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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously? I thought there was a 24 hour no vomit rule in addition to no fever rule.

I'm sorry OP. That really sucks. [/quote]

NP. People don't follow the rules. They suck. Not only because their kid is miserable at school and infecting other kids, but also because teachers and staff have to deal with it and become exposed. Teachers have limited sick leave, and we are no longer allowed to take leave without pay. Any sick leave taken past your available amount now has to be pre approved by admin and HR ahead of the leave being taken. My 5 year old had surgery last year and I used up all of my saved up leave to help him recover. Now I have very little sick leave, and will likely have to go into work sick myself once I'm out of sick leave because waking up sick can't be approved in advance. There are multiple illnesses going around the building at any given time due to parents sending their kids into school sick, whether it's the "he just threw up once" variety or the "load her up with Motrin so I can get in a half day of work because I don't want to burn PTO--whoops, it's actually the flu " variety.

And, yes, I'm aware that people need to work to pay their bills. I worked for years at a school with a very high FARMS population, and the parents were pretty much always able to find extended family or someone in the neighborhood to help out, so it can be done. For some reason it's the low FARMS population who tend to send their kids in sick more often and consider it to be someone else's problem. [/quote]

It's the professional parents with management level (when it becomes harder to leave because of meetings and travel) 9 to 5s and no grandparents nearby (or older/deceased grandparents) that often have the most problems. For what its worth, the lower-income people tended to be able to find someone to cover their shift and switch to a night shift or had larger extended family nearby and younger grandparents.[/quote]

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