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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm the parent of an asthmatic/allergic kid, and I'm also a teacher.

I think, unfortunately, kids and teachers will need to stay home if they have respiratory symptoms or a fever, even if we know that the symptoms aren't covid. For one thing, I think that the rule in the classroom is going to be that if you have symptoms you leave. Anything else, is just going to be confusing and open up areas for parents to lie and say they had their kid tested, etc . . .

But I also think that a kid who is asymptomatic for covid, but sneezing due to pollen, for example, is probably going to spread way more virus than a kid who is asymptomatic for anything. If you get tested at the start of the sneezing, and you're negative, it doesn't mean that you still don't have covid a week later.[/quote]

My kids have allergies and if they stay home whenever they sneeze or have that post nasal drip cough then they will be home for long stretches of the year. One has ADHD and even missing one or two days of school sets her back weeks because its so difficult for her to figure out what she missed.

I wish that 6-12 grades would make a point of recording all classes ,  putting all assignments on-line the same day they are given in class (ie not pop up the day before they are due because the teacher isn't timely in posting assignments that she gave in class on-line) and only giving assessments that can be taken on-line from home. This way kids can stay home without worrying about blowing up their grade and kids with underlying conditions that shouldn't attend at all get a fair shot. [/quote]

If we reopen, there has to be something like this in place. Kids staying home cannot be harmed in any way. But that sounds like a lot of work for teachers.

PS - I'm a fellow mom who has been where you are with teachers not posting assignments. At one point, I was borderline suicidal because my kid would not get it together and I didn't have the information to home him accountable. Maybe one good thing that might come of this would be commitment to posting assignments electronically the day they are assigned, rather than making kids get the information from their friends. [/quote]

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