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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New Pre-K3 parent here. Before Covid, what is the general standard (if there is such a thing) for keeping a child from school? I understand that you should keep a kid home with a fever/vomiting/diarrhea/etc., which usually lasts 1-2 days. But with most colds, kids are snotty and coughing for another 1-2 weeks after the fever/the worst is over. They are presumably still contagious. But I can't imagine snot and coughing keeping kids out for 1-2 weeks at a time. So what has been the accepted thing to do during that 1-2 week period, pre-Covid?

And moving on to our Covid times: Assuming there is some in-person school next fall AND no routine Covid testing (i.e., not just temperature checks, but actually checking for Covid), I imagine that any respiratory symptoms that would have been dismissed as a run-of-the-mill cold before would now assumed to be Covid, and a kid would be sent home and possibly ordered to not come back for 2 weeks, amirite?[/quote]

For my kids, if they had a fever, they were home for the duration of the fever + 24 hours fever-free without meds. For vomit/diarrhea, they were home for 24 hours after the last incidence. Beyond that, I kept them home if they needed to stay home. With both of my kids, if they were feeling really cruddy, you could tell. They'd have a listless look about them, be very tired, etc.

I think in COVID times, what I'll be doing is monitoring symptoms. If your kid is coughing such that you suspect COVID and not a run of the mill cold, get them tested and keep them out of school until the test is clear. [/quote]

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