Must be fever free before going back to school?

[Anonymous]

My kid would sometimes run a fever at night. I'd keep him home the next day. And he'd be completely fever free all day, absolutely no symptoms at all, eating, lively, happy. I'd think great, you are going back to school tomorrow. Then he'd run a fever again at night. Could be several days of this. Drove me nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid would sometimes run a fever at night. I'd keep him home the next day. And he'd be completely fever free all day, absolutely no symptoms at all, eating, lively, happy. I'd think great, you are going back to school tomorrow. Then he'd run a fever again at night. Could be several days of this. Drove me nuts.

Yes, THIS!!! If your kid is fine and fighting something, just a little temp, they might as well be at school. I went to school all of the time with a real fever. The only way I was able to go home was if the temp was at least 102.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid in question, that is being told to go home is probably not the first sick one. They probably got it from someone else. If it's just an elevated temp and can function, they should go and see if they can get though the day.

We are creating a generation of babies.

Yeah, screw the science on this, the infectious disease protocols that are known to work, screw the immunocompromised who could end up in the hospital or dead. It's the survival of the dumbest these days.

If your kid is this sick you better home-school them.

You are a selfish idiot.

Yes and??? If everyone else is, why can't I be too???

I see I'm dealing with a lunatic. I hope you don't actually have kids.

I have kids. I hope you home-school yours.

No, but I am considerate, responsible and intelligent enough to keep them at home when they have a fever. I realize that in this world we live with many other people and we need to take care of each other. Children should be among their peers and not forced into isolation because morons like you refuse to take care of their own kids.

I do take care of my kids - when they are actually sick. A minor temp is not sick. I also don't take their temp every morning. Do you take your kids temp every morning?

A fever means they stay at home. Where is your medical degree from? Did you specialize in infectious diseases? Why do you think you know more than the medical community? Why do you think you get to make the decision for all of the other kids at school? You are the scum of the earth.

Just home school your kid. Jesus. What the hell do you do when you go out in public??? I feel bad for your kid.

You are disgusting. Can't follow one simple rule that keeps most of the kids healthy.

Hey moron, do you realize that public school is for everyone???

It's for everyone, but if your kid needs everyone home at the slight sniffle, that's a problem. I do feel for you, it can't be easy to expect everyone to tip-toe around you. Do you tell everyone in the stores to go home? That must be hard for you.

I know you think you're clever but with every post you reveal more and more how awful you truly are. A fever is not a slight sniffle. Keep your sick kids at home where they belong though I'm sure they would much rather get away from you. I hope they got their smarts from someone else's genes.

I hope your kid gets out of the bubble you've put them in. The world does not owe you anything. Everyone needs to stop their lives so that my snowflake can have everything at everyone else's expense. You're part of the problem.

Yet, in this conversation YOU are the only one deliberately infecting other children. Who gave you permission to infect others? Who made yoy god? Get effed!!!!

You are keeping my kid out of school. That's discrimination. You are making my kid feel left out. That's not nice, don't you think? School is for everyone.

You’re so unbelievably dumb. Not only is it fair that other kids don’t get infected by your selfish actions, it’s also incredibly cruel to your own children to send them to school sick.

Think about it. My kid is probably not the first kid that got sick. If my kid didn't go to the office, no one would have known. Then what??? There is probably 20% of the kids walking around in school right now that are sick with fevers. It's not doing any good to keep them out for days on end. I don't own any meds at home that magically get rid of whatever is causing this.

I see you're back with more nonsense. I never said you are the only idiot sending your sick kids to school. There are many of you. You are as cruel as you are dumb. Just hope that no one's parent at home is fighting cancer or lives with an elderly relative or has a newborn sibling. But you are the MOST important in the world and no one else matters.

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Our school says fever-free for 24-hours without use of fever-reducing medicine.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school says fever-free for 24-hours without use of fever-reducing medicine.

The majority of the schools have that rule and for a very good reason.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid in question, that is being told to go home is probably not the first sick one. They probably got it from someone else. If it's just an elevated temp and can function, they should go and see if they can get though the day.

We are creating a generation of babies.

Yeah, screw the science on this, the infectious disease protocols that are known to work, screw the immunocompromised who could end up in the hospital or dead. It's the survival of the dumbest these days.

If your kid is this sick you better home-school them.

You are a selfish idiot.

Yes and??? If everyone else is, why can't I be too???

I see I'm dealing with a lunatic. I hope you don't actually have kids.

I have kids. I hope you home-school yours.

No, but I am considerate, responsible and intelligent enough to keep them at home when they have a fever. I realize that in this world we live with many other people and we need to take care of each other. Children should be among their peers and not forced into isolation because morons like you refuse to take care of their own kids.

I do take care of my kids - when they are actually sick. A minor temp is not sick. I also don't take their temp every morning. Do you take your kids temp every morning?

A fever means they stay at home. Where is your medical degree from? Did you specialize in infectious diseases? Why do you think you know more than the medical community? Why do you think you get to make the decision for all of the other kids at school? You are the scum of the earth.

Just home school your kid. Jesus. What the hell do you do when you go out in public??? I feel bad for your kid.

You are disgusting. Can't follow one simple rule that keeps most of the kids healthy.

Hey moron, do you realize that public school is for everyone???

It's for everyone, but if your kid needs everyone home at the slight sniffle, that's a problem. I do feel for you, it can't be easy to expect everyone to tip-toe around you. Do you tell everyone in the stores to go home? That must be hard for you.

I know you think you're clever but with every post you reveal more and more how awful you truly are. A fever is not a slight sniffle. Keep your sick kids at home where they belong though I'm sure they would much rather get away from you. I hope they got their smarts from someone else's genes.

I hope your kid gets out of the bubble you've put them in. The world does not owe you anything. Everyone needs to stop their lives so that my snowflake can have everything at everyone else's expense. You're part of the problem.

Yet, in this conversation YOU are the only one deliberately infecting other children. Who gave you permission to infect others? Who made yoy god? Get effed!!!!

You are keeping my kid out of school. That's discrimination. You are making my kid feel left out. That's not nice, don't you think? School is for everyone.

You’re so unbelievably dumb. Not only is it fair that other kids don’t get infected by your selfish actions, it’s also incredibly cruel to your own children to send them to school sick.

Think about it. My kid is probably not the first kid that got sick. If my kid didn't go to the office, no one would have known. Then what??? There is probably 20% of the kids walking around in school right now that are sick with fevers. It's not doing any good to keep them out for days on end. I don't own any meds at home that magically get rid of whatever is causing this.

I see you're back with more nonsense. I never said you are the only idiot sending your sick kids to school. There are many of you. You are as cruel as you are dumb. Just hope that no one's parent at home is fighting cancer or lives with an elderly relative or has a newborn sibling. But you are the MOST important in the world and no one else matters.

Yes, thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school says fever-free for 24-hours without use of fever-reducing medicine.

The majority of the schools have that rule and for a very good reason.

It's a rule that does not make sense. I am trying to find a way around it.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school says fever-free for 24-hours without use of fever-reducing medicine.

The majority of the schools have that rule and for a very good reason.

It's a rule that does not make sense. I am trying to find a way around it.

It makes perfect sense. Go away troll.

[Anonymous]

The level of babying the shit out of everyone is over the top! It's a good thing they don't take temps at the door no one would be in school, ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The level of babying the shit out of everyone is over the top! It's a good thing they don't take temps at the door no one would be in school, ever.

We know you're trolling and sockpuppeting. Mostly because you are vile and a very shitty writer. Why did you have kids if you don't want to take care of them when they are sick? This has nothing to do with babying you idiot. It's about not infecting others with your shit.

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Anonymous wrote:And y'all are engaging with troll OP

Perhaps OP is a troll, but I see a ton of active illnesses in my classroom.

I’ve had the flu and strep in the past month and have missed 5 days of work combined. I think of my classroom as a Petri dish and I regularly keep distance and wash my hands. I still get sick and I’ve brought these illnesses home to my own children. I have an immunocompromised mother I currently can’t see because of my job.

I have a handful of very sick kids in each of my high school classes right now. They come in visibly feverish and immediately put their heads down. They don’t learn anything and the rest of the class is exposed.

So even if the OP is a troll, this is happening. Parents regularly send very sick children to school.

[Anonymous]

Keep sick kids out of school.
Keep kids with lice out of school.
Keep kids with any infection or illness, or even suspected illness, out of school.

They are not missing anything by staying a few days out of school, and it will help prevent spreading diseases to other kids.

Parents who force their kids to go to school when they are sick, are usually just lazy parents who don't want their kids around and want the public schools to babysit them.

[Anonymous]

Former clinic room aide here. I nearly always took a T as per protocol. Thermometer is consistently used for just about every sick visit. All action steps are documented electronically (so I’d note T99.8, etc.).

We aren’t prosecuting scofflaws, nor tracking via attendance (consider size of some of our elementary schools) and there’s not a cross-reference system in place. So, your fevered kid may certainly darken the doors of school the following day with a fever, diarrhea, vomiting and technically could stay in school.

In ES, it’s typically the classroom teacher who looks askance at the student (“she has a cough”) or observes “unusual” behavior (“he fell asleep in science”) or “he seems off” and will send the kid down for a T check. No temp, can go right back to class. In FCPS fever is (low grade) 100.4 and going home if rechecks every 20 minutes continue to show same reading or higher.

Idea is fever=contagious. 24 hour fever and/or diarrhea and/or vomiting free is on honor system. Some parents would calculate to the minute or hour and announce they’ll have DC back at school the following day to the exact minute - and they did.

Can’t win.

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Anonymous wrote:The level of babying the shit out of everyone is over the top! It's a good thing they don't take temps at the door no one would be in school, ever.

We know you're trolling and sockpuppeting. Mostly because you are vile and a very shitty writer. Why did you have kids if you don't want to take care of them when they are sick? This has nothing to do with babying you idiot. It's about not infecting others with your shit.

Do you believe that all of the kids in school are not sick???? Does that even make sense to you? Everyone is going in sick, not even realizing that they are sick. My kiddo said absolutely nothing to me last night or this morning before going to school about not feeling good. For this theory of "everyone go home" to work they would have to check temps at the door. Thank God they don't do that because kids are constantly sick.

You are a complete dumbass. It must be nice to be able to stay home with kids non-stop. WTF? Are you serious right now I can't tell.

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Anonymous wrote:The level of babying the shit out of everyone is over the top! It's a good thing they don't take temps at the door no one would be in school, ever.

We know you're trolling and sockpuppeting. Mostly because you are vile and a very shitty writer. Why did you have kids if you don't want to take care of them when they are sick? This has nothing to do with babying you idiot. It's about not infecting others with your shit.

Do you believe that all of the kids in school are not sick???? Does that even make sense to you? Everyone is going in sick, not even realizing that they are sick. My kiddo said absolutely nothing to me last night or this morning before going to school about not feeling good. For this theory of "everyone go home" to work they would have to check temps at the door. Thank God they don't do that because kids are constantly sick.

You are a complete dumbass. It must be nice to be able to stay home with kids non-stop. WTF? Are you serious right now I can't tell.

I’m the teacher who posted above. When you send your feverish child to school, others suffer. Period.

I missed 5 days, meaning 140 students didn’t have access to their teacher.

I can’t see my mother because I can’t take illness to her. But at least that’s better than my coworker who took the flu to her husband with cancer recently.

I have a student who was recently hospitalized because of what he caught at school.

So it’s “just a sick kid” to you, but I see the domino effect every day. When you send your sick child, you create major issues for others. Sometimes it turns serious.

But nobody can make you care about other people, I guess.