Why do parents send there child to school sick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the work flex to work from home when my kid is so sick. If my kid is active with no fever/no pain/loss of appetite with just some coughing, sneezing or runny nose, I send them to school. If they keep coughing, I take them to sed doctor and stay home till feeling a bit better. Normally, pediatrician says no medication and let it run the course. Maybe other parents do not or cannot get excused from work or get sick days from work.

You should not have had kids

Why in the world do you think it is ok to infect others?

I don't care that you have to "work" don't have kids if you can not afford to keep them home when they are not feeling well.

As a working parent as well I absolutely understand you are a terrible parent.

NP. Some kids can have the sniffles all winter. I’m not keeping my kid out of school or taking time off from work every time kid doesn’t feel 100%. Mild colds are easily pushed through.

Maybe your little snowflakes need to toughen up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the work flex to work from home when my kid is so sick. If my kid is active with no fever/no pain/loss of appetite with just some coughing, sneezing or runny nose, I send them to school. If they keep coughing, I take them to sed doctor and stay home till feeling a bit better. Normally, pediatrician says no medication and let it run the course. Maybe other parents do not or cannot get excused from work or get sick days from work.

You should not have had kids

Why in the world do you think it is ok to infect others?

I don't care that you have to "work" don't have kids if you can not afford to keep them home when they are not feeling well.

As a working parent as well I absolutely understand you are a terrible parent.

NP. Some kids can have the sniffles all winter. I’m not keeping my kid out of school or taking time off from work every time kid doesn’t feel 100%. Mild colds are easily pushed through.

Maybe your little snowflakes need to toughen up.

Agreed that there needs to be tolerance for at least some level of sniffles and coughs. I keep my kids home for any fever or if they have confirmed contagious illness like flu, Covid, strep, etc. For any stomach bug I will often keep them out even longer since those spread so easily. But mild cough/congestion with normal energy and no fever? If flu and Covid are negative (and I do test), they are going to school. It would be very silly to have healthy kids miss out on learning days over minor symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree 100% that parents should not knowingly take their kids to school sick. However, it is important to remember that kids may get dick with very little notice.

Once when I was young, I got to school and immediately threw up, not having given any prior evidence that I was sick. My mother, who was also the school librarian, immediately took me home and the principal was left to clean up the mess.

Worse, when my oldest child was in second grade she threw up after lunch and the first I heard about it was when I arrived to lead an afterschool class for my youngest and the other kids told me about it. I tracked down my daughter in her program and she confirmed that she had thrown up and said that smelling the vomit in her hair was making her feel sick. I found someone to cover for me and took her home. Apparently, they had her if she was feeling better and since my literal child felt that feeling sick after throwing up is better than actually throwing up, they sent her back to class, vomity hair and all. They justified their lack of notification by saying that sometimes kids faked getting sick to avoid school, even though my child had never once done anything like that in the three years she’d attended that school at that time. I instructed her that anytime she was sick she needed to call me and notified the school in no uncertain terms that she had been so instructed and they were not to prevent her or otherwise conceal from me information regarding either of my children’s health.

This. There have been a couple of times when we've sent our kid to school apparently fine and when I picked her up, I was like "omg why didn't the nurse contact me" because she was so visibly unwell with some kind of virus. I actually told the school to please notify me if they ever see my kid with those kinds of early onset symptoms again, because I felt terrible (for my kid, and for anyone exposed to whatever she had) that she spent at least part of the day walking around school with what was quite obviously fever and lethargy. I would never have sent my kid to school like that.

But I've had this happen too. Gone into work, felt fine, and then had something come on over the course of a few hours. Often the first sign of a virus is just fatigue, not cold symptoms, so it's easy to overlook that as just not getting enough sleep (especially for those of us who never feel like we get enough sleep!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the work flex to work from home when my kid is so sick. If my kid is active with no fever/no pain/loss of appetite with just some coughing, sneezing or runny nose, I send them to school. If they keep coughing, I take them to sed doctor and stay home till feeling a bit better. Normally, pediatrician says no medication and let it run the course. Maybe other parents do not or cannot get excused from work or get sick days from work.

You should not have had kids

Why in the world do you think it is ok to infect others?

I don't care that you have to "work" don't have kids if you can not afford to keep them home when they are not feeling well.

As a working parent as well I absolutely understand you are a terrible parent.

NP. Some kids can have the sniffles all winter. I’m not keeping my kid out of school or taking time off from work every time kid doesn’t feel 100%. Mild colds are easily pushed through.

Maybe your little snowflakes need to toughen up.

DP and I totally agree -- the PP's approach sounds exactly right to me.

When I was a younger parent (and this was right after schools reopened post-Covid) I was ultra cautious and would keep my kid home at the tiniest sign of illness. Would try to keep her home until cold symptoms were totally gone, that kind of thing.

Finally a fellow parent in K who has older kids told me it's just not realistic -- you wind up keeping your kid home for weeks for a mild virus that most of the class has already had anyway, because they have a lingering cough or something. Obviously anything more than a cough or some sniffles and you keep them home, but the idea that your kids are never going to have a runny nose or a cough at school is really unrealistic. It's okay.

I am convinced the only parents who can afford to be this militant about it have really young kids and just don't realize. Keep them home for fevers, obviously any vomiting, and anything that is going to make them tired or unable to pay attention or participate fully in school. But runny noses and coughs are fine. That's just life.

[Anonymous]

its laziness and disregard for other's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So they learn the difference between "there" and "their" I suspect.

Here his the GrAMmAR police. Loser.

[Anonymous]

No child care, no sick leave or other leave to use, need to work and get paid to put food on the table and pay the electric bill.

Not everyone is well off. Be kind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we make schools mask between Thanksgiving and Christmas? I think so many kids caught things over Thanksgiving, then it circulated and the ENTIRE school was sick over Christmas break. I don't think there was a family that wasn't hit. We still haven't celebrated with extended family since we were too sick.

Um, no. What do you think this is, January 2022? Respiratory illness is part of life with young kids, get over it.

[Anonymous]

*their*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we make schools mask between Thanksgiving and Christmas? I think so many kids caught things over Thanksgiving, then it circulated and the ENTIRE school was sick over Christmas break. I don't think there was a family that wasn't hit. We still haven't celebrated with extended family since we were too sick.

Um, no. What do you think this is, January 2022? Respiratory illness is part of life with young kids, get over it.

lol. Thinking that flimsy masks prevent illness spread in kids is part of the problem. The parents OP mentions seem to think their kid can go to school sick as long as they have a mask. But as OP points out, they do not work.

[Anonymous]

Why do adults refuse to use there, they’re and their correctly?

OP can you enlighten us? Is it a learning disability, brain tumor or do you simply enjoy doubling down on stupidity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we make schools mask between Thanksgiving and Christmas? I think so many kids caught things over Thanksgiving, then it circulated and the ENTIRE school was sick over Christmas break. I don't think there was a family that wasn't hit. We still haven't celebrated with extended family since we were too sick.

Um, no. What do you think this is, January 2022? Respiratory illness is part of life with young kids, get over it.

lol. Thinking that flimsy masks prevent illness spread in kids is part of the problem. The parents OP mentions seem to think their kid can go to school sick as long as they have a mask. But as OP points out, they do not work.

Actually, masks can be helpful to reduce the spread of many illnesses, but are more effective when worn by the person who is sick to limit the spread of germs than when worn by a healthy person to avoid being sick. It’s the same principle as covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze. Of course, masks only work when worn correctly, which many kids won’t, and taking them off for lunch defeats the purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So they learn the difference between "there" and "their" I suspect.

Here his the GrAMmAR police. Loser.

Stfu boo

[Anonymous]

Some people have winter allergies believe it or not. Chimney smoke, seasonal food aromas, rotting leaves, and other stuff that is more prevalent in winter can trigger some. Not all coughing and sneezing is due to a contagious virus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Why do adults refuse to use there, they’re and their correctly?

OP can you enlighten us? Is it a learning disability, brain tumor or do you simply enjoy doubling down on stupidity?

Why do adults refuse to use commas correctly?