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[quote=Anonymous]I have twins in daycare and over the last 9 months, I have had to pick them up several times for fevers.  And if one has a fever, I have to bring both home because it's over half hour each way to daycare/work.  It's too hard to pick one up, the have to go over an hour round trip later in the day to pick the other one up (which dragging along the one that had the fever).

That said, while I understand the hardship (I now count my remaining leave balance in hours rather than in days), I also prefer this policy.  My children have caught *ALL* of their colds at daycare and I can usually point to the child or adult who has had similar symptoms just before my child had them.  I personally feel that if the daycare wasn't as vigilant on this policy for other children that my kids would be getting sick more often than they already are.  So, the daycares do this for the benefit of the other families.

I also don't think out daycare uses this as a ploy to send a difficult child home.  Both of us have stopped in at various times during the day (the daycare is in the building where my spouse works and I work 5 minutes away) and we have seen some horrifically bad behavior by some child (rarely ours, but even they have moments) and the child in question usually stays the entire day.  As they get older, they're having these bad moments less often, but there are still some days that I really feel bad for our teachers.   But, as was already pointed out, we pay daycare so that we can actually work during the day and still have our children cared for, on good days and bad...[/quote]

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