Re-opening Schools?
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sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Pupils off in four out of five schools in England waiting for Covid tests
School leaders say government has ‘failed schools and children’ as Eton pays for private tests for all staff and pupils
So, no surprise, but there IS provision and testing capacity for private schools, using private providers (would they be the same lot we're funding to undertake tests everywhere else?), which appears to be running quite efficiently.
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
No, I didn't. They must have borrowed that trick from DWP and their careful non-recording of benefits-withdrawal-related suicides.
baldrick
hmmmmm
There is a facility for schools to report on covid related attendance daily but it isn't statutory. I know a number of schools are not completing it. In theory PHE should have the information anyway. But they've been overwhelmed.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Do you keep your kid off if they get a isolated rash though? Think currently the advice is not.
Thora
Differently Ethical
No you're not supposed to. But given only half of symptomatic kids get fevers and less get coughs I'd be thinking about covid if they had the more common symptoms (headache, sore throat, rash etc).
I think most people know that
No. As per the message she had a cold plus a rash.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Honestly I think, much as I hate to say it, it would just be better to plan that schools will be shut for the 'spring' term. I mean, they will be shut long before then, but I don't think they should even plan schools to go in, at least not secondaries, Jan-March, unless there is an amazing breakthrough in treatment, testing or prevention before then.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Just happened to be on Eton's shot put and hammer field today. Yeah, they they have a dedicated facility just for shot put and hammer. Driving past their extensive cricket fields and tennis complexes. made me doubly angry.
for the obvious reasons of course.
...but also those kids and their parents have literally acres of space to socially distance whilst looking at the crowds of kids and parents at my local primary crammed cheek to jowel on a narrow pavement with streams of cars whizzing past and kids weaving in and out on bikes - all with no chance of avoiding catching or spreading the virus.
murdering public school bastards in charge.
for the obvious reasons of course.
...but also those kids and their parents have literally acres of space to socially distance whilst looking at the crowds of kids and parents at my local primary crammed cheek to jowel on a narrow pavement with streams of cars whizzing past and kids weaving in and out on bikes - all with no chance of avoiding catching or spreading the virus.
murdering public school bastards in charge.
Johnny Doe
Well-Known Member
(Cross-posted from 'Pandemic Personal Consequences' thread, when I remembered this thread.
Eldest boy's school mailed at 8:30pm last night to say they'd been informed of a confirmed case 'in the school community' and were closed today to take advice from the appropriate authorities. We paid a fortune to a top SEN solicitor to make the LA send him to a decent SEN school and so far he's been there 2 weeks, watching cartoons because half the teachers aren't in. They finally managed to get his LA transport sorted for this morning and we had to send them away.
Meanwhile, youngest boys school have reported two cases 'in the community' and stayed open.
Is 'in the community' code for 'not a pupil or teacher' I wonder? If so, if they are going to close every time a relative tests positive. it's going to closures all over the place.
Eldest boy's school mailed at 8:30pm last night to say they'd been informed of a confirmed case 'in the school community' and were closed today to take advice from the appropriate authorities. We paid a fortune to a top SEN solicitor to make the LA send him to a decent SEN school and so far he's been there 2 weeks, watching cartoons because half the teachers aren't in. They finally managed to get his LA transport sorted for this morning and we had to send them away.
Meanwhile, youngest boys school have reported two cases 'in the community' and stayed open.
Is 'in the community' code for 'not a pupil or teacher' I wonder? If so, if they are going to close every time a relative tests positive. it's going to closures all over the place.
chilango
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it could be a parent. or a cleaner or a dinner lady or the lollipop man or a governor or...
...well you get the drift. "school community" is just a useful umbrella term.
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Johnny Doe
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Thora
Differently Ethical
This is going to be the way it is now I think, two weeks on/two weeks off. We're going to end up with part time/blended learning despite the government being able to claim they have schools fully open and full time for all.It's a teacher, it's turns out. My son's teacher in fact. Class closed for 2 weeks
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Dear god no. Never going to happen.
And nor should it. Kids need school. At the very least the eldest four years need to be in, and have a fair crack at their exams. But too many homes which may normally cope, are not safe or nurturing places when everyone is home 24/7. And even when families aren’t struggling, it’s a rare child who is engaging fully with work and social stimulation at anything even approaching normal levels when stuck at home.
But at any rate, it just won’t happen. The govt sees closing schools nationally as anathema, and there’s no public will for it - which wasn’t the case in the spring.
Johnny Doe
Well-Known Member
And for my autistic boy, who has just moved to an additional needs school, as he was so far behind his peers in his mainstream school, the chasm widens
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Hard to know what they can do, though.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
What makes me angry is that it’s just a matter of money. Schools could be completely safe, with routine weekly testing of all staff and students, if enough money was thrown at it. If it’s happening at private schools then it can be done.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
There's plenty of other stuff that will or should shut first.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
My wife is a teacher. Kid in her tutor group is off awaiting test results. Close colleague also off awaiting results.
Feels inevitable at this point.
If she doesn't pick it up, I will either from campus or from schools I work with.
If we get lucky twice, my daughter is at school f/t.
Focussing on staying strong and fit right now.
Feels inevitable at this point.
If she doesn't pick it up, I will either from campus or from schools I work with.
If we get lucky twice, my daughter is at school f/t.
Focussing on staying strong and fit right now.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
My issue is that I’m not sure about seeing friends or family socially any more. Because I’m now surely a high risk to their safety, because of the exposure I’m facing.
I live on my own now anyway. It’s a bit of a sad thing. I’m going to feel the lack of hugs soon.
I live on my own now anyway. It’s a bit of a sad thing. I’m going to feel the lack of hugs soon.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Yep. I'm lucky not only do I have my family with me but many of friends are in the same boat as me (Uni or teachers), but have still had to "say goodbye" to people who I won't see 'till we get to the other side of this for the same reasons of higher exposure.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Whereas some of my closest friends are medically vulnerable (so am I, but that’s a whole other... whatever. I’ve made my peace with my own exposure to risk), and my mum is both old and vulnerable herself - but also lives alone and is really depressed for the first time in her life because she’s lonely.
At least I’m not lonely. I have a thousand or so people around me all day at work...!
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