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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if the school nurse there (a health department employee) has been consulted on any of these measures. Doubtful. [/quote]

FCPS has pretty clearly said attendance policies for illness are back to pre-pandemic. The fact that some people on DCUM cannot get used to that idea doesn't change it.[/quote]

Precovid kids still aren’t supposed to come to school when sick, and some children are going to miss due to chronic illness or other issues. Here are all the current reasons your child should stay home: severe coughing, pink eye, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, rash/fever, strep.

[b]Agree this is misplaced.[/b] My children have had low level gunk since the beginning of September and we haven’t missed a day, but we would if we had any of the above symptoms. [/quote]

Disagree.  Yes, kids get sick and should stay home and yes, kids are getting sick more and for longer after covid.

But the big problem is parents who have decided that school is optional and have passed that idea on to their kids.  It's not a low SES idea either, it's across all SES.  It's all over this forum, everywhere.  And [b]it harms kids to miss school.[/b]  [/quote]

So how will kids who missed an entire year and a half of school going to be compensated for the harm they suffered?   Any kid who was school age during the pandemic years has ZERO obligation to adhere to the policies of a system that DENIED them education (and according to you, caused them harm!)[/quote]

You act like every single kid at every single school in every single state in the entire country (and world) wasn't faced with the same pandemic that caused learning loss. [/quote]

Students in southern states attended in person classes during the pandemic and did not have the learning losses associated with remote school.[/quote]

Do you know any students in Southern states?  They had classes that would close for a week or two due to covid, or switch to online.  They had teachers missing school (or dying) due to covid, classes combined occasionally or frequently.  They had family members sick or dying from covid.  Those kids didn't skip the pandemic.  They experienced it differently, and maybe (hopefully) in a less damaging way than other kids.  But they still went through it.  [/quote]

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