Please stop sending sick kids to school!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

I don't feel like playing your game, so I will just ask: is it true you don't understand how parents can't stay home anymore after two years of staying home for every sniffle and exposure? If so, please just figure it out so you can stop making an ass of yourself with this "it's called parenting" bs.

[Anonymous]

My high school students are passing around several different viruses, as far as I can tell. Covid is definitely in the mix, and I know that because two students are now out with it. There also seems to be a remarkably nasty cold hitting several of my classes. I’d say 1/5 of my students are showing some type of symptom, and yet they are in class.

I can’t enforce anything, but I sure wish at the very least they would be wearing a mask when they tell me they have sore throats. I’m just counting the days before I’m out sick at this point. I just hope it’ll be minor because I can’t let my classes fall too far behind.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

In many jobs, no you can't. You will get fired. You can't stay home for every cold.

You take leave without pay. Somehow I doubt you are an hourly minimum wage worker.

I'm not an hourly minimum wage worker. I also can't take leave without pay for a cold.

Then hire a nanny if you refuse to take care of your kids.

Are you stupid?

[Anonymous]

I agree, missing 7-10 days for a cold isn't normal. That's a personal problem of your own and the world can't function by catering to your abnormal immune system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My high school students are passing around several different viruses, as far as I can tell. Covid is definitely in the mix, and I know that because two students are now out with it. There also seems to be a remarkably nasty cold hitting several of my classes. I’d say 1/5 of my students are showing some type of symptom, and yet they are in class.

I can’t enforce anything, but I sure wish at the very least they would be wearing a mask when they tell me they have sore throats. I’m just counting the days before I’m out sick at this point. I just hope it’ll be minor because I can’t let my classes fall too far behind.

You say you don't want your class to fall behind, but guess what? All those sick kids are also at school because they don't want to fall behind either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two issues: kids get mildly ill all the time but are still capable of learning. I remember telling my mom once that I didn’t feel well and asked to stay home from school. Her response? “You think I feel 100% every day at work? You’re not throwing up; go to school.” I’ve had to watch myself from unconsciously adopting my mom’s attitude towards my own kids. I guarantee she never considered whether I got other kids sick. Kids went to school, kids got mildly sick from time to time, and life moved on. Nothing to see here, folks.

Second, my kids, like most kids in this country, lost a year’s worth of school and virtual learning doesn’t cut it in early elementary. Once they returned, they didn’t know if they would be at school the next day or not. Class quarantines, PCR tests, lunch table quarantines, 14 day quarantines, 5 day quarantines, different rules for vaccinated vs. partially vaccinated vs. unvaccinated…I can’t keep up anymore. One child old enough to be vaccinated, the other not (until recently). Different rules for elementary rules and preschools/daycares. If school is open and my kids feel up to going if they’re mildly under the weather, I’ll send them to school. If the school sends them home, so be it.

If this sounds contradictory, it probably is. Two years of this and my brain is fried.

You bring up a really good point about kids still catching up from the learning lost during the closures.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

Tell you don't have kids and a job without telling me you don't have kids and a job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree, missing 7-10 days for a cold isn't normal. That's a personal problem of your own and the world can't function by catering to your abnormal immune system.

This. My kids have been passing mild colds back and forth since school started. But its clear snot and about 1 day of real sickness and a couple days of sniffles. I kept the 6 year old home with me when she was very stuffy and miserable. Of course then i got the cold and I'm now on week 2 of it. But thats because my immune system is weakened from previous sinus infection and general tendency towards bronchitis. My own fault for snuggling with her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My high school students are passing around several different viruses, as far as I can tell. Covid is definitely in the mix, and I know that because two students are now out with it. There also seems to be a remarkably nasty cold hitting several of my classes. I’d say 1/5 of my students are showing some type of symptom, and yet they are in class.

I can’t enforce anything, but I sure wish at the very least they would be wearing a mask when they tell me they have sore throats. I’m just counting the days before I’m out sick at this point. I just hope it’ll be minor because I can’t let my classes fall too far behind.

You say you don't want your class to fall behind, but guess what? All those sick kids are also at school because they don't want to fall behind either.

I can help them if they are home. I can do virtual office hours. I can edit their documents and send feedback. There’s a lot I can do to keep kids from falling behind. I’m doing it right now for the responsible kids staying home. (Yes, they are being responsible.) The ones in class are just keeping this little Petri dish of a classroom active.

If I get sick, I can’t help the ones at home or the ones in class.

I’m a big fan of doing what’s best for the group, not what’s best for me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

In many jobs, no you can't. You will get fired. You can't stay home for every cold.

You take leave without pay. Somehow I doubt you are an hourly minimum wage worker.

Np. At my job, you earn your leave monthly for hours IN PAY STATUS. You really screw yourself if you take lwop. The other thing is, lwop is a great way to get put on a PIP. Employers don't want you gone so often that you've used up all your leave. You are privileged, and there are only so many super cush jobs in the world that let you take unlimited leave.

[Anonymous]

You're angry that 3 year olds are at school with nasal congestion? Wut?

[Anonymous]

I don't send them when they're miserable, fatigued, feverish, or sneezing or coughing uncontrollably. But I also can't keep them home 1-3 weeks every time waiting for the sniffle or cough to clear up 100%. There's a difference between a very mild or lingering symptom and being actively sick. For a while during covid we DID have to keep them home for both. Now we don't.

I don't know about you but I get 13 days of sick leave a year. How many days is your kid sick with at least a sniffle or cough in preschool? More than 13 a year? Yeah.

[Anonymous]

Welcome back to normal, OP.

[Anonymous]

Getting 2 colds a month that turn into bronchitis, or last 10 days, each time is not normal for an adult, OP. See your doctor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

In many jobs, no you can't. You will get fired. You can't stay home for every cold.

You take leave without pay. Somehow I doubt you are an hourly minimum wage worker.

You can’t do that in every job w/out risking losing your job! Even if you’re not an hourly minimum wage worker. You seem completely clueless about what many jobs in this country are like if you think most people can take off every time their kid has the sniffles. I’d be taking off at least a week each month if I had my kids stay home every time they had a runny nose or were congested.

You only keep kids home for fever, vomiting/diarrhea, and/or if they test positive for flu/covid/strep.