Reply to When a kid shows up obviously sick for a play date

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "When a kid shows up obviously sick for a play date "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I'm a preschool teacher and it makes me sooo annoyed when parents send in their kids with very obvious sick symptoms. I'm not talking a little stuffy nose or a little cough. No I'm talking just snot running like a faucet from their nose, watery and red eyes, coughing and hacking. First of all it's not fair to their own child to be sick and miserable at school. It's not fair to the other kids who are now exposed to sickness and to those other parents who are diligent about keeping their sick kids homes. These parents sending in their sick kids knowing they are sick are being so incredibly selfish to the other families it makes my head spend. They have no idea if the other kids in the class have a sickly family member where if they catch anything it could be major, or another child in the class who is immunocompromised. They have no idea of the underlying health conditions of the teachers. Oh no but my favorite are the parents who drug their kids up on fever reducing medication than magically 4-6 hours later their child has a fever. We aren't stupid we know what you did.

Preschool is not a substitute for home and it's certainly not a hospital or doctors office. On top of managing a classroom of children and teaching them and dealing with the everyday happenings of a 3/4 year old classroom now teachers are expected to play doctor and guess this sickness.

Nope. I used to feel bad about calling parents to come get their child if they are sick but now I don't anymore. Sorry not sorry.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics