Please stop sending sick kids to school!

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

No, this entire thread is not about a runny nose. The title clearly states “sick child.”
Btw, you’re the one who said you would lose your home and no food if you took a day off. Yet, you put other parents in the same predicament.

Ha, what? Sorry, SAHM Karen, no one said that. You understand that working people can’t take leave from work constantly without potentially losing their job? And that a job provides money, that people use for their mortgages and food and other necessities, yes? So working parents can’t take off work every time their kid has a little sniffle because that would be weeks of leave, not a single day.

Your level of critical thinking is helping me understand how this thread has gone on for so many pages.

DP. The “Karen” name-calling thing does not help you. What a way to put down women.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

Just ignore the crazies and let this dumb thread die. No one is going to change their actions either way based on OP's or anyone else's rant here.

I know, you’re right. I have trouble not responding to all the morons on DCUM. Stepping away from the thread now

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Anonymous wrote:I see kids at school with runny noses all winter. There is sick and then there is the runny nose that just sticks around for weeks despite the child feeling perfectly fine.

I think we can all agree that you should keep your kid home if they feel miserable, exhausted, have a fever, etc. But keeping your child home every time their nose runs? There is no sense in doing that, no one does that, and if it frightens you you should homeschool.

Teacher again. Clearly we can’t agree. Seriously, there are a good number of parents who send very sick kids in. I can handle minor sniffles. I can’t handle slumped-over, feverish kids.

To the parents on this thread who wouldn’t dream of sending miserable kids in: THANK YOU!
To the unfortunately high number of parents who are apparently okay with adding additional suffering on your kids (and subsequently sharing those germs with others): you negatively impact the classroom in ways you probably can’t imagine.

Are you just trying to pick a fight? Because PP literally agreed with you as to when you shouldn’t send kids to school.

The point is there are plenty of people (including on this thread) who feel justified to send in very sick kids. Maybe not the PP, but plenty of others. Clearly there is no agreement.

Only if you consider a runny nose as “very sick.”

Sure. Deny the experience of teachers who have to deal with this regularly in the classroom.

- Teacher who sent three students home just this week alone (all with fevers)

Preschool teacher here: you do realize that children are often most contagious BEFORE they start experiencing symptoms, right? And with some illnesses (I’m looking at you, HFM) the child sheds the virus for WEEKS after symptoms go away. I know some of us are bitter about not being able to work from home but come on now, be reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

No, this entire thread is not about a runny nose. The title clearly states “sick child.”
Btw, you’re the one who said you would lose your home and no food if you took a day off. Yet, you put other parents in the same predicament.

Ha, what? Sorry, SAHM Karen, no one said that. You understand that working people can’t take leave from work constantly without potentially losing their job? And that a job provides money, that people use for their mortgages and food and other necessities, yes? So working parents can’t take off work every time their kid has a little sniffle because that would be weeks of leave, not a single day.

Your level of critical thinking is helping me understand how this thread has gone on for so many pages.

You understand that all parents-working or otherwise have to stay home when children are sick? It’s called parenting, you didn’t know that’s part of it?
If you can’t stay home, have a plan to have someone who can.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

Just ignore the crazies and let this dumb thread die. No one is going to change their actions either way based on OP's or anyone else's rant here.

I know, you’re right. I have trouble not responding to all the morons on DCUM. Stepping away from the thread now

Good, one less moron! Bye Felicia!

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Anonymous wrote:I see kids at school with runny noses all winter. There is sick and then there is the runny nose that just sticks around for weeks despite the child feeling perfectly fine.

I think we can all agree that you should keep your kid home if they feel miserable, exhausted, have a fever, etc. But keeping your child home every time their nose runs? There is no sense in doing that, no one does that, and if it frightens you you should homeschool.

Teacher again. Clearly we can’t agree. Seriously, there are a good number of parents who send very sick kids in. I can handle minor sniffles. I can’t handle slumped-over, feverish kids.

To the parents on this thread who wouldn’t dream of sending miserable kids in: THANK YOU!
To the unfortunately high number of parents who are apparently okay with adding additional suffering on your kids (and subsequently sharing those germs with others): you negatively impact the classroom in ways you probably can’t imagine.

Are you just trying to pick a fight? Because PP literally agreed with you as to when you shouldn’t send kids to school.

The point is there are plenty of people (including on this thread) who feel justified to send in very sick kids. Maybe not the PP, but plenty of others. Clearly there is no agreement.

Only if you consider a runny nose as “very sick.”

Sure. Deny the experience of teachers who have to deal with this regularly in the classroom.

- Teacher who sent three students home just this week alone (all with fevers)

Preschool teacher here: you do realize that children are often most contagious BEFORE they start experiencing symptoms, right? And with some illnesses (I’m looking at you, HFM) the child sheds the virus for WEEKS after symptoms go away. I know some of us are bitter about not being able to work from home but come on now, be reasonable.

So you’re not a doctor.

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Anonymous wrote:I see kids at school with runny noses all winter. There is sick and then there is the runny nose that just sticks around for weeks despite the child feeling perfectly fine.

I think we can all agree that you should keep your kid home if they feel miserable, exhausted, have a fever, etc. But keeping your child home every time their nose runs? There is no sense in doing that, no one does that, and if it frightens you you should homeschool.

Teacher again. Clearly we can’t agree. Seriously, there are a good number of parents who send very sick kids in. I can handle minor sniffles. I can’t handle slumped-over, feverish kids.

To the parents on this thread who wouldn’t dream of sending miserable kids in: THANK YOU!
To the unfortunately high number of parents who are apparently okay with adding additional suffering on your kids (and subsequently sharing those germs with others): you negatively impact the classroom in ways you probably can’t imagine.

Are you just trying to pick a fight? Because PP literally agreed with you as to when you shouldn’t send kids to school.

The point is there are plenty of people (including on this thread) who feel justified to send in very sick kids. Maybe not the PP, but plenty of others. Clearly there is no agreement.

Only if you consider a runny nose as “very sick.”

Sure. Deny the experience of teachers who have to deal with this regularly in the classroom.

- Teacher who sent three students home just this week alone (all with fevers)

Preschool teacher here: you do realize that children are often most contagious BEFORE they start experiencing symptoms, right? And with some illnesses (I’m looking at you, HFM) the child sheds the virus for WEEKS after symptoms go away. I know some of us are bitter about not being able to work from home but come on now, be reasonable.

Therefore, when they are symptomatic, they should stay at school? Okay you.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

No, this entire thread is not about a runny nose. The title clearly states “sick child.”
Btw, you’re the one who said you would lose your home and no food if you took a day off. Yet, you put other parents in the same predicament.

Ha, what? Sorry, SAHM Karen, no one said that. You understand that working people can’t take leave from work constantly without potentially losing their job? And that a job provides money, that people use for their mortgages and food and other necessities, yes? So working parents can’t take off work every time their kid has a little sniffle because that would be weeks of leave, not a single day.

Your level of critical thinking is helping me understand how this thread has gone on for so many pages.

DP. The “Karen” name-calling thing does not help you. What a way to put down women.

NP
It rightfully puts down obnoxious and entitled women.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

No, this entire thread is not about a runny nose. The title clearly states “sick child.”
Btw, you’re the one who said you would lose your home and no food if you took a day off. Yet, you put other parents in the same predicament.

Ha, what? Sorry, SAHM Karen, no one said that. You understand that working people can’t take leave from work constantly without potentially losing their job? And that a job provides money, that people use for their mortgages and food and other necessities, yes? So working parents can’t take off work every time their kid has a little sniffle because that would be weeks of leave, not a single day.

Your level of critical thinking is helping me understand how this thread has gone on for so many pages.

DP. The “Karen” name-calling thing does not help you. What a way to put down women.

NP
It rightfully puts down obnoxious and entitled women.

No, it does not and that would be you.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

No, this entire thread is not about a runny nose. The title clearly states “sick child.”
Btw, you’re the one who said you would lose your home and no food if you took a day off. Yet, you put other parents in the same predicament.

Ha, what? Sorry, SAHM Karen, no one said that. You understand that working people can’t take leave from work constantly without potentially losing their job? And that a job provides money, that people use for their mortgages and food and other necessities, yes? So working parents can’t take off work every time their kid has a little sniffle because that would be weeks of leave, not a single day.

Your level of critical thinking is helping me understand how this thread has gone on for so many pages.

DP. The “Karen” name-calling thing does not help you. What a way to put down women.

NP
It rightfully puts down obnoxious and entitled women.

DP. So you’re okay with being called that then, obnoxious and entitled woman.

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Anonymous wrote:I see kids at school with runny noses all winter. There is sick and then there is the runny nose that just sticks around for weeks despite the child feeling perfectly fine.

I think we can all agree that you should keep your kid home if they feel miserable, exhausted, have a fever, etc. But keeping your child home every time their nose runs? There is no sense in doing that, no one does that, and if it frightens you you should homeschool.

Teacher again. Clearly we can’t agree. Seriously, there are a good number of parents who send very sick kids in. I can handle minor sniffles. I can’t handle slumped-over, feverish kids.

To the parents on this thread who wouldn’t dream of sending miserable kids in: THANK YOU!
To the unfortunately high number of parents who are apparently okay with adding additional suffering on your kids (and subsequently sharing those germs with others): you negatively impact the classroom in ways you probably can’t imagine.

Are you just trying to pick a fight? Because PP literally agreed with you as to when you shouldn’t send kids to school.

The point is there are plenty of people (including on this thread) who feel justified to send in very sick kids. Maybe not the PP, but plenty of others. Clearly there is no agreement.

Only if you consider a runny nose as “very sick.”

Sure. Deny the experience of teachers who have to deal with this regularly in the classroom.

- Teacher who sent three students home just this week alone (all with fevers)

Preschool teacher here: you do realize that children are often most contagious BEFORE they start experiencing symptoms, right? And with some illnesses (I’m looking at you, HFM) the child sheds the virus for WEEKS after symptoms go away. I know some of us are bitter about not being able to work from home but come on now, be reasonable.

I’m the teacher from above.

I want to make sure I understand. I am being unreasonable when I send a student with a 102 fever home? I should let them stay in class because it’s likely they already spread their germs?

There are so many things wrong with your statement.
- There’s a difference between UNKNOWINGLY spreading germs before symptoms kick in and KNOWINGLY doing it on symptomatic days.
- Kids shouldn’t have to needlessly suffer. One of the kids I sent home was crying because her mom “didn’t care” that she was miserable. Sure enough, mom seemed quite upset that I made her get her 102 fevered child. I felt so bad for that student.
- It is my job as a teacher to provide as safe and comfortable of an environment as possible for my students. That’s hard to do when I have sick kids sleeping at their desks. I also have to care for the other 28 students.

These aren’t sniffy noses. I can look the other way about those. That’s being “reasonable.” What you are suggesting is ridiculous.

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I’m a teacher who is home sick right now. I am 100% certain I got this from one of my classes, specifically from two kids who were too miserable to take their heads off their desks. I’ll admit I am very annoyed at their parents, who should have let those poor kids stay home. They were miserable, and here I am four days later, also miserable.

It’s selfish. You can say that getting sick is just part of my job, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is selfish to send your very sick children to school.

oh please you were going to get sick anyway at some point. It happens. Definitely a lot more things to stress over than this.

- a teacher

You are not a teacher.

Yes I am for over 15 years, which is why I would never sit at home and obsess over which exact kid and parents got me sick. Theres enough crap going on at school to stress over, I would not add that to my list. We get sick every year. - multiple times a year. And you probably have come to school sick with a tylenol sinus to tide you over because its too hard/stressful to get a sub. We probably get kids sick outselves when we do that.

So you willingly get kids sick? You’re making yourself look really bad.

She is being honest. If you think every child and teacher should not come into school at the very hint of a sniffle then you have unrealistic expectations for the school system. And I doubt you would want your kids teacher calling in sick constantly, either. It’s not as though they get loads of paid sick time where they can sit at home until they feel their best.

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Anonymous wrote:I see kids at school with runny noses all winter. There is sick and then there is the runny nose that just sticks around for weeks despite the child feeling perfectly fine.

I think we can all agree that you should keep your kid home if they feel miserable, exhausted, have a fever, etc. But keeping your child home every time their nose runs? There is no sense in doing that, no one does that, and if it frightens you you should homeschool.

Teacher again. Clearly we can’t agree. Seriously, there are a good number of parents who send very sick kids in. I can handle minor sniffles. I can’t handle slumped-over, feverish kids.

To the parents on this thread who wouldn’t dream of sending miserable kids in: THANK YOU!
To the unfortunately high number of parents who are apparently okay with adding additional suffering on your kids (and subsequently sharing those germs with others): you negatively impact the classroom in ways you probably can’t imagine.

Are you just trying to pick a fight? Because PP literally agreed with you as to when you shouldn’t send kids to school.

The point is there are plenty of people (including on this thread) who feel justified to send in very sick kids. Maybe not the PP, but plenty of others. Clearly there is no agreement.

Only if you consider a runny nose as “very sick.”

Sure. Deny the experience of teachers who have to deal with this regularly in the classroom.

- Teacher who sent three students home just this week alone (all with fevers)

Preschool teacher here: you do realize that children are often most contagious BEFORE they start experiencing symptoms, right? And with some illnesses (I’m looking at you, HFM) the child sheds the virus for WEEKS after symptoms go away. I know some of us are bitter about not being able to work from home but come on now, be reasonable.

Therefore, when they are symptomatic, they should stay at school? Okay you.

The issue parents actually deal with that the "it's called being a parent!" brigade has not once addressed is WHEN to send the kid back. Literally no one has argued that we should send kids with fevers to school. I believe it happens, and I'm sorry, but no one in this thread has said they would do that. The question is when the kid returns after the fever. And we're saying that waiting 1-2 weeks for every last symptom to resolve when the kid is feeling better is not reasonable. Do you all who are parenting experts make your kid miss a full week or two every time if the cough or runny nose lingers? Seriously? I don't know anyone IRL, SAHP or WOHP, who does that.

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Anonymous wrote:Sending a kid with a fever, covid, flu, strep, HFM, yeah that’s a dick move.

Runny nose or mild cough? Post nasal drip? They can go to school.

+1. This is what the rule at our school is. I think it’s very reasonable.

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I don't send my kids when they are sick. However, I'm a SAHM. It's a privilege