Please stop sending sick kids to school!

[Anonymous]

Need Flash. Coughing and runny noses are symptoms of covid.

[Anonymous]

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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.

And they don’t need to. For mild symptoms like those, the proper reaction is to ignore them. You can't possibly think is it rational or practical for everyone to to keep themselves and their kids home whenever someone has a mild cough and/or runny nose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Need Flash. Coughing and runny noses are symptoms of covid.

They’re also symptoms of: allergies, sleeping poorly, thunderstorms, having a meltdown about your banana being peeled wrong for breakfast, running around in the cold, etc.

My rule is: if I have to wipe noses more than 2-3 times before we head out, that’s too much extra work for the daycare teachers to manage and the kid stays home. I’m lucky my kids have hardy immune systems so we’re rarely home more than a couple days a month, which means my entire PTO is sick leave and scheduled daycare closures and I still spend a lot of time making up hours in the middle of the night.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Sounds like you’re projecting. Kids are around runny noses and coughs all winter. That blends into the background noise. Anyone who finds that significantly distracting is always going to find distractions in a classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I keep my kids home for fever, vomiting, unexplained rash, diarrhea, Covid, Strep, and flu. I am not keeping my kid home for congestion or a runny nose.

If your family gets sick for 7-10 days and misses
work due to a cold or if your whole family ends up on meds for a routine illness, perhaps you should talk to your Dr. about your immune system. That’s not normal.

Preach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Need Flash. Coughing and runny noses are symptoms of covid.

News flash. The pandemic is over according to Biden!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

I am not a stay at home parent, but my work schedule isn’t the schools problem. I had to keep my son home today because he has a cold a week after school started. Don’t be an a-hole and send an unwell child to school.

That said, many kids are probably contagious before they develop symptoms and idk what the answer is. Additionally, kids are mucusy forever with colds. How long should they really be out of school for? A day or two? It’s not like they can work remotely once they’re feeling better but still on the mend.

Similarly, that the OP and her family have chronic health issues isn’t the school’s problem either. Nor is it the problem of other parents and children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Need Flash. Coughing and runny noses are symptoms of covid.

News flash. Covid will be around forever. Literally forever! You’re not gonna exclude kids every single time for having the sniffles or use Covid as an excuse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

I am not a stay at home parent, but my work schedule isn’t the schools problem. I had to keep my son home today because he has a cold a week after school started. Don’t be an a-hole and send an unwell child to school.

That said, many kids are probably contagious before they develop symptoms and idk what the answer is. Additionally, kids are mucusy forever with colds. How long should they really be out of school for? A day or two? It’s not like they can work remotely once they’re feeling better but still on the mend.

Similarly, that the OP and her family have chronic health issues isn’t the school’s problem either. Nor is it the problem of other parents and children.

Yes, that’s true. But people still shouldn’t send their sick kids to school. They should only be sent back once they’re starting to feel better and symptoms are improving. This isn’t to protect hyper-compromised people, it’s just common decency.

[Anonymous]

There's a difference between some sniffles from allergies and thick green mucus constantly running down a child's face that they stick thier hands into and spread germs all over the classroom.

If you're sending you child to school with the thick green mucus and expecting the teacher to wipe your child's nose SHAME ON YOU. Why are you knowingly exposing your child's teacher and peers to illness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a difference between some sniffles from allergies and thick green mucus constantly running down a child's face that they stick thier hands into and spread germs all over the classroom.

If you're sending you child to school with the thick green mucus and expecting the teacher to wipe your child's nose SHAME ON YOU. Why are you knowingly exposing your child's teacher and peers to illness.

I'm one of the PP who sends my kid with sniffles/cough and I think the color is less important than whether the kid needs to my constantly attended to. I don't send my kid if I'm having to constantly wipe her nose over breakfast; no daycare worker should have to deal with that on top of their normal job and she'd be getting germs EVERYWHERE. If she coughed three times overnight and grabbed a tissue to blow her own nose while getting dressed, I'll send her; sometimes that's just because of a change in the humidity.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Sounds like you’re projecting. Kids are around runny noses and coughs all winter. That blends into the background noise. Anyone who finds that significantly distracting is always going to find distractions in a classroom.

They’re kids. Of course they are easily distracted. There’s no projecting going on here, at all.

Incidentally, the students get annoyed when classmates come sick. I had one come complain to me just today about her class before mine, upset that she spent an entire period next to (her words) “wheezing and snot.”

Simply put: it is disrespectful to others to come to school sick. You may have valid reasons for sending students (exams, rigorous classes, no childcare, etc.), but that doesn’t change the fact it’s disrespectful to others. I’d be happy if people would just own that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

I am not a stay at home parent, but my work schedule isn’t the schools problem. I had to keep my son home today because he has a cold a week after school started. Don’t be an a-hole and send an unwell child to school.

That said, many kids are probably contagious before they develop symptoms and idk what the answer is. Additionally, kids are mucusy forever with colds. How long should they really be out of school for? A day or two? It’s not like they can work remotely once they’re feeling better but still on the mend.

Similarly, that the OP and her family have chronic health issues isn’t the school’s problem either. Nor is it the problem of other parents and children.

If you get the teachers and staff sick, it is their problem as people like you aren't willing to sub after you get everyone sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

I am not a stay at home parent, but my work schedule isn’t the schools problem. I had to keep my son home today because he has a cold a week after school started. Don’t be an a-hole and send an unwell child to school.

That said, many kids are probably contagious before they develop symptoms and idk what the answer is. Additionally, kids are mucusy forever with colds. How long should they really be out of school for? A day or two? It’s not like they can work remotely once they’re feeling better but still on the mend.

Similarly, that the OP and her family have chronic health issues isn’t the school’s problem either. Nor is it the problem of other parents and children.

Yes, that’s true. But people still shouldn’t send their sick kids to school. They should only be sent back once they’re starting to feel better and symptoms are improving. This isn’t to protect hyper-compromised people, it’s just common decency.

Obviously most people disagree with you, at least to the extent you’re trying to apply that to children with mild symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

I am not a stay at home parent, but my work schedule isn’t the schools problem. I had to keep my son home today because he has a cold a week after school started. Don’t be an a-hole and send an unwell child to school.

That said, many kids are probably contagious before they develop symptoms and idk what the answer is. Additionally, kids are mucusy forever with colds. How long should they really be out of school for? A day or two? It’s not like they can work remotely once they’re feeling better but still on the mend.

Similarly, that the OP and her family have chronic health issues isn’t the school’s problem either. Nor is it the problem of other parents and children.

If you get the teachers and staff sick, it is their problem as people like you aren't willing to sub after you get everyone sick.

Are you suggesting kids going to school with mild cold symptoms is a new phenomenon? Because I assure you it isn’t.