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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It’s interesting to me that you describe two identical situations in which parents send sick kids to school but in your pre-Covid scenario, it was done out of necessity (because they have no other choice, must go to work, can’t find backup, perhaps the child has already been home a day or two but they are out of sick leave) and in the post-Covid scenario the parents are callously forcing their sick children to go to school for “political motivations.”

What on earth? It’s the same as it ever was. Parents keep sick kids home when they can but if a cold drags on or of the kid is borderline, they might send them in sick if they really can’t afford to miss work and don’t have good backup options. It’s bizarre that parents are behaving exactly as they always have, but you no longer have any empathy for them and assume they are politically motivated in their behavior. You might want to examine your thinking there because it makes no sense.[/quote]

DP. If you replace "political motivations" with the need to stay home for minor sickness outweighed by concern about how much school kids have already missed, you would be closer to the truth.[/quote]

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