Fed up with parents who send sick kids to school

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Anonymous wrote:The sick kids... ehh. The lice kids are the worst! DCPS allows kids with lice & it’s a mess. It spreads like wild fire.

It’s disgusting. NP here. Lice kids are the worst but i hope karma bites the a$$ of the charmer who sent their sick kid to school and caused my kindergartener to spend all of Christmas vomiting. Thanks a$$hole.

Also for those suffering through repeated lice hits due to dcps’s brilliant lice policy, we just do a lice comb out every week. When anyone at the school has lice we do a comb out every day. It sucks but it’s better than lice. Haven’t gotten it since we started doing this.

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder how elementary teachers don’t lose their cool over this. I see it all the time.

My SIL has been teaching elementary school for nearly 25 years. She is close to retirement. She talks about finally not being sick constantly.

In fact, i can barely remember a time when she hasn't had a cold !

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Anonymous wrote:Sending kids with vomiting, fevers, etc. is horrible, but I’m surprised to see so many people implying that kids should be kept home for coughs, colds, etc. Our pediatrician always says to go back to school after 24 hours fever free or similar...wouldn’t truancy be an issue if kids took a week off for every cold or minor virus? My otherwise-healthy little kids seem to have runny noses and sneezing half the winter, and the doctor says that’s typical.

No, it is not normal to have a cold for half if the winter. Maybe because your kids never get a chance to recover? No, this is not healthy.

So you send your coughing and sneezing kids with running nose to school? You don’t care about other kids or your own do you?

Cleveland Clinic says to send kids with mild cold symptoms to school.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/should-your-child-stay-home-sick-heres-how-to-decide/

+1. Pediatrician spouse, and we send our kid to school with mild symptoms (only one cold so far this year, kid doesn’t get sick often).

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We send our kids as long as the fever is under 102. We give them Motrin and they are fine. They are just sitting at school so they get rest and aren’t bored

If they are ok after having some medicine, I don’t see the harm in sending them to school. If they just threw up, then I would keep them home. If it was a couple of hours ago, it’s out of their system and should be good to go

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My parents sent me to school no matter what. Built up my immune system and made me strong.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah sorry my kid gets sick from going to school like once a month and we don’t take a week off every month.

We have jobs.

Yes, WE have jobs, but we also have sick leave and a duty to help our kids when they are sick, and to protect other families and individuals. Especially kids and the elderly. Don't lump me in with you. I work full-time, too, and have N-E-V-E-R knowingly sent a sick kid to school or daycare. Not once in 7 years.

I don't believe you. You have sent your kids to school thinking it was a mild cold, which later worsened and was diagnosed as strep. Otherwise you're saying you keep your child home for every sniffle.

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I am the poster who said to suck it up - for a cold!

If your child has a fever (not an elevated temperature of 99.4, but anything over 100), KEEP THEM HOME! Even if they are better with Motrin, all that is doing is making the symptoms, they are sick, and a fever means contageous, so KEEP THEM HOME!

Agree the lice is disgusting, and my DD has long, thick hair. Cannot stand getting the lice letter home.... We comb out as a preventative measure too....

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Anonymous wrote:I am the poster who said to suck it up - for a cold!

If your child has a fever (not an elevated temperature of 99.4, but anything over 100), KEEP THEM HOME! Even if they are better with Motrin, all that is doing is making the symptoms, they are sick, and a fever means contageous, so KEEP THEM HOME!

Agree the lice is disgusting, and my DD has long, thick hair. Cannot stand getting the lice letter home.... We comb out as a preventative measure too....

It is selfish as it spreads and everyone is sick.

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Anonymous wrote:so it's not been my experience that contagions are constantly sweeping the school. (Which is what you'd think from the hand-wringing on this thread.)

it’s been my experience that they sometimes have to close schools during flu seasons. Judging just by the number of posts here on people getting sick and having to change plans for Christmas, it’s prevalent.

My kid woke up with a fever this morning. Thanks to the ahole parent of the kid she caught it from. I can take her shopping, see a movie a restaurant, an indoor playground. But I’m not going to. I’m not an ahole.

You can avoid getting sick at the holidays by staying home from December 10-20. Do not allow anyone into your home. Live as though there's a plague out there. This is the the ONLY way to avoid germs. ALSO, if you're a truly responsible parent, you'd keep your child home during the contagious period BEFORE she shows symptoms. And if she vomits or has diarrhea, keep her home for the full 2 weeks after recovery so as not to contaminate any other kids.

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Meh, the common cold is no reason to stay home. My kids go to school when under the weather. As a business owner, sick days don't exist and I expect my kids to understand that. I grew up poor on a family dairy farm and it didn't matter how sick we were, they cows had to be milked twice a day. I make just over 1m a year

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Nope, my 4th grader isn't usually sick. My toddler has the requisite runny nose, but nothing unusual.

So now it's ok if they have a runny nose, but not ok if they sniff and cough? Ok Aunt Lydia. Good luck with that.

Your toddler is not going to miss calculus if he stays at home for a couple of days with running nose, sneezing and coughing. If you do send him the other kids will also catch the same cold. Also, it might turn into more than just a cold. Get it, Karen?

I’m amazed that your kids runny nose only lasts two days! What kind of supplements are you giving Sheila? We are in week #2 of same runny nose....

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Like I was saying. It’s your bad hygiene. It’s not normal to have colds that long. Do you wash your hands? Did your child have a chance to rest and recover or have you been pushing him out the door with a spoon of Ibuprofen?

Why are you giving ibuprofen for colds?

And you realize colds can be transferred by viruses in the air right? Recirculating air in indoor spaces during the winter is a mode of transmission for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:so it's not been my experience that contagions are constantly sweeping the school. (Which is what you'd think from the hand-wringing on this thread.)

it’s been my experience that they sometimes have to close schools during flu seasons. Judging just by the number of posts here on people getting sick and having to change plans for Christmas, it’s prevalent.

My kid woke up with a fever this morning. Thanks to the ahole parent of the kid she caught it from. I can take her shopping, see a movie a restaurant, an indoor playground. But I’m not going to. I’m not an ahole.

You can avoid getting sick at the holidays by staying home from December 10-20. Do not allow anyone into your home. Live as though there's a plague out there. This is the the ONLY way to avoid germs. ALSO, if you're a truly responsible parent, you'd keep your child home during the contagious period BEFORE she shows symptoms. And if she vomits or has diarrhea, keep her home for the full 2 weeks after recovery so as not to contaminate any other kids.

You are ridiculous. No one is keeping their kid home for two weeks bc of a little indigestion or the sniffles.

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Anonymous wrote:so it's not been my experience that contagions are constantly sweeping the school. (Which is what you'd think from the hand-wringing on this thread.)

it’s been my experience that they sometimes have to close schools during flu seasons. Judging just by the number of posts here on people getting sick and having to change plans for Christmas, it’s prevalent.

My kid woke up with a fever this morning. Thanks to the ahole parent of the kid she caught it from. I can take her shopping, see a movie a restaurant, an indoor playground. But I’m not going to. I’m not an ahole.

You can avoid getting sick at the holidays by staying home from December 10-20. Do not allow anyone into your home. Live as though there's a plague out there. This is the the ONLY way to avoid germs. ALSO, if you're a truly responsible parent, you'd keep your child home during the contagious period BEFORE she shows symptoms. And if she vomits or has diarrhea, keep her home for the full 2 weeks after recovery so as not to contaminate any other kids.

More or less I think this is a good plan. It is why you have to keep kids home for colds- you don’t always know if it will become strep and by then it is too late, the germs have been spread all over. Very contagious early on, and young kids can’t always articulate it is their throat that hurts.

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Hey OP - it's time to start making sure your kids wash their hands with soap. OK, thx!

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Anonymous wrote:so it's not been my experience that contagions are constantly sweeping the school. (Which is what you'd think from the hand-wringing on this thread.)

it’s been my experience that they sometimes have to close schools during flu seasons. Judging just by the number of posts here on people getting sick and having to change plans for Christmas, it’s prevalent.

My kid woke up with a fever this morning. Thanks to the ahole parent of the kid she caught it from. I can take her shopping, see a movie a restaurant, an indoor playground. But I’m not going to. I’m not an ahole.

You can avoid getting sick at the holidays by staying home from December 10-20. Do not allow anyone into your home. Live as though there's a plague out there. This is the the ONLY way to avoid germs. ALSO, if you're a truly responsible parent, you'd keep your child home during the contagious period BEFORE she shows symptoms. And if she vomits or has diarrhea, keep her home for the full 2 weeks after recovery so as not to contaminate any other kids.

You are ridiculous. No one is keeping their kid home for two weeks bc of a little indigestion or the sniffles.

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Anonymous wrote:The sick kids... ehh. The lice kids are the worst! DCPS allows kids with lice & it’s a mess. It spreads like wild fire.

It’s disgusting. NP here. Lice kids are the worst but i hope karma bites the a$$ of the charmer who sent their sick kid to school and caused my kindergartener to spend all of Christmas vomiting. Thanks a$$hole.

Also for those suffering through repeated lice hits due to dcps’s brilliant lice policy, we just do a lice comb out every week. When anyone at the school has lice we do a comb out every day. It sucks but it’s better than lice. Haven’t gotten it since we started doing this.

I speak from bitter experience - not all parents initially recognize the itching and check for lice. It happens. I can tell you for sure the bitchier and more sanctimonious you are, the fewer parents will report honestly. Being a grimy ass, like you, carriers consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:so it's not been my experience that contagions are constantly sweeping the school. (Which is what you'd think from the hand-wringing on this thread.)

it’s been my experience that they sometimes have to close schools during flu seasons. Judging just by the number of posts here on people getting sick and having to change plans for Christmas, it’s prevalent.

My kid woke up with a fever this morning. Thanks to the ahole parent of the kid she caught it from. I can take her shopping, see a movie a restaurant, an indoor playground. But I’m not going to. I’m not an ahole.

You can avoid getting sick at the holidays by staying home from December 10-20. Do not allow anyone into your home. Live as though there's a plague out there. This is the the ONLY way to avoid germs. ALSO, if you're a truly responsible parent, you'd keep your child home during the contagious period BEFORE she shows symptoms. And if she vomits or has diarrhea, keep her home for the full 2 weeks after recovery so as not to contaminate any other kids.

More or less I think this is a good plan. It is why you have to keep kids home for colds- you don’t always know if it will become strep and by then it is too late, the germs have been spread all over. Very contagious early on, and young kids can’t always articulate it is their throat that hurts.

I actually follow this plan when we have travel plans. The family goes on lockdown.

I also don’t take my kids to indoor play areas in the winter, ever.

I find the people who throw their hands up as if we’re all completely powerless to lessen or prevent illness weird.

Everyone gets sick, yes. Nobody can avoid illness completely. But that doesn’t mean you can’t take steps to reduce frequency.