Son been sent home from Burton road school today due to Covid

You could, but I’d argue that you and your family need it as well.

 

Not until 14 days.

 

But the rest of us can? Its mind boggling. Due to his care needs I'm fairly confident if he had we all would. Well I've already tested positive once mind.

 

I know, it makes no sense.

 

Because the person in his bubble has tested positive?

 

What was Son Heung Min doing at Burton Rd School?

 

At my school, we just send child home with symptoms and rest stay in school.

 

Not supposed to test without symptoms.

 

Sons school, Ridgewood in Doncaster has already had 2 full year groups or bubbles as they are now called all sent home to self isolate for 14 days after pupils in each of the bubbles tested positive, regardless of close contact, a teacher also tested positive from one of the year groups and he'd been covering classes in other years so those classes were sent home to self isolate too, it's. Crazy

 

Turns out the person with Covid is their teacher not another pupil

 

What happens when they test positive though?

 

That’s another thing that’s different to us, no one who is classed as having ‘direct contact’ self isolates until there is a positive test.

 

Kids stay in same classroom and teachers come to them. Masks are worn when moving around the building. Separate zoned off areas for each year group at break and lunch plus different exit/entry points for start and end of day. Regular cleaning of ‘touch points’. All doors propped open and windows open. No sharing of resources unless quarantined for 72 hours. No more than 3/4 staff allowed in a workroom at a time and staff wipe down all tables/chairs they use and dividers have been installed. No meetings in person, all to be held over Zoom. No assemblies except over Zoom. There’ll be more but going to bed now.

 

My 2 nephews at that school, can't see them at minute due to the rule of 6.

 

It’s really sad that you’ve been scared to the extent that you believe there should be ‘protocols‘ in place to prevent children from being children.

 

It sounds utterly appalling. If I was trying to design an environment to encourage future agoraphobics, depression sufferers and the generally mentally ill, that’s pretty much exactly what I’d set out.

Still, ‘stay safe’.

 

You’re aware that there’s not only children in schools, right? And that they all go home at the end of the day? Still, if their elderly TA, diabetic teacher, asthmatic dinner supervisor, overweight dad etc. dies it won’t matter will it? They all had pre-existing conditions so their death means nothing. What about the kids who also have pre-existing conditions (of which we have a lot as we also have a special school on site so we get lots of disabled kids in mainstream as we have an adapted building), does their death matter or are they just a statistic too?

 

Kids are resilient, they don’t walk around miserable moaning about a bit of fabric they have to wear for a few minutes at a time. They work hard (most of them), have a laugh with friends and just get on with the changes rather than complaining every 2 seconds.

 

My daughter has had nightmares nearly every night since she went back to school about members of her family dying.

And that’s in an environment where we reassure her about the infinitissimaly small level of risk; I can only dread to think how much some children are suffering and how much irreversible psychological damage is being done to young children being brought up in an environment where Mum takes in the Karen from Facebook posts about 300 children per day dying that Jimmy Viz put up on here.

As for your obese TA being at risk - obviously these measures were always in place when there was glandular fever, or flu, or chicken pox, or any other virus that posed a significant danger to those with other underlying conditions that previously swept through the school, right?

I do understand that everything that you are doing is well intentioned, but these measures are doing far more harm than good in my opinion.

 

My daughter Malin Bridge primary in Sheffield was sent home this morning as someone in their bubble has the Rona. Told to isolate for 14 days no further instructions.