Is it normal for the daycare to ask parents to take their kid home?

[Anonymous]

I'm the PP and wanted to add that at the new daycare it is clear that whenever they call me to pick up my son he is actually sick and has a fever and this happens only about 2-3 times a month. They actually consider themselves very strict and each time he got sent home from this other daycare his temperature was just 99.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It is protocol for teachers to contact the parents when a baby's temperature hits 100. But, I have never heard of a daycare professional having a parent pick up a child for being fussy. Uh, handling a fussy child is a fundamental part of being a caregiver, is it not?

Yes, but a fussy child, especially one who is usually cheerful, can be a sign that something is wrong and a clue to take the temperature or otherwise investigate.

[Anonymous]

To the parent that posted this:

What if there was really something wrong andno one called you? This nothing could hv turned into something! Think about that, and if your not happy there, leave!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate to say it, but I think sometimes daycare workers look for any reason to send a child home if the child is being difficult (or the teacher is having a bad day). While I won't go as far to suggest a teacher is making up a temperature reading, there have been one or two times when I was asked to pick up my son because he had a fever - but when I got to him he was fine.

If they do get a fever reading, they have to send the child home. But I would watch out for this becoming a habitual problem (assuming the child isn't really sick). Although it could be they just noted your child's fussiness as another sign he/she may be sick - not as the real reason they wanted to send him/her home.

This does not happen in our daycare center. The center policy is that once a child's parent has been called to pick up a child, the child is isolated from the other children. That means that they have to have a teacher assigned to watch the child until the parent comes to pick them up. It can disrupt the routine of a classroom if there is a classroom that can maintain state ratios with one of the teachers leaving. If none of the teachers are free, then either the director or assistant director will have to monitor the child. It's not unusual for the child to be placed in the main office to await the parent coming to pick up the child. In one case, i was in a meeting and did not get the message for an hour, then it took me about 15-20 minutes to get out of the office and 10 minutes to get there, so it was just under and hour and a half that they had to isolate him. It was disruptive on their day to have to deal with this and I don't think they'll make this up. I agree with the other parents that if you have a daycare that makes this type of thing up, that you need to find another daycare because that's just irresponsible.