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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Covid weren't an issue, this still reads like a kid who should be kept home from the time symptoms started. A child with a persistent cough, fatigue, sore throat, and stomach issues should be home resting, not sitting in a classroom with 25 other students and a teacher. In the past, schools probably wouldn't have made the kid stay home unless he had a fever, but going forward they definitely should when in-person classes resume. My guess is this will cut down on transmission of flu, strep, stomach viruses, etc.  Yes, it's inconvenient for a lot of families, but it's going to be necessary from a public health standpoint.[/quote]

Umm. A cough isn't "persistent" the day it starts.  The sore throat didn't exist until today.  Just curious, do you want schools to reopen full time F2F?[/quote]

PP here. Maybe I misread the OP. From what I understood, the child's cough and headache started on the first day and continued, and other symptoms followed.

I would like to see schools open F2F, but with a lot of mitigation in place (masks for everyone, PPE for staff, extra cleaning, that kind of stuff). I believe schools have been too lax in the past about sending sick kids home or making them stay home after they've been sick. [/quote]

That's reasonable. I asked because in the God awful return to school thread, people are demanding full-time return with no or few mitigation efforts because school is a public health need and COVID isn't that bad. I was going to say you can't have it both ways. If COVID isn't that bad, then you can't take such drastic measure to exclude kids from coming to school that you deprive them of a right to public education. That's why kids are allowed to come to school with runny noses, colds, etc. If COVID justifies such measures, it raises the question of whether schools can open at all. It is hard to see how you can have it both ways. One of my kids will never be in school. [/quote]

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