Fed up with parents who send sick kids to school

[Anonymous]

Y'all are nasty as hell. No one wants to be around your sick kid all day.

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of drama queens on this thread. You can send your kid to school if they have the sniffles or if medicine makes them feel better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of drama queens on this thread. You can send your kid to school if they have the sniffles or if medicine makes them feel better.

What do you mean by “if medicine makes them feel better”? If you give your kid meds to bring down their fever, they might be happy but they’re making everyone else around them sick. Fever = contagious! even when medicated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of drama queens on this thread. You can send your kid to school if they have the sniffles or if medicine makes them feel better.

What do you mean by “if medicine makes them feel better”? If you give your kid meds to bring down their fever, they might be happy but they’re making everyone else around them sick. Fever = contagious! even when medicated.

Having a fever doesn’t mean you’re contagious, drama queen.

[Anonymous]

I'm curious if the teachers on here have kids and what you do with your own children. Do you stay home with them if they have a cold?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of drama queens on this thread. You can send your kid to school if they have the sniffles or if medicine makes them feel better.

What do you mean by “if medicine makes them feel better”? If you give your kid meds to bring down their fever, they might be happy but they’re making everyone else around them sick. Fever = contagious! even when medicated.

Having a fever doesn’t mean you’re contagious, drama queen.

No matter the illness, keep your child home if she has a fever. It may seem harmless enough, but assume any fever is a symptom of a contagious condition. Viruses that cause fevers are contagious as long as the fever is above a 100.4 degrees F.

https://www.parents.com/health/cold-flu/cold/is-my-child-contagious/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pro tip: take your DC temp before sending to school. Is it over 100? Keep kid home.

Also, I've posted before but at about 10:30, your DC will start to feel "hot" or "sick" or "weird" again. DC will describe that "the medicine Mom gave me has worn off." Yeah, no kidding. But the important thing is, you got to send your kid to daycare and school and have already gotten in a 1/2 day.

Also love when a parent tells me, "he wasn't sick this morning!" Ok, but now he has a 102 fever.

If it hits 105, we call 911. Just come get your kid.

[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.

Yeah so they just have to include no PTO in their pay package or are they undocumented.

[Anonymous]

If you decide to have and/or keep your kids, you are now committing to at least 19 years of caring for them. Get over yourself and get a back up person to pick up or take care of your kid.