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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]

To some degree, yes. When the child really is not themselves, I call and tell the parents.  Right now the kids are small and the cough is bad. In fact I sent one home (had been out a week, came back but sounded awful) last week, later in the day the mother called to thank me for sending her child home. They ended up going straight from picking the child up to the emergency room where it was determined they weren’t getting enough oxygen and began breathing treatments. 
I don’t claim to be an expert on much, but I do know when a 4 year old is too sick to be at school (for their own well being as well as the rest of the kids). [/quote]

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