Scottish schools opening

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I was ready for schools opening, but this new research has given me pause for thought. I think this came out after Sturgeon's decision. What do you all think?

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/31/georgia-children-covid-outbreak/#click=t.co/Y9gSG9zENz

Quote from the article:

"A new report suggests that children of all ages are susceptible to coronavirus infection and may also spread it to others — a finding likely to intensify an already fraught discussion about the risks of sending children back to school this fall.

The analysis, released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, details an outbreak at a sleep-away camp in Georgia last month in which 260 children and staffers — more than three-quarters of the 344 tested — contracted the virus less than a week after spending time together in close quarters. The children had a median age of 12. The camp had required all 597 campers and staff members to provide documentation that they had tested negative for the virus before coming. Staff were required to wear masks, but children were not."

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Goodness *@Lidlfix* , that's awful. The kids just don't care do they? Ours are far too relaxed about the whole thing. I know the numbers are low (and so do they) but we're aiming to keep them that way. But at the same time I feel like I'm always banging on about covid till I'm boring myself.

Kids just don’t care

I don't really know how you go from "kids just don't care" to "deliberately infecting".

That was in response to me having to have a test following a incident in school. You had to go to Friday to find it.

Are you accusing me of making it up?

From NS' comments, it looks as though we're likely to move to compulsory masks. I'm unclear if it's high school only or primary too. At least it's one small step in the right direction.

I imagine it will be high school if the WHO is saying over 12s should wear them. Poor dd wears glasses- anyone got a good mask for wearing with them?

@Lidlfix

Calpol and off you pop often leads to a miserable child sitting in reception till their parents can pick them up when it wears off.

Calpol as pain relief for a sprained ankle or period pains etc is one thing but quite another to bring down a temperature .No I wouldn't have sent mine in those circumstances.

I wouldn't send a kid with a temp either. But I have sent them in with a runny nose because it's just a runny nose and they are otherwise well and able to attend, and also with coughs, because my son often has a cough from September to March, that lasts weeks after he has actually been unwell.

Saw a tip on Facebook for glasses wearers but it only works with fabric masks. It was to sew a button where the glasses sit , it then lifts them off the face allowing more air to circulate and reduces misting up.

No idea if it works though.

The original comment on Calpol and off you pop didn't offer any explanation as to why the medicine was used. I was offering my parental view on when I personally would have given my child Calpol and let them go to school and when I wouldn't.

I was also explaining what can happen when Calpol wears off. We all see it as parents at home it's not any different at school. And I have never underestimated the magical qualities of distraction that pink liquid has.

I've found a fabric mask with a nose strip works best with my glasses.
Someone told me putting a strip of tissue paper or a coffee filter at the nose strip helps too but I haven't tried it.

Ok, well let's spend ages parsing sentences shall we, or just stick to the actual conversation at hand?

Happy to stick to the conversation at hand when the accusations made about me and requirement to defend my profession and parents who have worries is not necessary.

As I recall it was about shared concerns over schools reopening.

No accusations came from me, let's just move on.

No that was Wouldbe but she/he hasn't had the good grace to apologise for her accusation.

Maybe she'll rock up any minute with a change of heart

No inclination to apologise, thanks.

Man this thread turned sour. What a shame, I was finding it really interesting and useful. So many school threads are England-dominated and I liked that this one was just for us.

I’m happy to leave it. Enough's enough.

The thread is still interesting and useful. Just skip over the posts that deliberately try to derail.

The BBC is reporting masks are going to be introduced in communal areas and corridors. Isn't the advice that we shouldn't be taking masks on and off or touching them? Surely it would make more sense to make them compulsory all the time except outdoors.

Plus their only chance to distance (assuming they choose to) is in communal areas. It's in the classroom where they have no choice but to sit shoulder to shoulder and across the desk from a classmate.

I went to one of the identikit new build high schools and the communal areas were worse than the classrooms. The corridors and staircases were very narrow and the main social area was called ‘the crush’.

Our classrooms were slightly more roomy, there were about six inches of space between us!

Think all desk and chairs face front now so they arent facing anyone. I agree with wearing them in corridors and social areas and to have them off in class

Our communal areas tend to be full of pupils from different year groups so there's little space for distancing and lots of possibilities for contact between different ages.

In most of the classrooms in our school they're seated in groups. It's the only way we can fit them all in.