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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- [b]All flu vaccines for the entire family done by August. 2 [/b]weeks before school opens. It messes up your kid's academics
 to fall sick in the first quarter.=
- [b]Zinc tabs, airborne tabs, occilococinum tabs, germex[/b] and face masks.  Kleenex with lotion. 
- All physicals finished before school (Birthdays are in August thankfully)
- All dental cleaning, eye exams, derm appointment finished
- Two of everything that my kid could lose and marked them very well - 2 lunch boxes, 2 sets of outerwear, 2 bookbags, 2 sneakers etc. 
- Asked for and got the syllabus from the district before school started. 
- Bought all the textbooks for all the subjects second hand in Amazon. Even if I did not know exactly which text books were being used. I went by the topics in the syllabus.
- Also bought second hand - all the summer reading list books. Used other schools websites to get multiple lists.  Made sure kid read many of these books. 
- Hired tutors and made sure that my kids were ahead by at least a quarter in some key subjects. 
- At least two weeks of vacation abroad. 
- Life skills - some chores and some cooking lessons.

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This poster failed MS science - flu vaccine better by end of October so it doesn't wear off too fast. Airborne? really!?[/quote]

Nope. Nope.  Mid-August flu vaccine (preferably quadrivalent jab) so that you have built up immunity in the two weeks before school opens.

By Jan 20th - most kids would have already travelled in a herd and fallen ill with flu or other respiratory illness  - summer break travelling, school opening, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, NYE travelling.   You have no need to worry after that because most kids have fallen ill and recovered, even if they did not get the vaccine.   You don't need to get a jab in October and then be covered till March.  You need to be covered from Sept to mid-Jan.

Most kids fall sick in September and October.  And lo and behold, you have wrecked their first quarter, first semester.

Airborne works well for us, but then we are also vaxxed, wear masks in stores, use hand sanitizer and avoid the school buses that are packed like tins of sardines. [/quote]

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