Fed up with parents who send sick kids to school

[Anonymous]

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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.

No, it’s not pps fault that parents are too busy to check for lice. But nice try.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No, it’s not pps fault that parents are too busy to check for lice. But nice try.

I didn’t say too busy. In our kindergarten year, many parents had never encountered it before and weren’t great at checking. It sucked but the AAP doesn’t support a no-nits policy for many reasons, including the disparate impact on poor kids. What I’m getting at is that some of you are real Karens, at least online, and if you act like this IRL, and moralize about health, you can’t also be indignant if people hide their kid’s health stuff from you.

[Anonymous]

White kids get lice. In my 12 years of DCPS teaching I’ve never had an AA student get lice. Try again.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t have the ability to stay home with a sick child (or the resources to find appropriate childcare when your child is sick) then you shouldn’t have kids at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White kids get lice. In my 12 years of DCPS teaching I’ve never had an AA student get lice. Try again.

Try again is your fetch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t have the ability to stay home with a sick child (or the resources to find appropriate childcare when your child is sick) then you shouldn’t have kids at all.

Yes, only the rich should have children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t read the responses but it is easy enough to guess what they are..

I don’t think many parents (though I suppose there are some) would send their kids to school knowingly sick with strep. Odds are your kid was exposed before they knew. It is just part of life, and the way it goes with kids. I have one sick right now too (stomach bug). You will drive yourself crazy with bitterness if you keep thinking this way: I am a sahm and always keep my kids home (no reason not to) but I have missed a stomach bug (got called to pick kid up because she threw up on class) and things like strep are easily missed.

Oh yes they do. DS's friend came into school late and announced he had just been to the doctor and just dx'ed with strep. After the dr's visit, the mom drive him straight to school.

Gotta love it when the kids get old enough to self report.

[Anonymous]

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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.

No one is complaining about kids with sniffles or kids that are contagious before they are ill. We all know that's part of being in a society. We ARE rightfully complaining about parents who send kids to school with medicated fevers, with still-contagious strep or within 24 hours of vomiting. That's just selfish and irresponsible.

If people are reading who do that -- you do know there are children out there with medical conditions and compromised immune systems, and your behavior is very dangerous to them.

[Anonymous]

I used to have a friend who would give her kids Tylenol or Advil and send them to school sick. I mean sick as in high fevers she would you try to mask and send a miserably sick kid to school. She simply didn’t want to use any sick leave from work. Needless to say, we are no longer friends (although that is just one of many reasons why).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No one is complaining about kids with sniffles or kids that are contagious before they are ill. We all know that's part of being in a society. We ARE rightfully complaining about parents who send kids to school with medicated fevers, with still-contagious strep or within 24 hours of vomiting. That's just selfish and irresponsible.

If people are reading who do that -- you do know there are children out there with medical conditions and compromised immune systems, and your behavior is very dangerous to them.

Stop being so over dramatic. Every kid gets a fever or has to throw up once in a while. They are resilient. No need to keep them home of medicine is making them ok. That’s why they have nurses at school to make sure they are ok!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is complaining about kids with sniffles or kids that are contagious before they are ill. We all know that's part of being in a society. We ARE rightfully complaining about parents who send kids to school with medicated fevers, with still-contagious strep or within 24 hours of vomiting. That's just selfish and irresponsible.

If people are reading who do that -- you do know there are children out there with medical conditions and compromised immune systems, and your behavior is very dangerous to them.

I dont think you read the thread especially the block quote in your post which I cut. People are saying that you should keep your kids home before they are symptomatic? Two WEEKS after the diarrhea is gone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC was fine Friday and Saturday and woke up Sunday with a high fever. It hasn’t gone down and urgent care said both the flu test and strep test were negative. I’m not blaming anyone. Viruses come on quick and fast. We will stay home for Christmas and cancelled plans. That’s life. We are not the first in the extended family to cancel for sickness and won’t be the last.

If it does not go down without alternating Tylenol and Motrin, and there is no congestion or other respiratory symptoms, consider Kawasaki disease. It will damage the heart if not treated within 10 days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you don’t have the ability to stay home with a sick child (or the resources to find appropriate childcare when your child is sick) then you shouldn’t have kids at all.

Yes, only the rich should have children.

You don’t have to be sick, just willing to use a day of leave. This is basic stuff here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t have the ability to stay home with a sick child (or the resources to find appropriate childcare when your child is sick) then you shouldn’t have kids at all.

Yes, only the rich should have children.

You don’t have to be sick, just willing to use a day of leave. This is basic stuff here.

This is where you start to get the responses about how they have 3 kids and can’t possibly take off work every time one of their kids is sick. Because common sense certainly wasn’t a factor that went into the choice to have the number of children they have. —attended a completely optional low key social event last night where it came out that one of the kids there had diarrhea 8 times yesterday, said the parent with a shrug. Guess who now has stomach pains and diarrhea?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t have the ability to stay home with a sick child (or the resources to find appropriate childcare when your child is sick) then you shouldn’t have kids at all.

Yes, only the rich should have children.

You don’t have to be sick, just willing to use a day of leave. This is basic stuff here.

This is where you start to get the responses about how they have 3 kids and can’t possibly take off work every time one of their kids is sick. Because common sense certainly wasn’t a factor that went into the choice to have the number of children they have. —attended a completely optional low key social event last night where it came out that one of the kids there had diarrhea 8 times yesterday, said the parent with a shrug. Guess who now has stomach pains and diarrhea?

Stop exaggerating Betty. Having to poop more than once a week is not diarrhea