I think the only situation where our school requires testing/quarantine for a school exposure is if they were unmasked and at the same lunch table (they have assigned seats). Or if multiple kids in one class test positive. Since they are masked in the classroom one sick kid wouldn’t be considered an exposure.
The exposure in my preschooler’s class last week turns out to be a pre symptomatic kid who developed symptoms 24hrs later. We have skipped out on group activities since then but not school
She was not, she said, explaining that she has had “adverse reactions to vaccines in the past” and that a doctor advised her against getting inoculated against the coronavirus.
Assuming this was actually backed up with evidence, unless her kid is very high risk, this makes me really uncomfortable.
Does this even go here? I have no idea, but it’s an @ post so maybe you can help.
DS (6) is having horrible nose bleeds. He was tested for covid 1.5 weeks ago and it was negative. (Other symptoms caused concern) not sure if correlation is causation. The only other change is his daily mask usage now he’s in school. Not wearing the mask is not an option. Any tips or suggestions on how to help stop the nose bleeds? I feel silly going to the pediatrician for this. He’s been a chronic nose bleeder since early on. They have just ramped up to daily. We started the humidifier and I ordered some little noses saline spray. We tried elevating his head, but he’s sleeps like a wild person. He is never where we left him.
My kid is a chronic nosebleeder. She’s had a ton this summer. They come in clusters for her — the scab never heals. Try Vaseline.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Does this even go here? I have no idea, but it’s an @ post so maybe you can help.
DS (6) is having horrible nose bleeds. He was tested for covid 1.5 weeks ago and it was negative. (Other symptoms caused concern) not sure if correlation is causation. The only other change is his daily mask usage now he’s in school. Not wearing the mask is not an option. Any tips or suggestions on how to help stop the nose bleeds? I feel silly going to the pediatrician for this. He’s been a chronic nose bleeder since early on. They have just ramped up to daily. We started the humidifier and I ordered some little noses saline spray. We tried elevating his head, but he’s sleeps like a wild person. He is never where we left him.
I was a chromic nose bleeder as a kid. My doctor recommended a vitamin E supplement. I remember it working.
I couldn't swallow pills at the time and it tasted awful unless it was in applesauce with lots of cinnamon.
Does this even go here? I have no idea, but it’s an @ post so maybe you can help.
DS (6) is having horrible nose bleeds. He was tested for covid 1.5 weeks ago and it was negative. (Other symptoms caused concern) not sure if correlation is causation. The only other change is his daily mask usage now he’s in school. Not wearing the mask is not an option. Any tips or suggestions on how to help stop the nose bleeds? I feel silly going to the pediatrician for this. He’s been a chronic nose bleeder since early on. They have just ramped up to daily. We started the humidifier and I ordered some little noses saline spray. We tried elevating his head, but he’s sleeps like a wild person. He is never where we left him.
My kid is a chronic nosebleeder. She’s had a ton this summer. They come in clusters for her — the scab never heals. Try Vaseline.
This is why Iam wondering if it was the swabs. They started a day or so after. Mix in the nose blowing from his cold and then the daily mask once he returned to school. He has a few a month, but it’s been daily for over a week. He’s waking up at night with them. We had to change his pjs last night.
DD1 started back at school yesterday. I'm having a lot of feelings about everyone acting like Covid is over. I didn't want DD1 to take the bus, but everyone else we know is using it and she *really* wanted to, so I caved. There are 70 kids packed on the bus, it gave me anxiety watching her get on. Luckily we are close to the last stop, so it is a short ride. But it just seems like an unnecessary extra exposure when she's already in school and afterschool, which are necessary. I live in MA and even my most conservative friends seem to be going back to normal: indoor birthday parties, adding back in multiple indoor activities, etc, etc. I signed DD1 up for swim lessons, so I guess I'm guilty too. She is 6 and has always been too afraid to take them and she *finally* asked for them, so I jumped on it. I'm not a good swimmer and I regret it, so I want to make sure she is better off than I was.
I don't know, I just wish the damn FDA would get their act together and prioritize the vaccine for kids already! As others have said many times, it is really feeling like little kids are an afterthought and no one cares but their parents. I'm tired of Covid, I'm tired of being anxious, I'm exhausted from decision fatigue, and I'm jealous of my friends with kids age 12+. I want this to end and the vaccine is our ticket back to normal.
noodleoo my friend knows how conservative I am regarding covid exposure, and she keeps sending me all these after school activities asking if I’m signing DD1 up. It’s baffling. No she’s not going to indoor yoga run by a known anti-masker. Wth.
I do have her in swim, but not knowing how to swim is also a really high risk. I want her to be an independent swimmer next summer for going to the beach.
noodleoo my friend knows how conservative I am regarding covid exposure, and she keeps sending me all these after school activities asking if I’m signing DD1 up. It’s baffling. No she’s not going to indoor yoga run by a known anti-masker. Wth.
I do have her in swim, but not knowing how to swim is also a really high risk. I want her to be an independent swimmer next summer for going to the beach.
OMG same! That's what is driving me nuts. I had one friend who was being similarly conservative to me, but now she's opening up and I can't figure out if I'm being too cautious or not.
Agreed on swimming too. I personally think swimming is an essential life skill, gymnastics and karate can wait to me.
Post by SusanBAnthony on Aug 31, 2021 10:17:47 GMT -5
It hasn't happened yet but I don't think we will keep DD home if there is an exposure in her class unless the school tells us to. She is in middle school and changing classes so I think if we kept her home for any positive she'd never go to school.
We have bought 3 Binax Now tests and will use them when it makes sense, and take her for a PCR when it makes sense. Not sure exactly what that will be if she is asymptomatic since the Binax doesn't work as well for that.
Does anyone know if any of the home tests work better for asymptomatic kids? If I felt like it worked I would probably just test her daily at home for 5 days.
aspentosh , if the guidance is that my kid can still attend school, I am still sending my kid to school but paying close attention to symptoms. I would also rapid test them.
But I am pretty anti- extreme quarantine scenarios because they are so disruptive to learning. And after 18 months of this I am less tolerant of my kids missing out on big chunks of learning if they don't have to. So I am never going to hold my kid out if the quarantine guidelines do not require me to do so. I am just being honest of where my headspace is right now.
I would pause on social stuff because that is not necessary.
Thanks for this. It's been weird opening back up and you make a great point. Just because I could keep her home without huge disruption to my life because I SAH, doesn't mean I should. She needs to be in school and if the school allows her to go, then we'll send her.
Social stuff makes sense and seems like a no-brainer though. Just wasn't sure if I was being too intense about it.
Post by karinothing on Aug 31, 2021 10:48:27 GMT -5
My kids had their first day of real school since March 2020 yesterday. They were the happiest I have seen them in a long time. It went fantastic. Fingers crossed the year is a good one.
My school district is full of a bunch of fucking idiots putting politics over kids. One school board member even solicited emails from anti-maskers so when the board debates the merits of mandating masks, he'd have a similar stack of letters as those advocating FOR masks.
Every sentence I type after that could be used against me by the FBI or maybe my job, so i keep deleting them. I'm so incensed.
My kid is a scout and my spouse is a leader. At a large, families invited event, a car pulled up and another leader yells, "Everybody! Come say hi to X! They can't come out to play because they're in quarantine!" and a huge group of troops swarmed the car to give hugs and high fives.
We left. Spouse is pissed. The event was outdoors, the scouts have done most things virtually for a year and a half, and this other leader is dumber than a box of rocks.
I’m also pissed for you that the parent drove their kid to an event knowing that they are in quarantine, even if they stayed “in the car”…. Cause clearly hugging friends is not staying away.
Post by karinothing on Aug 31, 2021 13:30:15 GMT -5
My district created a virtual school for kids this year. They did this instead of referring kids to the State wide virtual system. I don't know the real reason why. But anyway, school started yesterday and they have 42 open teacher positions because no one wants to teach. I am not sure wtf is going to happen but it seems like a mess. I feel bad for folks .
Does anyone know if any of the home tests work better for asymptomatic kids? If I felt like it worked I would probably just test her daily at home for 5 days.
The home tests don't catch all asymptomatic infections. My sister was PCR positive but repeatedly tested negative on the binax tests. She confirmed PCR positive with a second PCR.
I honestly don’t understand why we’re opening schools with the Delta surge and being so close to getting these kids vaccines.
There were so many opinion pieces back in April that covid, like all viruses, was going to move into whatever population it could — so while case counts overall might plunge due to the vaccine, it would surge for the unvaccinated. And yet, most of those pieces and warnings from health officials didn’t address the **very large population** of kids excluded from the vaccine. So now they’re shocked? It’s maddening.
I feel like it’s because we now know the harm of kids not being in school after this long. If we knew then what we knew now, I bet every school would have reopened last year, or much earlier than they did last year. Instead, the push is to open this year to make up for what was basically a lost year and we are facing Delta instead. It sucks.
I totally agree. It all sucks and no decision is a great one, but we have to get kids back to school.
Post by gretchenindisguise on Aug 31, 2021 13:47:44 GMT -5
My kid has learned how to game the system at 6y.o. He knows if he has symptoms he has to stay home. Apparently the test and the strep test aren't big enough deterrents. I'm so annoyed, but the 'what if..." keeps him home.
karinothing, I was told the county has to pay for any student in the state virtual program. I'm not sure if that is 100% true, but it's what I was told when I was at the school for PTA stuff.
Also, our parent FB group seemed to have quite a few issues with the virtual school because they're on their own schedule. I guess on person was supposed to start class August 18 and was asking who to contact because they had no login/teacher info.
I feel like it’s because we now know the harm of kids not being in school after this long. If we knew then what we knew now, I bet every school would have reopened last year, or much earlier than they did last year. Instead, the push is to open this year to make up for what was basically a lost year and we are facing Delta instead. It sucks.
I totally agree. It all sucks and no decision is a great one, but we have to get kids back to school.
Correct. We also don't know how close we are to kid vaccines. If we had a timeline (cough, FDA, you listening?!) maybe we could make decisions based on that. We don't though. We have anywhere from October- early 2022. Clearly that isn't anything we can plan around so school goes on. Why we are trying to pretend it's 2019 in the south though I don't know. Surely there is some middle ground.
Does anyone know if any of the home tests work better for asymptomatic kids? If I felt like it worked I would probably just test her daily at home for 5 days.
The home tests don't catch all asymptomatic infections. My sister was PCR positive but repeatedly tested negative on the binax tests. She confirmed PCR positive with a second PCR.
My son had an exposure at school and I couldn’t get a PCR same day (can anyone?). He was freaking out about having the test so I did a Binax test and it was negative (he did the PCR the next morning). A few days later I spoke to someone from the Health Dept to clear up some questions I had and she said the rapids are basically useless if you don’t have symptoms and to save my money.
Just got an email from the school, DD was exposed again. And has to quarantine again. For the 2nd time this month. She'd already been having trouble with the class work (she struggled last year too) so this is just fucking great. Masks are optional at school and she's one of just a few that wears them.
But, hey, FrEedoM right? Fuck it all. I hate it here 🤬🤬🤬
Well, shit. DD was exposed to COVID in class and now has to quarantine for 10 days. She can go back if she has a negative test and no symptoms after day 5.
Just got an email from the school, DD was exposed again. And has to quarantine again. For the 2nd time this month. She'd already been having trouble with the class work (she struggled last year too) so this is just fucking great. Masks are optional at school and she's one of just a few that wears them.
But, hey, FrEedoM right? Fuck it all. I hate it here 🤬🤬🤬
See if you aren’t going to require masks quarantines for exposure should be optional, too. Yes I’ll accept my flames now but that is SO frustrating!! I’m very sorry. Masks for all seems like the easiest solution here and yet it’s apparently asking too much.
Just got an email from the school, DD was exposed again. And has to quarantine again. For the 2nd time this month. She'd already been having trouble with the class work (she struggled last year too) so this is just fucking great. Masks are optional at school and she's one of just a few that wears them.
But, hey, FrEedoM right? Fuck it all. I hate it here 🤬🤬🤬
See if you aren’t going to require masks quarantines for exposure should be optional, too. Yes I’ll accept my flames now but that is SO frustrating!! I’m very sorry. Masks for all seems like the easiest solution here and yet it’s apparently asking too much.
Thanks. It continues to boggle my mind how much thought and planning has gone into reporting symptoms/positives, how to complete missed work and Zoom etc. There's a whole 4 page outline. But when it comes to, I dunno, maybe preventing some of this in the first place? It's like everyone just throws up their hands. This isn't fucking rocket science. We've been in this a year and a half for Christ's sake.
See if you aren’t going to require masks quarantines for exposure should be optional, too. Yes I’ll accept my flames now but that is SO frustrating!! I’m very sorry. Masks for all seems like the easiest solution here and yet it’s apparently asking too much.
Thanks. It continues to boggle my mind how much thought and planning has gone into reporting symptoms/positives, how to complete missed work and Zoom etc. There's a whole 4 page outline. But when it comes to, I dunno, maybe preventing some of this in the first place? It's like everyone just throws up their hands. This isn't fucking rocket science. We've been in this a year and a half for Christ's sake.
Right. We took everything that worked last year and threw it away. Truly the bullies won. It’s disheartening. Hang in there.
Just got an email from the school, DD was exposed again. And has to quarantine again. For the 2nd time this month. She'd already been having trouble with the class work (she struggled last year too) so this is just fucking great. Masks are optional at school and she's one of just a few that wears them.
But, hey, FrEedoM right? Fuck it all. I hate it here 🤬🤬🤬
See if you aren’t going to require masks quarantines for exposure should be optional, too. Yes I’ll accept my flames now but that is SO frustrating!! I’m very sorry. Masks for all seems like the easiest solution here and yet it’s apparently asking too much.
No flames from me. If you’re going to require quarantines, which are waaaaaaay more disruptive, then require masks too. Or don’t require either because if you don’t require masks, you’re not taking this shit seriously anyway (“you” = districts or states).
Thanks. It continues to boggle my mind how much thought and planning has gone into reporting symptoms/positives, how to complete missed work and Zoom etc. There's a whole 4 page outline. But when it comes to, I dunno, maybe preventing some of this in the first place? It's like everyone just throws up their hands. This isn't fucking rocket science. We've been in this a year and a half for Christ's sake.
Right. We took everything that worked last year and threw it away. Truly the bullies won. It’s disheartening. Hang in there.
I keep thinking this. And I say that knowing the kids are better off in school. But, we had some things in place that helped them stay in school. Like masks, different lunch protocols, more outdoor time, etc
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Aug 31, 2021 15:18:39 GMT -5
We finally sort of have our quarantine requirements! Unmasked exposure 3 ft or less apart requires a 10 day quarantine, but can return with a negative test taken 5 days after exposure. No need to quarantine if exposure is outside or if fully masked. Masks are required, so this should cut down on the need to quarantine.
There are exceptions for kids who are vaccinated or have had covid within a certain amount of time before, but those aren't applicable to us yet.
No word on what actually happens for school during that quarantine period yet. I assume they get bumped to the district's virtual academy but who knows.
Post by 5kcandlesinthewind on Aug 31, 2021 15:25:40 GMT -5
We went to the open house for my kid's school today, and it was chaos. The teachers were just coming back from an all district meeting, so some of them weren't even in the classroom yet. We got told two different locations for drop off/pick up, and both were different than what the email from the principal said. I know they are still figuring this out,and I feel for them, but as someone who plans events for a living, this shit makes me crazy.
Also, his classroom (1st grade) is set up so there are groups of 4 (2x2) facing each other, and there were at least 4-5 groups in the room. I was trying not to have a panic attack about it. I told my husband when we left, "well, at least I'll know exactly what to picture in my nightmares."