Sending kids to school with a cold but no fever?

[Anonymous]

FWIW, I knew a mom who did keep her kid home. Guess what? Principal called and said the kid was missing too many days. (It was an awful lot of days.)

[Anonymous]

FWIW, I knew a mom who did keep her kid home. Guess what? Principal called and said the kid was missing too many days. (It was an awful lot of days.)

cont. These werent' all "days in a row". The kid would say 'I don't feel good" and mom let her stay home.

[Anonymous]

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The kid would say 'I don't feel good" and mom let her stay home.

I ask my kid if she's dying. She just looks at me funny.

Then I take her temp and if no fever, she goes to school. OK, if she's hacking up a lung, then I'll keep her home, but otherwise, too bad. She's a drama queen and I tend to think she's exaggerating her symptoms.

My mom fell for my "I don't feel good"s in HS, but that's because I wasn't like my kid in ES. Of course, by HS, I was using those days to do homework or studying - I was so wild and crazy

[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"

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).

I understand. In America you only take sick leave if you are dying.

The rest of the time you feel comfortable and justified spreading your contagious bodily fluids onto others.

[Anonymous]

PPs would love my kid--runs hot, feels like he has a fever if you touch his head but absolutely normal temp.

Plus he gets a dry cough in winter that lasts december-april.

Ped just says to tell people he has a hot head and to relax.

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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.

You can call whatever you want.

We live overseas. She can set her own office hours and she frequently drops off or picks up her kids from school. Where parents wait for pick up they can see more than half the elementary kids who are either picked up by parents or who walk themselves home because very few ride the bus; most leave via one entrance. She sees a lot of kids at the school as patients because she speaks English. She says most days she is at school (which is not every day) she sees someone who came to see her the day before and is probably not ready to be back in school.

[Anonymous]

Always told my son that he could stay home--but no computer or tv. He usually decided to go. If he were really sick, it was obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP. I won't send with a horrible cold that kept them up coughing or continually blowing nose. Minor cold yes..they can go on and on. I do the same for myself in terms of work. This isn't daycare. They are going for a reason.

+2.

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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.

You can call whatever you want.

We live overseas. She can set her own office hours and she frequently drops off or picks up her kids from school. Where parents wait for pick up they can see more than half the elementary kids who are either picked up by parents or who walk themselves home because very few ride the bus; most leave via one entrance. She sees a lot of kids at the school as patients because she speaks English. She says most days she is at school (which is not every day) she sees someone who came to see her the day before and is probably not ready to be back in school.

Why are you on the Va Public school forum? I call BS too!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You can call whatever you want.

We live overseas. She can set her own office hours and she frequently drops off or picks up her kids from school. Where parents wait for pick up they can see more than half the elementary kids who are either picked up by parents or who walk themselves home because very few ride the bus; most leave via one entrance. She sees a lot of kids at the school as patients because she speaks English. She says most days she is at school (which is not every day) she sees someone who came to see her the day before and is probably not ready to be back in school.

Why are you on the Va Public school forum? I call BS too!

Jesus. Some people work overseas for a year or two and then come back to DC. But if guess you've never met anyone from the State Department or military. My kids spent 4 years in Va public schools and next year we'll be back so chillax.

Which part of this is scandalous or BS-worthy? That there are parents who send their kids back to school the next day after seeing the doctor for an illness or the fact that in other countries doctors aren't locked in their offices 5 days a week and actually get to take their own kids to and from school and converse with other parents?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

You can call whatever you want.

We live overseas. She can set her own office hours and she frequently drops off or picks up her kids from school. Where parents wait for pick up they can see more than half the elementary kids who are either picked up by parents or who walk themselves home because very few ride the bus; most leave via one entrance. She sees a lot of kids at the school as patients because she speaks English. She says most days she is at school (which is not every day) she sees someone who came to see her the day before and is probably not ready to be back in school.

Why are you on the Va Public school forum? I call BS too!

Jesus. Some people work overseas for a year or two and then come back to DC. But if guess you've never met anyone from the State Department or military. My kids spent 4 years in Va public schools and next year we'll be back so chillax.

Which part of this is scandalous or BS-worthy? That there are parents who send their kids back to school the next day after seeing the doctor for an illness or the fact that in other countries doctors aren't locked in their offices 5 days a week and actually get to take their own kids to and from school and converse with other parents?

I don't find it strange that you live overseas and come to this general forum, but I do find it completely odd that you would comment on a thread that doesn't have anything to do with you since your kids aren't in the school system and by your own definition follow a different set of standards in another country. If you don't like the "send kids to school unless fever" standard, stay where you are. That's what we have operating here, and that's what most parents follow.