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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]

My kids have had multiple colds this past year and they are not calling me to come get my kids at daycare.  It's not covid because I caught them too and got a negative test.  I don't even know what constitutes a symptom with my daycare.  Covid is so broad and affects every different, just look at the health forum for posts like "is it allergies, a cold or Covid".  We'd never be in school if we had to quarantine/stay home for every little sneeze/sniffle.  My kid is allergic to our cat and is always sneeze.  [/quote]

Yup. PP here and our kid had terrible allergies this spring. She started a new PK in February and the second week she sneezed during drop off and I was so panicked about it and actually suggested taking her home. The director was right there and laughed at me. If they sent kids home every time the sneezed, coughed, or had a runny nose, there would have been months with no kids in school this year. It's not realistic.

That's why fevers are kind of the hard and fast rule -- it's the clearest and easiest-to-measure indication that a kid has a virus as opposed to allergies. Is it perfect? No. But it's a pretty good indicator, and with Covid rates so low, it makes a lot of sense to make it a bright line rule. And then you just have to make a judgment call regarding cold/allergy symptoms based on severity and what you know about your kid. There is also trust involved, and that's never going to change. We need to get past this phase where we are all terrified of each other and blaming one another constantly. It's not productive and actually leads to people being more shady and lying more because they are afraid of getting called out. We really are all in this together, whether we act like it or not.[/quote]

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