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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach preschool. There are 18 kids in the class. 2 weeks ago one child was out sick. She missed one day and returned with a cough. Parents insisted she was only coughing at school. Guess how many kids are now out sick (very sick)…13! 
I have been in early childhood teaching for nearly 30 years and have never seen anything close to this. [/quote]

Can you send the coughing kid home? Sincerely asking. I’m so sick of seeing visibly sick kids at drop off. There are exclusion policies but they’re not enforced.[/quote]

As numerous posters have explained, a coughing child at drop off may in fact be a kid who just spent a full week at home with a cold/RSV/flu and is finally returning to school after getting 85% better. and now you want to send that kid home again.

I am very sorry for the PP teacher with 13 kids out. That's miserable. I have actually seen that before, though usually with those crazy viral stomach bugs, which usually only require a day or two at home because they burn out quick. This fall has been something else with what is going around now. I think we're all seeing some crazy absences.

But I'll tell you something else, and I'm sorry to say it -- even if that kid had stayed home more than a day, I bet the rest of your class would get it. If it's not that kid, it's a different one, or someone's sibling, or a kid with good immunity catches it and has minimal symptoms so never stays home. These kids are all getting sick this fall, there's really no avoiding it.[/quote]

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