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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][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]

I’m not the PP you are replying to. Some of the parents fall into this category. However I have worked in an elementary in a high income area for a long time. My experience has been that it is more often the highly paid professionals that refuse to come get their kids or medicate and send them to school. The parents working hourly jobs more often keep the kids home or get family to look after them once they’re well enough. [/quote]

Somehow I doubt you know what's going on with every parent.  And I do think that you are just generally venting your hatred of parents on an anonymous forum.[/quote]

I’m a DP.

I have over 20 years of experience walking very sick kids to the nurse, hoping they’ll be sent home. I’ve sat with these sick students as they cry, saying their parents are aware they are sick but sent them anyway. I’ve sat with them as they plead to be picked up because their temp is now 102 since the medicine wore off, only to be told to stay in school. I’ve checked on these kids as they remain at the nurse’s station for the remainder of the day, too ill to go to class. This doesn’t happen once a year. This happens MANY TIMES.

This is obviously not a criticism of every parent, although I’m sure some DCUMer will take it that way. This is a criticism of those who willingly do this to their children, not those who have no alternative. [/quote]

And the conclusion from other posters is that these parents "hate their children" (see multiple posts in this thread).  It seems difficult to imagine for most people on this thread that the circumstance that lead to this heart-rendering circumstance is not "parents hate their children" or "parents don't care" or some other derogatory thing.  It is that those parents have to be at work.  People can have empathy or they can decide ill-intent is at play.  They can reserve judgement for a situation that likely do not understand.[/quote]

I. Don't. Care. You're putting my kid's health, my ability to work at risk. And I understand: I grew up very poor. My parents did not send me to school sick. It's a shi--y and selfish thing to do. [/quote]

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