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[quote=Anonymous]Before Covid, when people sent their sick kids to school, it was mostly after exhausting other alternatives and with a lot of chagrin. They knew that it was hard on their child and unfair to classmates and the teacher. My SIL was a school nurse for almost thirty years. She worked in a high FARMs district where parents couldn’t afford to miss a shift to stay home with a feverish child so they would dose them up with Tylenol and pray for the best. She knew to scoop up those kids the teachers identified as ill and keep them in her office until dismissal to try to halt the sickness spreading through the entire school.

Post-pandemic, so many parents have a politically-related pride in sending their sick kids to school. It’s insane because not only are they potentially infecting others, but they are forcing their own sick kid to leave home and sit in school all day. I’m middle aged now with teens and older, but I recall my own childhood colds and virus and my children’s. You stayed home, cuddled with a caretaker, napped and watched tv or a movie, had ginger ale, chicken soup, and crackers. Usually, you felt better within a day or two. The one time I was feverish at school that a parent couldn’t pick me up was in HS when my mom had a mastectomy a few days before. Eventually, my 87 year old neighbor came to get me because everyone realized school is not an appropriate place for a sick child. He’d never even had kids of his own, but he got it. What has happened to these parents? [/quote]

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