Schools and Covid 19 (part 5) **Mod warnings in OP**

Didn't say straight away, I said we could order them, and even if delayed they would eventually come. Baffled by the resistance to something that helps improve the health, safety and learning outcomes of our kids, irrespective of covid. But I'll leave it there.

Just got a message that school is reopening tomorrow following talks with board of education (CBS primary Wexford)

20 past 9 at night we were informed of this

It's all a bit of a mess really. A bit of an over reaction to close the school in the first place maybe but I don't envy the school board with the decision they had to make. They obviously felt it was the right thing to do.

Saying that I don't see why they wouldn't just leave it closed until Friday and let them off on mid term. A lot of parents we know aren't sending the kids back for the week now as if it was so unsafe that they had to close a couple of days ago they aren't very comfortable with sending them back.

Thanks for the reply. I'm a teacher and felt the same as you about the board having to make that decision. Hope you and yours keep well.

Yeah but also very high community incidence of the disease, which according to NPHET is what creates school problems.

Can you explain how schools and community differ?

I see this frequently but don't got where the border is between them?

And by the same token the kids who may bring it in to school mix with other kids in school who then bring it back to their families. The traffic goes both ways, but if there's no track, trace, test for school children that falls under the catch all community transmission.

Exactly. This is the bit that the government "experts" gaslighting on Twitter seem to ignore.

Personal favorite this week's was one of them days "we don't understand why there is a large case increase in 5-12 year olds."

Parents will take this into their own hands now . MM treating people like they were stuipid will not go down well

Schools are safe he says while at the same time saying no contact tracing for children . Is he for real ? The dogs on the street know he is talking absolute shoite

"insert Norma 'head in the sand' Foley Schools are safe meme"

Course if you don't contact trace, you can't actually know that.

The vaccine is suppressing case numbers in the older age groups by stopping many getting sick. If your vaccinated your not considered a close contact unless you have symptoms. It makes sense for there to be an increase in the incidence for this age group especially when the numbers in the community are so high.

Children were at school last year interacting & mixing. They still remained the group with the lowest incidence.