Are all schools a germ breeding ground?

[cookiemonstermum]

Hi all,

Don't know if I just need a moan

My daughter is in year 1 and just getting over the flu. Most her class and school have been off with it. She's now missed her flu vaccine again (missed last year's too due to covid outbreak at school)

Just before that it was a lovely sickness bug. Children were being sick in assembly.

We fast forward to tonight and inching she's coming down with Hand Foot and Mouth. She's only was in 3 days last week.

Are all schools just as bad as last year over 6 or 8 weeks there was a outbreak of chicken pox this followed buy most her year and her teachers being off with covid then few days after them all coming back had an out break of HFM.

Surely if things were being cleaned ect it shouldn't be this bad. I fear that I will yet again get a letter stating her attendance isn't up to par but she's off due to things she caught at school.

She never caught anything while at nursery! (She was there over 4 years to!)

So are all schools like this?

It is how children are and pandemic isolation has made it so much worse. I have a child who is same age as yours - they spent all their preschool time in isolation and bubbles, socially distanced from others which meant they didn't catch anything. I had hoped we would have had CP, HF&M etc all over and done with in nursery years but nothing spread because of COVID and now it is going crazy.

I feel for those with children who are generally just more susceptible, it definitely is really hard. I am lucky mine don't tend to pick a lot up but we have had CP, Noro, COVID over the past year as I feel it was inevitable.

One positive of being in private sector is they don't really monitor attendance (unless child is always off) and have no qualms about you keeping kids at home if under the weather.