Please stop sending sick kids to school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

NP here. While I sympathize with you, you are being unreasonable. If you or your child gets sick that often and you have a problem, then you need to deal with it. You don't get to police other families that are following school policies. School policies only cover certain ailments and not running noses or colds. My suggestion is that you and your child carry medical grade surgical masks. If a child in your vicinity has a cold or sniffly nose, put on the mask. You are responsible for your own health and safety, not others.

You can always choose to go to a private school with more strict protocols for colds and sick children. But, if you are going to a public school, you deal and cope with the problems that other families using the same school have as long as they are following school policy, which they are.

[Anonymous]

It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

Please stop with the dramatics and shaming. 🙄 there is a spectrum for being sick — everyone here has admitted that they will keep their kids home for fever, vomiting, lethargy, and generally being off. What we’re arguing about are runny noses or coughs, which many kids can have and still operate just fine. I say this as my own kid has his a runny nose and continues to bounce off the walls laughing and smiling. If I tried to cuddle him and make him rest, he’d look at me like I’m crazy, squirm his way out and go back to playing.

If you want to keep your child home at any sign of mucus, have at it…blessed be thy fruit. But please don’t shame those of us who take a more measured approach either by choice or by necessity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

NP here. While I sympathize with you, you are being unreasonable. If you or your child gets sick that often and you have a problem, then you need to deal with it. You don't get to police other families that are following school policies. School policies only cover certain ailments and not running noses or colds. My suggestion is that you and your child carry medical grade surgical masks. If a child in your vicinity has a cold or sniffly nose, put on the mask. You are responsible for your own health and safety, not others.

You can always choose to go to a private school with more strict protocols for colds and sick children. But, if you are going to a public school, you deal and cope with the problems that other families using the same school have as long as they are following school policy, which they are.

Kids get sick because selfish parents like you send yours in sick and infect everyone. Decent people keep their kids home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

Please stop with the dramatics and shaming. 🙄 there is a spectrum for being sick — everyone here has admitted that they will keep their kids home for fever, vomiting, lethargy, and generally being off. What we’re arguing about are runny noses or coughs, which many kids can have and still operate just fine. I say this as my own kid has his a runny nose and continues to bounce off the walls laughing and smiling. If I tried to cuddle him and make him rest, he’d look at me like I’m crazy, squirm his way out and go back to playing.

If you want to keep your child home at any sign of mucus, have at it…blessed be thy fruit. But please don’t shame those of us who take a more measured approach either by choice or by necessity

Teachers should not have to deal with runny noses and coughing because you are too lazy to care for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

That is one random comparison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

Tell you don't have kids and a job without telling me you don't have kids and a job.

NP, but lots of people have kids and a job and still manage to keep their kids home when they are sick! Some people plan their careers in a way so that they be there for their kids when they need them.

My kids don’t need me when they have a runny nose or congestion. If they feel like crap then yes, we’ll stay home. Anyway, the more you’re exposed to illness as an infant, toddler or preschooler, the less likely you are to get I’ll and miss days in elementary school. So you’re welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

Please stop with the dramatics and shaming. 🙄 there is a spectrum for being sick — everyone here has admitted that they will keep their kids home for fever, vomiting, lethargy, and generally being off. What we’re arguing about are runny noses or coughs, which many kids can have and still operate just fine. I say this as my own kid has his a runny nose and continues to bounce off the walls laughing and smiling. If I tried to cuddle him and make him rest, he’d look at me like I’m crazy, squirm his way out and go back to playing.

If you want to keep your child home at any sign of mucus, have at it…blessed be thy fruit. But please don’t shame those of us who take a more measured approach either by choice or by necessity

Teachers should not have to deal with runny noses and coughing because you are too lazy to care for your kids.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, so sorry to hear about your experience. I went through the same when my kids were in school. People would obviously dose their kids with tylenol and pretend that they don't have a fever. Halfway between the school day, their fever and misery would rise. Poor kids. Of course, these parents would not give a damn if they were making other kids sick.

Here is the ironic part. After several days of coming to school with a cold, cough and tylenol suppressed fever, these poor children would fall really sick with a more severe illness like pneumonia because they never actually got a chance to rest and recuperate. So the quick fix of sending the kid with sniffles to school still ended up with the kids being even more sick and missing school.

As for the learning loss, the kids who are sent to school when they are sick are not really getting the care, nurturing or the academic support at home to excel at school. These kids unfortunately come from homes where the parents are checked out and overwhelmed.

To make sure that my kids did not fall ill or missed learning, I did a bunch of stuff that was very much in line with the COVID protocols. Here is what I was doing when my kids were in school -
a) Get the flu vaccine 2 weeks before school opens for the entire family. IME, kids started falling sick in Sept-Oct itself. We were looking for protection from flu from Sept- Jan. Getting the vaccine early gave us that.
b) Multi-vitamin, vitamin c - every day
c) Made sure that the kids were doing salt gargles twice a day, and scraping their tongue when brushing their teeth. My kids very rarely got a stomach bug. Their illness usually started with a cold and cough. Salt gargles were effective in flushing out germs.
d) Washing hands and never touching their face was drilled into my kids.
e) We are a no shoes indoors household. My kids also changed their school clothes as soon as they reached home to limit germs.
f) We made sure that our kids did not take the school bus and instead we dropped and picked them up ourselves. While this added to our work day, school bus are even worse than a classroom. Kids are very sick and in very close contact with each other.
g) Early intervention. If my kids showed any sign of being down with tiredness, sniffles, I kept them at home and made sure that got a lot of rest, chicken soup, home remedies (ginger, turmeric and honey tea for example), lots of salt gargle, nasal spray etc. Usually, they would be ok in a day or two.
h) Good hygine at home, having a clean house, changing tooth brushes often, being current with all well visits and vaccinations etc.
i) We made sure by sending an email to all teachers that they were aware if my kid was at home so that they could give the assignments through email and give more time to my kid to make up tests and assignments. My kids were straight A kids and they never saw their grades go down because of being ill.
j) During the summer break, we made sure that their tutors covered at least a quarter's worth of their instruction, JIC they fell sick.

Masks work. If your kids fall ill, you all need to mask at home to not get sick yourself. Get in the habit of wearing masks for regular colds and coughs like the Japanese.

By the end I couldn't tell if this post was real or satire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

Please stop with the dramatics and shaming. 🙄 there is a spectrum for being sick — everyone here has admitted that they will keep their kids home for fever, vomiting, lethargy, and generally being off. What we’re arguing about are runny noses or coughs, which many kids can have and still operate just fine. I say this as my own kid has his a runny nose and continues to bounce off the walls laughing and smiling. If I tried to cuddle him and make him rest, he’d look at me like I’m crazy, squirm his way out and go back to playing.

If you want to keep your child home at any sign of mucus, have at it…blessed be thy fruit. But please don’t shame those of us who take a more measured approach either by choice or by necessity

Please stop assuming every post is directed at YOU. Sick and symptomatic are not the same thing. Kids at daycare and school when they don’t feel good is sad.

[Anonymous]

I agree with OP it's so inconsiderate to send sick kids to school to get teachers and other kids sick. Be responsible and keep your kids home if they are sick with a runny nose and coughing. Your child will feel better and recover quicker with rest at home. The absolute very least you could do is teach your child to cover that mouth when they cough. Preschool age children can cover that mouths. Teach them.

One bonus to wearing masks last year was the prevention of illness. When the masks came off in the spring the illnesses started again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, we can’t afford to miss more school when the kids are simply congested.

Yes, you can and its called parenting.

Tell you don't have kids and a job without telling me you don't have kids and a job.

NP, but lots of people have kids and a job and still manage to keep their kids home when they are sick! Some people plan their careers in a way so that they be there for their kids when they need them.

My kids don’t need me when they have a runny nose or congestion. If they feel like crap then yes, we’ll stay home. Anyway, the more you’re exposed to illness as an infant, toddler or preschooler, the less likely you are to get I’ll and miss days in elementary school. So you’re welcome.

Absolutely not true selfish one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

Please stop with the dramatics and shaming. 🙄 there is a spectrum for being sick — everyone here has admitted that they will keep their kids home for fever, vomiting, lethargy, and generally being off. What we’re arguing about are runny noses or coughs, which many kids can have and still operate just fine. I say this as my own kid has his a runny nose and continues to bounce off the walls laughing and smiling. If I tried to cuddle him and make him rest, he’d look at me like I’m crazy, squirm his way out and go back to playing.

If you want to keep your child home at any sign of mucus, have at it…blessed be thy fruit. But please don’t shame those of us who take a more measured approach either by choice or by necessity

Teachers should not have to deal with runny noses and coughing because you are too lazy to care for your kids.

Their classmates shouldn’t, either. Not only are the sick students spreading it around the room, but they are also very distracting. The entire class is subjected to sniffing, coughing, sneezing, and (more often than you would think) groans. The students around the sick kid spend class looking very uncomfortable. Students are too kind to request desk changes, so what they tend to do is rotate through the bathroom for a break from the germ cloud.

I can open windows and my door to increase airflow on behalf of those neighboring kids, but that’s about all I can do.

Parents may also think the kid is well enough to go to school, but that is often not the case. The sick kids slump on their desks until I have to pause class to send them to the nurse. Just last week I had a girl crying about how she was miserable but her mom told her to “suck it up.” I got somebody to cover my class so I could walk her to the nurse, where she stayed for the rest of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

Please stop with the dramatics and shaming. 🙄 there is a spectrum for being sick — everyone here has admitted that they will keep their kids home for fever, vomiting, lethargy, and generally being off. What we’re arguing about are runny noses or coughs, which many kids can have and still operate just fine. I say this as my own kid has his a runny nose and continues to bounce off the walls laughing and smiling. If I tried to cuddle him and make him rest, he’d look at me like I’m crazy, squirm his way out and go back to playing.

If you want to keep your child home at any sign of mucus, have at it…blessed be thy fruit. But please don’t shame those of us who take a more measured approach either by choice or by necessity

Teachers should not have to deal with runny noses and coughing because you are too lazy to care for your kids.

Their classmates shouldn’t, either. Not only are the sick students spreading it around the room, but they are also very distracting. The entire class is subjected to sniffing, coughing, sneezing, and (more often than you would think) groans. The students around the sick kid spend class looking very uncomfortable. Students are too kind to request desk changes, so what they tend to do is rotate through the bathroom for a break from the germ cloud.

I can open windows and my door to increase airflow on behalf of those neighboring kids, but that’s about all I can do.

Parents may also think the kid is well enough to go to school, but that is often not the case. The sick kids slump on their desks until I have to pause class to send them to the nurse. Just last week I had a girl crying about how she was miserable but her mom told her to “suck it up.” I got somebody to cover my class so I could walk her to the nurse, where she stayed for the rest of the day.

That was nice of you. Why was the girl at the nurse’s office all day? Did nobody come pick her up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is so sad that so many little kids cant even have the simple gift of staying home and resting when they are sick. The irony is that these same parents are the ones who are incensed when a teacher accidentally calls them by the wrong name.

That is one random comparison.

I think it’s a jab at minorities. There was a post recently from a poster who is BIPOC asking whether consistently being called the wrong name by a teacher is a micro aggression.