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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on folks, you know it's more complicated than this.

My kid got sick the weekend after her first week of camp. We wound up keeping her home the entire second week even though she likely wasn't contagious anymore after Wednesday. We had a negative Covid test any everything.

While I know she got sick at camp (I mean, obviously -- and by the way, now I have it so yay), I don't think anyone sent their kid to school with symptoms. They do a temp check every day and will send kids home with cold symptoms. But there are lots of viruses where kids might be contagious before they are symptomatic, or they might develop a fever over the course of the day after being totally fine at drop off.

I hear this from teachers too, like there are a bunch of parents out there eager to send their visibly sick kids to school. While I'm sure it happens because of work (this country has a childcare crisis that has only gotten worse in the last year), I think most of the time parents honestly don't know their kids are sick until they've likely been spreading whatever it is for at least 12 hours.

Kids are going to get sick. Parents are going to get sick (hello). And yes, teachers are going to get sick. Now that Covid rates are really low, we need to accept that there are lots of non-deadly, non-novel viruses that kids spread all the time, and this is just at the reality of having, or being, or working with young kids. We knew this.[/quote]

Thank you for this voice of reason![/quote]

There are, as there have always been, parents who knowingly send sick kids to camp or school.  But most of the time, people are contagious with colds and the like before they notice any symptoms.  Kids spread cold viruses to each other all the time.  This is not new; it's perfectly normal.  [/quote]

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