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[quote=Anonymous]No school or daycare is cool with a kid who is throwing up at school. All kids in that condition will be sent home, which the vast majority of parents know and thus do not send vomiting kids to school. This isn't a widespread issue.

I had assumed OP was one of those parents who freak out when a child is at school with a mild cold. I have encountered a few parents like that at our school and I find them exhausting. The presumption that you can keep kids out of school for every case of the sniffles is silly -- in early elementary when kids tend to catch ever virus, this would result in some kids being home more than at school. Also some kids hold onto coughs for a long time -- they need to go a doctor to check for a bronchial infection or other issue, but they don't need to be kept home. Covid made a lot of people so freaked out mild cold symptoms, there's a lot of over-vigilance and just lack of critical thinking on these issues these days. My kid gets seasonal allergies (for which she is medicated) and I've had a parent tell me "she should really be at home" when my kid sneezed once or twice during peak hay fever season. It's ridiculous.[/quote]

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