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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look I get it, you need to work. So does everyone else. The system is strained with RSV, flu, strep, and covid. Schools have so many staff members and teachers out - they're not invincible. Your kid doesn't just have a little sniffles and it's not allergies - they're hacking their lungs out, have green snot falling from their nostrils, your write angry emails when we send them to the nurse, and your kids are suffering when you send them to school. They complain their throat hurts, ear hurts, and you keep sending them back when they're still sick (and contagious). [b]You gotta let them heal completely. [/b]

You gotta break the cycle. We all have to do it. It sucks, but keep your sick kids home from school. Their chin strap of a mask doesn't do jack shit. You gotta keep them home.  Please. I beg you. 
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The bolded is where you are going to get the most pushback, even from parents who are very conscientious about keeping sick kids at home. The stuff that's circulating now? Kids don't "heal completely" FOR WEEKS.

OP, be specific -- are you asking parents to keep children home for 10-15 days, maybe even as much as a month, until the are 100% better, before returning to school? What are you actually asking?

Also, this is a collective action problem too. Last year I kept my kid home a ton because between Covid and just heightened fears around illness, I didn't want her at school with a cough or runny nose even if they were just residual symptoms of something I didn't believe to be contagious. I really didn't want to get anyone sick. Guess what would happen every time I finally sent her back? She'd get sick almost immediately because no one else was keeping their kid home like I was.

Keeping your kid home for everything don'ts actually "break the cycle" of contagious because no one else does it. Everyone still gets sick (including your kid), it's just that they are all in class while your kid is missing tons of school. It winds up burdening just the parents who are trying to be responsible.

So this year I'm sending her back in sooner and just accepting she'll be sniffly/coughing at school a bit. She's already missed 10+ days this year, are you really suggesting I should have kept her home more than that because of that cough she had that lingered for weeks and weeks?[/quote]

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