Sending kids to school with a cold but no fever?

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Anonymous wrote:I send my kid with a cold unless she is truly unable to function. Definitely keep home for fevers.

I'm also one of the first to volunteer to help out with trips and PTA stuff. Oh, and I lead her Girl Scout troop.

So, no correlation.

As long as it's not during work hours right???? Lol!!! You are an idiot.

Why are you so mean and judgemental? I'm not the poster you quoted, but I'm offended for him/her. Who said anything about whether or not this person works? And if he/she works, why does that make the person an idiot? Is it just that you enjoy laughing at people and mocking them? If that's the case, I'd hardly call you an example of how to be kind to your fellow humans, which I thought was part of the point of the argument about keeping kids with colds home (keep them from infecting others, be kind and do a service to your fellow schoolmates). You are not kind. You are a mean bully.

That's the kind of jerk that gives SAHMs a bad name. So any time you see WOHMs giving SAHMs a hard time, it's pent up BS from reading that crap all the time on this board. It's ironic, though. All these SAHMs want to go back to work "when the kids are in school." Well, now what?

That road goes both ways on the boards.

Yup. For the reasons outlined above.

[Anonymous]

If I kept my kid home for every cough and runny nose, they'd miss 50% of school.

No school for fever but runny nose? Hell yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I kept my kid home for every cough and runny nose, they'd miss 50% of school.

No school for fever but runny nose? Hell yes.

+1, not to mention seasonal allergies...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I send my kid with a cold unless she is truly unable to function. Definitely keep home for fevers.

I'm also one of the first to volunteer to help out with trips and PTA stuff. Oh, and I lead her Girl Scout troop.

So, no correlation.

As long as it's not during work hours right???? Lol!!! You are an idiot.

funny thing is, I work from home during school hours, and my hours are flexible. So, I can certainly rearrange my schedule if needed. I don't consider a normal cold or allergies (which again, is so hard to tell sometimes) a reason to miss school. Period. If I knew something nasty was going around the school (like strep) and my kid came to me complaining of those type of symptoms, I'd take her to the doctor to rule that out.

You're not going to wipe out the common cold by keeping your kid home half the winter.

[Anonymous]

Pediatrician's twins are in kindergarten with my son. Doctor mom says it's appalling how many kids she sees at school the day after they are sick in her office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pediatrician's twins are in kindergarten with my son. Doctor mom says it's appalling how many kids she sees at school the day after they are sick in her office.

So, in 4 weeks, she's seen an appalling number of kids in school the very next day? What kind of school do your kids go to? We don't go into the classroom; not allowed. No way would I even know who was in school that day. I call BS.

[Anonymous]

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It doesn't have to do with "brightness", it has to do with the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day. Each hour of academic class time has an hour of homework. If you miss a week, then you have to make it up within a week- which mean 2 hours of homework for each hour of class time. It is difficult even for the brights, most diligent and best time managing teenager. Add in the tests to make up during class time and they have even missed more classes.

what? Your teenager is incapable of doing school on his own, at home? He needs a teacher to helicopter over him? What an infintile generation you are raising. Lost without instructions.

[Anonymous]

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You're not going to wipe out the common cold by keeping your kid home half the winter.

The whole reason your kid is sick for half a winter is due to your neglegent parenting. It's not normal to get sick so often and you are just ignoring it and treating it as if it were normal.

[Anonymous]

I sure hope Ebola doesn't make it to DC schools. Cause it will be like "so what you have a little fever, suck it up and go to school"

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Anonymous wrote:I sure hope Ebola doesn't make it to DC schools. Cause it will be like "so what you have a little fever, suck it up and go to school"

hahahha....so true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I sure hope Ebola doesn't make it to DC schools. Cause it will be like "so what you have a little fever, suck it up and go to school"

hahahha....so true.

Harhar. Except everyone is making fun of the exact opposite.

[Anonymous]

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You're not going to wipe out the common cold by keeping your kid home half the winter.

The whole reason your kid is sick for half a winter is due to your neglegent parenting. It's not normal to get sick so often and you are just ignoring it and treating it as if it were normal.

I didn't say my kid was sick half the winter. It sounds like some other people's kids are. My own is generally pretty healthy. I basically do what my own parents (who worked in schools themselves) did with me.

But it's really not worth arguing with you. You're perfect mommy - all the rest of us should bow down to you

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Anonymous wrote:This is a interesting and not surprising thread. No wonder sicknesses spread like weeds at work and at school. This thread reminds me of the threads about parent involvement or volunteering. I would bet money that the same parents who are pro sending their kids to school sick are the same ones who are anti-volunteering at or in support of the schools. It is sad how work truly engrosses people to the point that they are a slave or make themselves slaves to their jobs. Bottom line, there are times when you just need to do the right thing by your child and in respect of the other kids when it comes to spreading sickness around.

What?? I send my elementary school kids to school with colds. I'm also one of the first in line to volunteer at our school. Colds linger for weeks and it seems like as soon as one ends then another begins for the first few months of school. They would miss so much school if they were home with colds. When they are truly sick, I keep them home. They've never won any perfect attendance awards.

Preschool, I tended to keep them home more. They were messier with sneezing and blowing their own noses. Plus, even in elementary school, so much work is missed in even one day. They run around here like maniacs when they have colds so think they can handle a school day. Regular colds do not slow them down.

Ever heard of emailing the teacher to go pick up the missed work at the front office? When my child is at home, they can do the work at home. It is just a matter of not having to be at school, going to PE, having to be on and around all the usual day to day when it helps to just rest but still get the work done.

Thank you so much for the novel idea of emailing the teacher!!! That is great! We will be home for every sniffle now. I am sure the teachers will not mind my kids missing 30+ days per year.

There is so much more involved in the school day than the few worksheets the teacher sends home for a sick day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:This is a interesting and not surprising thread. No wonder sicknesses spread like weeds at work and at school. This thread reminds me of the threads about parent involvement or volunteering. I would bet money that the same parents who are pro sending their kids to school sick are the same ones who are anti-volunteering at or in support of the schools. It is sad how work truly engrosses people to the point that they are a slave or make themselves slaves to their jobs. Bottom line, there are times when you just need to do the right thing by your child and in respect of the other kids when it comes to spreading sickness around.

What?? I send my elementary school kids to school with colds. I'm also one of the first in line to volunteer at our school. Colds linger for weeks and it seems like as soon as one ends then another begins for the first few months of school. They would miss so much school if they were home with colds. When they are truly sick, I keep them home. They've never won any perfect attendance awards.

Preschool, I tended to keep them home more. They were messier with sneezing and blowing their own noses. Plus, even in elementary school, so much work is missed in even one day. They run around here like maniacs when they have colds so think they can handle a school day. Regular colds do not slow them down.

Ever heard of emailing the teacher to go pick up the missed work at the front office? When my child is at home, they can do the work at home. It is just a matter of not having to be at school, going to PE, having to be on and around all the usual day to day when it helps to just rest but still get the work done.

Thank you so much for the novel idea of emailing the teacher!!! That is great! We will be home for every sniffle now. I am sure the teachers will not mind my kids missing 30+ days per year.

There is so much more involved in the school day than the few worksheets the teacher sends home for a sick day.

PP, you are so clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sure hope Ebola doesn't make it to DC schools. Cause it will be like "so what you have a little fever, suck it up and go to school"

Nobody was suggesting we send kids to school with a fever. Read the title! I'm at teacher, and I'm sure parents would be complaining if I was out everytime I or my toddler had a runny nose. I appreciate when parents ask for make-up work, but not everything can be made up (I'm not particularly pro-worksheets).