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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“COVID is a big problem in our community. We are going to pretend that planning engaging lessons will solve it.” There’s the email. [/quote]

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I just got out of an attendance meeting where administrators were blaming parents for keeping their kids home and telling us teachers to do everything we could to encourage students to come every day.

I'm like "Not if they are sick thought, right??"[/quote]

Our school is in the habit of sending students back to class after they vomit and allowing them to return less than 24 hours after being sent home with a fever. No surprise we've had a ton of staff sick, too. It's hard to execute an engaging lesson when you feel like crap but get hassled for taking off more than one day because there's a shortage of subs.[/quote]

I work in school clinics. There’s an ongoing problem where teachers send students down all bundled up, with backpacks on and carrying lunchboxes. The kid will tell me, “my teacher says I’m probably going home” since (she felt my head/says I have a fever…I coughed/have been coughing…I told her I threw up…says I look tired…” and on and on and on.

I assess and talk to the student. Sometimes I call a parent who demands I send back to class as there is no reason for parent to race in to pick up this kid.

I send kid back to class and sometimes get a nasty phone call and or visit from classroom teacher lobbying their case, “no fever? Really? I don’t want to have my whole class out sick and she looks awful and it just not one to complain” or “I’m gonna call Mom. You don’t know her like I do. Kid reallly needs to be at home”[/quote]

This is not the issue. The issue is kids who vomit in class—with multiple witnesses— and are sent back from the clinic because they don’t have a fever or parents couldn’t be reached. When they vomit a second time, it’s really hard not to say, “I told you so”. There are also the students who get sent home with a fever. No idea why they are allowed back the next day; presumably the main office doesn’t want to inconvenience the parents and doesn’t really care because their exposure to the student throughout the day is minimal.[/quote]

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