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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your anger needs to be towards the admin on this one. If the rules states 24 hours for throwing up, the kid needs to be sent back to the nurse until he gets picked up.if the parents can not be contacted, then move on to the emergency contacts. Regardless, the child stays in the nurse’s office or elsewhere. This is common sense.

- teacher also[/quote]

I think this depends on the school. Our health tech is extremely inconsistent and admin is too busy with other issues to be present in the office and confirm each decision the health tech makes. I've sent an email to admin to confirm what policies the health tech should follow, and I got the 24 hour rule as a response. The caveat is that if a kid just says they spun around and got dizzy or coughed hard and threw up from that, then the nurse takes it at face value and sends them back to class if they don't have a fever. A lot of kids get stomach bugs without fever, and many times they think they threw up because of something like spinning around but a few hours later it's apparent it's actually a virus. Last week I was picking my daughter up at aftercare and overheard a dad asking his daughter if her "poop was still like water today". Uhh, that's diarrhea. Why are you sending a 5 year old to school with diarrhea? Guess who got diarrhea a day later?

For those who are saying it's the teacher's responsibility, how can the teacher contact the parents with a room full of kids? Also, a lot of admin will not let teachers override the decision of the health tech because that's considered their area of expertise.[/quote]

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