Always wonder whether we’re going to see some massive health crisis in the future with hundreds of thousands of these children being allowed to just get Covid and the potential unknown long term side effects
Hopefully won’t happen, but nobody seems to consider it as a possibility
But according to OFSTED, covid is just an excuse and hasn’t been running rampant through schools at all. No sir.
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It’s the teachers too. Massive increase this week in Covid cases in teachers
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It is bad. One child in my class tested positive on Thursday by Monday it had spread to 6 positive cases. Monday evening it was decided for the class to do home learning for the week and not to come to school to minimise spread. Last night it was up to 10 children positive plus myself and my TA. Also other cases popping up in different classes. I know lots of parents are keeping their child off if they are worried about it now too.
Also I worry for when we come back, children we’re starting to feel more comfortable in school, less crying on the gate and separation anxiety but now we’ll be starting from square one again when we do return.
Anecdotally, apart from covid, the past 2 weeks has seen so many of my friends/acquaintances get very bad flu / horrific colds and coughs leading to absence from work.
I’m an expat, been chatting with my family still in the UK about the school covid stuff.
Where I am, kids are required to wear a face mask all-day in school. At the elementary school my kids are in, the canteen isn’t open for eating, kids are eating out sides their classes where weather is permits, or in their classroom for as short as a time as possible. Playtime has been broken into two sessions, half of the classes in each, with them separated on the playground by year group. They’re doing batch testing once a week, every kid. (batch testing is every kid doing a nasal swab in a classroom, dropping it in to a shared container, so it’s anonymised, but also cheaper).
If one kid in a family gets COVID, the other kids have to stay home too. The school emails every time a case happens in the school, and kids are required to isolate for a week (plus show a false test result) if they are classified as having had close contact with a covid positive kid (sits within a certain distance of them in class). We’ve had a that happen back in September.
In an area with a covid per-capita case count similar to the UK, we’ve had maybe 15 cases in a school of several hundred students, so far this school year.
Then I hear about the UK arrangement and it sure sound like practically bugger all is being done. No masks, only kid with a positive test is isolated, rest of the the family still able to go to school. Everything else seems pretty much life as normal, like there is no pandemic. Only thing it sounds like you’re doing that’s better is the proliferation of at home testing and the requirements around that.
What I don’t get is: where are the UK teacher’s unions in this mess. Why are they not looking out for the health of the teachers and their families? Why are the teachers not going out on strike until the government implements more sensible covid precautions? They could turn this situation around almost immediately.
Definitely seeing this at my school… we’ve been very lucky and had very few cases so far this year but they’ve suddenly shot up.
They should be closed for 2 weeks at least as a fire break.
Breaking news: not allowing an age group to get vaccinate for months causes cases to be high in those groups.
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I’m not talking about vaccinating primary age, but secondary age should have been one of the first ones vaccinated. Do they really think 1000s of people all sharing one building all day every day won’t spread disease?
2 of my friends got covid which is kinda ironic because i was in close contact with someone with covid and pcr was negative no symptoms had no contact with them and those two got it
We are at 75% staffing, there are no supply teachers to be had, staff are falling left and right due to anti-vax scum among the parents AND teachers covering lessons of staff who have already had to isolate due to covid.
I’ve had a message today. They are doing a study next week at my daughters secondary school. They are doing LF one day, postal PCR the next, then the third day a lateral flow so they can check the accuracy…… how many kids will be off when the results come in!
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Always wonder whether we’re going to see some massive health crisis in the future with hundreds of thousands of these children being allowed to just get Covid and the potential unknown long term side effects
Hopefully won’t happen, but nobody seems to consider it as a possibility
But according to OFSTED, covid is just an excuse and hasn’t been running rampant through schools at all. No sir.
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It’s the teachers too. Massive increase this week in Covid cases in teachers
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It is bad. One child in my class tested positive on Thursday by Monday it had spread to 6 positive cases. Monday evening it was decided for the class to do home learning for the week and not to come to school to minimise spread. Last night it was up to 10 children positive plus myself and my TA. Also other cases popping up in different classes. I know lots of parents are keeping their child off if they are worried about it now too.
Also I worry for when we come back, children we’re starting to feel more comfortable in school, less crying on the gate and separation anxiety but now we’ll be starting from square one again when we do return.
Anecdotally, apart from covid, the past 2 weeks has seen so many of my friends/acquaintances get very bad flu / horrific colds and coughs leading to absence from work.
I’m an expat, been chatting with my family still in the UK about the school covid stuff.
Where I am, kids are required to wear a face mask all-day in school. At the elementary school my kids are in, the canteen isn’t open for eating, kids are eating out sides their classes where weather is permits, or in their classroom for as short as a time as possible. Playtime has been broken into two sessions, half of the classes in each, with them separated on the playground by year group. They’re doing batch testing once a week, every kid. (batch testing is every kid doing a nasal swab in a classroom, dropping it in to a shared container, so it’s anonymised, but also cheaper).
If one kid in a family gets COVID, the other kids have to stay home too. The school emails every time a case happens in the school, and kids are required to isolate for a week (plus show a false test result) if they are classified as having had close contact with a covid positive kid (sits within a certain distance of them in class). We’ve had a that happen back in September.
In an area with a covid per-capita case count similar to the UK, we’ve had maybe 15 cases in a school of several hundred students, so far this school year.
Then I hear about the UK arrangement and it sure sound like practically bugger all is being done. No masks, only kid with a positive test is isolated, rest of the the family still able to go to school. Everything else seems pretty much life as normal, like there is no pandemic. Only thing it sounds like you’re doing that’s better is the proliferation of at home testing and the requirements around that.
What I don’t get is: where are the UK teacher’s unions in this mess. Why are they not looking out for the health of the teachers and their families? Why are the teachers not going out on strike until the government implements more sensible covid precautions? They could turn this situation around almost immediately.
Definitely seeing this at my school… we’ve been very lucky and had very few cases so far this year but they’ve suddenly shot up.
They should be closed for 2 weeks at least as a fire break.
Breaking news: not allowing an age group to get vaccinate for months causes cases to be high in those groups.
​
I’m not talking about vaccinating primary age, but secondary age should have been one of the first ones vaccinated. Do they really think 1000s of people all sharing one building all day every day won’t spread disease?
2 of my friends got covid which is kinda ironic because i was in close contact with someone with covid and pcr was negative no symptoms had no contact with them and those two got it
We are at 75% staffing, there are no supply teachers to be had, staff are falling left and right due to anti-vax scum among the parents AND teachers covering lessons of staff who have already had to isolate due to covid.
I’ve had a message today. They are doing a study next week at my daughters secondary school. They are doing LF one day, postal PCR the next, then the third day a lateral flow so they can check the accuracy…… how many kids will be off when the results come in!