"We can't send home every child with a cough."

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Is what SLT have said.

They said they will only be sending pupils home if they have a high fever.

However the forehead thermometer reads at least 1 degree lower (a colleague brought in their ear thermometer from home and tested), so a 'high' fever would in fact read as normal.

It makes me so angry they're not following guidance.

3 children in my class were coughing last week.

A neighbouring primary school has closed 4 bubbles due to positive cases, so COVID is definitely in the area.

My grandad is in my bubble, but I won't see him now at the risk of passing something on

Have NC as my usual username is identifiable to RL.

Crazy how different schools are doing things. I was called to collect my son (year 7) last week after only being back at school a week - he had a sore throat and said he felt warm - they didn't even check his temperature. When I got there, there were 5 other children from his class also waiting to be collected!!! So their school is obviously being very cautious. Thankfully it wasn't covid this time!

We are sending ours home if they are poorly. Parents aren't generally too keen on this but that's just the way it is. I'd expect to be called to collect DS as well, if there was anything up. (He's in my school's nursery class.) It's more when they are having a temperature, though. We haven't had any cases so far.

But they don’t need to have a cough AND a temperature so either should trigger being sent home to get tested 🤷‍♀️

My school have said they cannot judge temperatures (won't use a thermometer) and obviously cannot judge if a child has lost sense of taste/smell, so coughs alone are what they can judge things on. However, it is a mixed bag as to whether they judge a cough to be a "persistent cough" or not. I understand it must be really hard for them to judge especially as non-medically trained people, but it does mean what a child is sent home with one day, a different child isn't sent home with another day.

Your SLT are contravening National Guidance then, OP...