't necessarily endorse taking children out of school. But cases are rising in our very youngest and to dismiss or minimise this is quite wrong . Children make up a growing percentage of case numbers and many are being hospitalised. The figures speak for themselves.

You are presenting a case for something not related to the OP. People are dismissing the OP worries because the child has just had covid

LettertoHermoine · 17/01/2022 23:58

Complete ridiculousness.

DoubleShotEspresso · 18/01/2022 00:22

@PatriciaHolm

https://www.statsjamie.co.uk/children-in-hospital/

Some context for that graph. It does not mean that a higher proportion of children who get covid now are being admitted because they are seriously ill.

"Throughout the winter months, we get a weekly update on the number of children in pediatric beds. The total number of children in hospital remained flat and then fell as we headed into the Christmas period, with fewer admissions for some planned medical procedures. As we moved into the new year, numbers have increased slightly but still down on last month. So the Omicron wave of Covid-19 has not led to more children in hospital.

As more people get infected with Omicron, we would expect to see more people admitted to hospitals with it. At the extreme, if 100% of the population had Omicron, then every admission to hospital would be with Covid-19.

Children get admitted every day for a wide variety of reasons and the surge of Covid-19 through the Omicron variant has not led to an increase in the overall numbers of child hospital patients. In fact, the total number of patients has fallen over the recent Omicron wave. "

Interested where are you in the country observing this please? I feel in London there's much we have been misled on since the run up to Christmas (along with all the other Tory crap obviously!)

DoubleShotEspresso · 18/01/2022 00:25

@elelel

I clearly said I don't necessarily endorse taking children out of school. But cases are rising in our very youngest and to dismiss or minimise this is quite wrong . Children make up a growing percentage of case numbers and many are being hospitalised. The figures speak for themselves.

You are presenting a case for something not related to the OP. People are dismissing the OP worries because the child has just had covid

My intimate response to yoyursekf was really to your statements that children being sick with Covid was vanishingly small or something?! That's not quite the case which is of course a concern for somebody such as the OP of this thread. And having had Covid clearly doesn't mean chikdren are fully immune, we know dozens who have had it at least twice . Again a concern .

elelel · 18/01/2022 00:35

-My intimate response to yoyursekf was really to your statements that children being sick with Covid was vanishingly small or something?!

I haven't said anything of the sort.

DoubleShotEspresso · 18/01/2022 00:44

@elelel

-My intimate response to yoyursekf was really to your statements that children being sick with Covid was vanishingly small or something?!

I haven't said anything of the sort.

My mistake apologies - this statement was from @Meowwwwwww .