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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid has tested negative for everything and still is coughing three weeks in; this is lifetime pattern for him due to asthma. How long should I keep him out of school?

You don't actually know everything.[/quote]

Bullshit. He has SOMETHING, just not what he's been tested for. Thanks for passing whatever it is along to others.[/quote]

NP, but he's not contagious 3 weeks later with asthma. That's just lingering inflammation. You'd be back by then even with COVID.

Look, I don't send my kids if they feel badly, but if they have a runny nose with clear snot and are at normal energy levels, then they go. They've missed so much school that there's no way they're staying home for days at a time for the sniffles. I think it's a great idea to encourage masking for those kids, and I think the teachers at our school already do that. [/quote]

NP and yup.  One of my kids is chronically congested. Flonase takes care of it, but if we forget for a few days in a row he gets stuffy again - that’s just how he is (as per his pediatrician and allergist).  I also don’t send my kids if they feel bad, or even if they feel fine but, say, puked the day before.

Honestly?  People should have thought of the long-term consequences of keeping kids out of school as long as we did around here.  When you stress the system as much as it was stressed, something has to give.  You burned that bridge with over a year of remote, quarantining HEALTHY kids for 10 days, etc.  Too bad, so sad.[/quote]

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