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S☼I said:
Tend to agree up to a point, but learners missed out on everything like this the last couple of years so can see why it's going ahead.
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And with most 'adults' acting like it's all over and done with already, I do feel that kids should be given some leeway to have some kind of normality. They've already had to carry so much throughout all this.
 
S☼I said:
Tend to agree up to a point, but learners missed out on everything like this the last couple of years so can see why it's going ahead.
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Understood, but the venue/occasion?, I feel there may be better choices than taking 40 excited kids to a packed indoor gaming event at this point in time
 
We’ve been lucky in having friends willing to take kids to school for us while we’re both still suffering/isolating, today the first day they’ve both gone in and I’ve been able to genuinely rest. We did test them with lateral flows, eldest has had no sign of symptoms at all, youngest is still coughing and snotty but it’s probably something else (he’s been like this for a couple of weeks). One of the parents doing the run for us has just recovered from covid herself so not putting herself at risk.

Feel a bit blessed for this, a whole week stuck in a basement flat with them has been hard even though they’ve been really good and played together with little input needed.

I suspect there’s been a lot off at school given the number of parents I know infected, all being well I should be back in working there on Thursday to find out.
 
elbows said:
Things arent going very well round here. A primary school in my town has been closed so far this week due to Covid-induced staff shortages, and a bit further away Rugby has such high rates that they've reintroduced mask advice for secondary schools.

www.coventrytelegraph.net

Nuneaton school remains closed over 'key staff shortages due to Covid 19'

St Paul's Primary School is closed for the second day running
www.coventrytelegraph.net www.coventrytelegraph.net
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Bearing in mind the current level of school staffing/attendance crisis is despite the DfE cooking the books over what constitutes a close contact. If actual close contacts of people with positive contacts were being sent home schools would already be closed en masse. Or maybe we'd have actually kept a lid on transmission with those controls still in place, and there'd actually be less disruption by now, not more. We'll never know I guess.
 
The wording is, 'staff are responsible for ensuring that they could not be considered a close contact of any staff member or student who tests positive'. Not, 'staff should actually avoid contact' because that would be impossible. What we're actually expected to do is maintain deniability.
 
I'm getting a feeling that there is a few things coinciding at the moment and we may be looking at something interesting towards the end of October. The option of extending half-term by a week as a mini-firebreak is still there but I just cannot see any signs the government will consider it. Covid is over and no one should think about it anymore.
 
Teaboy said:
I'm getting a feeling that there is a few things coinciding at the moment and we may be looking at something interesting towards the end of October. The option of extending half-term by a week as a mini-firebreak is still there but I just cannot see any signs the government will consider it. Covid is over and no one should think about it anymore.
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And there's no transmission in schools.
 
"It feels like a normal school again," Deputy head teacher Liz Lord says. "But at the same time, we're dealing with, unfortunately, a rise in the number of Covid cases.

"It causes concern and it causes worry. The number of school Covid cases is higher than it was in the summer.

"But it hasn't got the same level of disruption, because we're not sending kids around the person who is ill home to self-isolate any more."

Real fucking bright spark this one :facepalm:
 
Heard the Alenco on speaker phone today. Christ knows what she was doing even trying to speak to the school - she couldn't. Couldn't get her words out, fighting for breath, had to stop the call and give up. Wow. Asthmatic, 5 weeks into her Covid. So that's long covid then.
 
Overheard some kid this week complaining that he'd been getting high marks pre-lockdown and was now failing just about everything. Impossible to pull apart the effects of lost teaching, lost socialisation and endless screen time during lockdown but the issues with kids clearly runs deeper than the amount of subject content transmitted. There are so many kids in schools with effectively zero ability to self-regulate or focus on anything at all, and many of them are at an age when they're soon to be turfed out into the adult world. Pretty scary stuff.

I think curriculum catch-up needs to be abandoned tbh, for most kids at least. It's a losing battle until enough of them are emotionally and socially functional again. That's if there any teachers left by Christmas of course.

Not very coherent thoughts today, sorry. Been a fucker of a day :(
 
SpookyFrank that must be very disheartening for everyone, best of luck with it. I resigned from my TA job in a junior school end summer term 2019, feel like I dodged a bullet
 
Badgers said:
inews.co.uk

Health chiefs probe 'high number' of positive lateral flow tests followed by negative PCRs

A number of people in the south west of England have reported testing positive for Covid-19 in lateral flow tests and then negative in subsequent PCRs - sparking fears of faulty tests or a even a new variant of the killer disease
inews.co.uk inews.co.uk
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Follow-up article:

inews.co.uk

Mystery deepens as scores more report positive lateral flow test followed by negative PCRs

On Thursday dozens of people contacted i with stories of testing positive on lateral flows and then negative on PCRs, with scores more claiming the same on social media
inews.co.uk inews.co.uk

Government is saying it’s not a technical problem with the kit or a new variant, and suggest it’s down to people doing the test wrong, which is bollocks given that it’s the same method for lft and PCR.
 
Sunday night and Tuesday night at ours (or the next morning before going in). Mine got picked up by the routine Sunday night one. I’d done an extra one on the Friday before, ahead of going to a funeral, which was negative. Then went to the pub for the first time in about 2 years and infected a load of people :facepalm:
 
The pace of vaccination of the school aged teenager group has not been impressing people and here is one look into it.

 
Badgers said:
inews.co.uk

Health chiefs probe 'high number' of positive lateral flow tests followed by negative PCRs

A number of people in the south west of England have reported testing positive for Covid-19 in lateral flow tests and then negative in subsequent PCRs - sparking fears of faulty tests or a even a new variant of the killer disease
inews.co.uk inews.co.uk
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This happened to my mate in Glos at the weekend. Ex and younger child got positive LFTs followed by neg PCRs. Friend and older child's LFTs both negative.
 
The receptionist at my youngest's school was telling me this happened to her secondary age kids recently - very strong positive lfts and then a negative pcr so they both had to go back to school with their "colds".
 
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