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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW I don't think most people have solid backup sitters. You just get used to a higher degree of stress and you figure it out as it comes. I've also done things like send kids to school a little sick figuring it gets me part of a day before (or if) the nurse sends them home. Not great, but it doesn't happen much. If I really couldn't miss work I would consider using a service like White House Nannies. It will be an adjustment and feels like a scramble at times, but it does work out![/quote]

Nice. So your kids get a chance to get everyone else sick, you don't miss your precious work, and then the rest of us have to scramble for care for our kids. [/quote]

This is how I ended up with pink eye for Christmas. -elementary teacher[/quote]
Do they not send kids home if they suspect pink eye anymore? Pink eye is spread really easily...all it takes is touching a contaminated surface and then touching your eye - you could have picked it up in a number of places (unless you had a kid in your class with a pink, oozing eye; but then I would be hyper-vigilant about hand washing!). [/quote]

I had multiple kids with pink eye who were went to school by parents last week and then I had to send them to the health room when I noticed it. It obviously was a domino effect after the first one came in and was contagious. By then the damage had already been done. Some parents just dismissed it as allergies when they were called to pick their kid up and argued about it. Of course I was hyper vigilant about hand washing when I could get to a sink but I don't have a sink in my classroom.  I Cloroxed every service while wearing gloves but still ended up getting it. Just so you all know--building services doesn't deep clean our classrooms. When bugs go around we're the ones who have to disinfect the whole room.

But at least it was better than the kids who had puked on the carpet in a grade level down the hall last week. My co-worker has spent the whole break with the stomach bug going around her house due to that.

Here's the thing. Kids tell the truth about what their parents tell them. I had one kid who had obvious pink eye tell me that his mom told him she'd take him to the doctor that evening but he needed to go to school.  Another who puked on his desk told me that he had thrown up in the middle of the night. So please don't think you're pulling one over on us when you do this. [/quote]

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