Fed up with parents who send sick kids to school

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who works at a school learns quickly who the shitty parents are. After about the third time, no one believes you when you say your kid was fine this morning or that you didn’t give them any meds before you put them on the bus. And yes, the lice parents are the worst.

+1 I worked at a small, part-time preschool and there were parents (most of whom were SAHM's) who brought very sick 2, 3, and 4 year old children in to our school, often more than once per school year. It broke my heart when these poor little kids,, often soon after arrival, ended up on the floor, asleep and flushed with fever. But, for those parents, I guess, it was all about "me" time; can't interrupt that class at the gym or the morning coffee with friends!

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who works at a school learns quickly who the shitty parents are. After about the third time, no one believes you when you say your kid was fine this morning or that you didn’t give them any meds before you put them on the bus. And yes, the lice parents are the worst.

+1. We know and we despise you. We can tell when you’ve dosed your poor kid with Motrin at 7am to hide that fever. It inevitably spikes at about lunchtime. We try to call. Leave a voicemail. You finally call back 30 minutes before school ends apologizing. You were in a meeting and, of course had no idea your child was sick. We know who you are. And we think you are a shitty parent.

How often does this happen? You’re dramatic so I’m assuming never. And I SAH and my kid missed days of this semester because I keep her home when sick!

It happens multiple times per year in my experience (Pk-2nd grade)

My own mom did this all the time in elementary school. She worked full though.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who works at a school learns quickly who the shitty parents are. After about the third time, no one believes you when you say your kid was fine this morning or that you didn’t give them any meds before you put them on the bus. And yes, the lice parents are the worst.

+1. We know and we despise you. We can tell when you’ve dosed your poor kid with Motrin at 7am to hide that fever. It inevitably spikes at about lunchtime. We try to call. Leave a voicemail. You finally call back 30 minutes before school ends apologizing. You were in a meeting and, of course had no idea your child was sick. We know who you are. And we think you are a shitty parent.

How often does this happen? You’re dramatic so I’m assuming never. And I SAH and my kid missed days of this semester because I keep her home when sick!

It happens multiple times per year in my experience (Pk-2nd grade)

You are saying that multiple times per year there are different parents who dose their kids with motrin and then do not answer their phones for hours on end during the day? I have a really hard time believing it. Sorry.

But if they had Motrin and are fine, Whats the need for the parents to pick them up. They are fine. You are depriving Them of learning.

Because they are contagious and Motrin wears off.
And I think missing one day of preschool isn't going to keep them out of HYP, Linda.

[Anonymous]

I think I'm coming down with a cold. Trying to figure out if I should take my 8AM flight tomorrow...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think I'm coming down with a cold. Trying to figure out if I should take my 8AM flight tomorrow...

Wear a mask

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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.

My kid had a minor cough and a low grade fever. I kept her at home and soon we found out it was a contagious walking pneumonia that got a lot worse very quickly. Had I been an ahole like some, she would have bern spreading it at school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think I'm coming down with a cold. Trying to figure out if I should take my 8AM flight tomorrow...

Wear a mask

x100000

The worst is the parents who bought tickets to Disney, refuse to reschedule, and get the whole plane sick, plus the next plane full of people, with all the germs. So freaking selfish. Masks are 50 cents each. Buy them for you and your petri dish family -- and spare everyone else the unsuspected and unexpected grief of spending their only vacation in ten years, in bed. How gross can you be?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who works at a school learns quickly who the shitty parents are. After about the third time, no one believes you when you say your kid was fine this morning or that you didn’t give them any meds before you put them on the bus. And yes, the lice parents are the worst.

+1. We know and we despise you. We can tell when you’ve dosed your poor kid with Motrin at 7am to hide that fever. It inevitably spikes at about lunchtime. We try to call. Leave a voicemail. You finally call back 30 minutes before school ends apologizing. You were in a meeting and, of course had no idea your child was sick. We know who you are. And we think you are a shitty parent.

oh, but kids are resilient..

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who works at a school learns quickly who the shitty parents are. After about the third time, no one believes you when you say your kid was fine this morning or that you didn’t give them any meds before you put them on the bus. And yes, the lice parents are the worst.

+1. We know and we despise you. We can tell when you’ve dosed your poor kid with Motrin at 7am to hide that fever. It inevitably spikes at about lunchtime. We try to call. Leave a voicemail. You finally call back 30 minutes before school ends apologizing. You were in a meeting and, of course had no idea your child was sick. We know who you are. And we think you are a shitty parent.

How often does this happen? You’re dramatic so I’m assuming never. And I SAH and my kid missed days of this semester because I keep her home when sick!

It happens multiple times per year in my experience (Pk-2nd grade)

You are saying that multiple times per year there are different parents who dose their kids with motrin and then do not answer their phones for hours on end during the day? I have a really hard time believing it. Sorry.

1-2 parents every year, multiple occurrences

+1

Yes! So true! SAHM, WOHM, and part time working moms are all guilty, ALL lazy. Everyone knows who THAT mom is. Ew.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who works at a school learns quickly who the shitty parents are. After about the third time, no one believes you when you say your kid was fine this morning or that you didn’t give them any meds before you put them on the bus. And yes, the lice parents are the worst.

+1. We know and we despise you. We can tell when you’ve dosed your poor kid with Motrin at 7am to hide that fever. It inevitably spikes at about lunchtime. We try to call. Leave a voicemail. You finally call back 30 minutes before school ends apologizing. You were in a meeting and, of course had no idea your child was sick. We know who you are. And we think you are a shitty parent.

+2

Nailed it. The other moms know, too. Gets old quick - no matter what the age.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone who works at a school learns quickly who the shitty parents are. After about the third time, no one believes you when you say your kid was fine this morning or that you didn’t give them any meds before you put them on the bus. And yes, the lice parents are the worst.

+1. We know and we despise you. We can tell when you’ve dosed your poor kid with Motrin at 7am to hide that fever. It inevitably spikes at about lunchtime. We try to call. Leave a voicemail. You finally call back 30 minutes before school ends apologizing. You were in a meeting and, of course had no idea your child was sick. We know who you are. And we think you are a shitty parent.

How often does this happen? You’re dramatic so I’m assuming never. And I SAH and my kid missed days of this semester because I keep her home when sick!

It happens multiple times per year in my experience (Pk-2nd grade)

You are saying that multiple times per year there are different parents who dose their kids with motrin and then do not answer their phones for hours on end during the day? I have a really hard time believing it. Sorry.

But if they had Motrin and are fine, Whats the need for the parents to pick them up. They are fine. You are depriving Them of learning.

Apparently, you must have been sick at home during your own Biology class. A kid who has an active fever (even if it goes down for a few hours with Motrin) is NOT fine, and is actively spreading pathogens to all those around him/her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think I'm coming down with a cold. Trying to figure out if I should take my 8AM flight tomorrow...

Wear a mask

x100000

The worst is the parents who bought tickets to Disney, refuse to reschedule, and get the whole plane sick, plus the next plane full of people, with all the germs. So freaking selfish. Masks are 50 cents each. Buy them for you and your petri dish family -- and spare everyone else the unsuspected and unexpected grief of spending their only vacation in ten years, in bed. How gross can you be?

We were at Disney last year and on our first night we were on a bus from our hotel to Disney Springs for dinner. The bus was pretty much empty but at one of the stops a family gets on and comes and sits right next to us. The little girl was crawling around the seats and was coughing all over the place. The parents were making no effort to keep her from crawling around or from coughing essentially into people's faces. The mom started talking about their afternoon in urgent care and how she was glad a dose of Advil got the girl's fever down so she could go out to dinner. Upon hearing that I told DH we needed to move to a different part of the bus and we got up to do so. DS loudly asked why we had to move and I stated not in a not so soft voice that the girl who sat next to us was sick and we didn't want to catch her germs. The mom looked shocked and told the girl to stop crawling around the seats and to come sit by her. I didn't feel even a little bit sorry.

[Anonymous]

Everyone so quick to blame Karen and Becky.

You do realize that there are some parents who do not earn sick/vacation leave, and if they do not work, they do not get paid. And not getting paid that day or two might mean the difference in paying the rent or not, in buying medication for a family member or not, or putting meals on the table or not.

According to Mana Food Center (Montgomery County, https://www.mannafood.org/about/), there are 63,000 county residents who experience hunger and food insecurity. From the link: "Our county is one of the most affluent in the country, yet one in three public school students receives free and discounted school lunches..."

Even the schools with less than 5% FARMS have some students on FARMS. Not everyone lives the charmed life some of you seem to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone so quick to blame Karen and Becky.

You do realize that there are some parents who do not earn sick/vacation leave, and if they do not work, they do not get paid. And not getting paid that day or two might mean the difference in paying the rent or not, in buying medication for a family member or not, or putting meals on the table or not.

According to Mana Food Center (Montgomery County, https://www.mannafood.org/about/), there are 63,000 county residents who experience hunger and food insecurity. From the link: "Our county is one of the most affluent in the country, yet one in three public school students receives free and discounted school lunches..."

Even the schools with less than 5% FARMS have some students on FARMS. Not everyone lives the charmed life some of you seem to.

These are things that should be considered before choosing to bring a child into the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone so quick to blame Karen and Becky.

You do realize that there are some parents who do not earn sick/vacation leave, and if they do not work, they do not get paid. And not getting paid that day or two might mean the difference in paying the rent or not, in buying medication for a family member or not, or putting meals on the table or not.

According to Mana Food Center (Montgomery County, https://www.mannafood.org/about/), there are 63,000 county residents who experience hunger and food insecurity. From the link: "Our county is one of the most affluent in the country, yet one in three public school students receives free and discounted school lunches..."

Even the schools with less than 5% FARMS have some students on FARMS. Not everyone lives the charmed life some of you seem to.

Fine, the parents who have to choose between staying home with a sick kid and letting a sick relative die for lack of medicine get a pass. For the other 99% of the population, take care of your frickin kids!!