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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid has tested negative for everything and still is coughing three weeks in; this is lifetime pattern for him due to asthma. How long should I keep him out of school?

You don't actually know everything.[/quote]

Bullshit. He has SOMETHING, just not what he's been tested for. Thanks for passing whatever it is along to others.[/quote]

NP. Sorry, I’m not keeping my kid home for three weeks for a lingering cough you psycho. [/quote]

We're not saying to keep your kid home for 3 weeks. But 3 days. That's doable. There are so many parents who send their poor suffering kids to school when they're clearly ill. 
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Or scream at me and demand I send their child (who “wasn’t sick this morning!”) back to class despite the fact that the child has a concerning, phlegmy barking cough. Then to really “show me” takes over two hours to collect her child from the clinic.

[b]I’ve had parents tell me that they can’t come to school to pick up because of work, then situation changes for the worst and child goes to the ER with an administrator.[/b][/quote]

So we are seeing this right now. As a secretary, I have had 7 students rushed to the ER for breathing issues, non-stop projectile vomiting and fevers that soar very high after the Tylenol wears off. These parents were called repeatedly and either did not answer or answered and said they could not collect their child and gave consent for them to be taken to an urgent care or ER. Shame![/quote]

I mean, this sounds like an issue about poverty, single-parenthood, lack of protections for people who work, etc.  Morality (and shame) shouldn't be involved.[/quote]

Yes, school staff should solve all social problems and do it with a smile while covering 3 peoples jobs!

It’s just the way it is!
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DP and no one said that. But the parents pumping their kids with Tylenol and sending them to school very sick and then refusing to come get them? Are not people who will be helped by a shaming post on DCUM. They need other social supports like more sick leave and worker protections, sick day care for their kids provided by the public, parenting and mental health support, etc. They won’t read these posts and feel embarrassed and then stop doing this. These are acts of desperation by people who have very limited choices in life.[/quote]

Ok then, please go lobby for that.  No one is going to listen to school staff, so since you seem to have a tinge of social justice in you, please get off this forum and go argue for that in an arena that will bring change.

As many many things do, this post turned into attacking teachers in supposedly friendly forum where parents have the means to not send kids to school sick, so good luck out there fighting the good fight![/quote]

[b]LOL[/b] this whole thread is about attacking parents.  And the comments that you are linking to are where a school secretary said that parents who can't pick up sick kids should feel ashamed. [b] So yeah...uh...kind of get a clue on[/b] the context here.[/quote]

Sarcasm is a form of attack[/quote]

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