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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree 100% that parents should not knowingly take their kids to school sick.  However, it is important to remember that kids may get dick with very little notice.

Once when I was young, I got to school and immediately threw up, not having given any prior evidence that I was sick.  My mother, who was also the school librarian, immediately took me home and the principal was left to clean up the mess.

Worse, when my oldest child was in second grade she threw up after lunch and the first I heard about it was when I arrived to lead an afterschool class for my youngest and the other kids told me about it.  I tracked down my daughter in her program and she confirmed that she had thrown up and said that smelling the vomit in her hair was making her feel sick.  I found someone to cover for me and took her home.  Apparently, they had her if she was feeling better and since my literal child felt that feeling sick after throwing up is better than actually throwing up, they sent her back to class, vomity hair and all.  They justified their lack of notification by saying that sometimes kids faked getting sick to avoid school, even though my child had never once done anything like that in the three years she’d attended that school at that time.  I instructed her that anytime she was sick she needed to call me and notified the school in no uncertain terms that she had been so instructed and they were not to prevent her or otherwise conceal from me information regarding either of my children’s health.[/quote]

This. There have been a couple of times when we've sent our kid to school apparently fine and when I picked her up, I was like "omg why didn't the nurse contact me" because she was so visibly unwell with some kind of virus. I actually told the school to please notify me if they ever see my kid with those kinds of early onset symptoms again, because I felt terrible (for my kid, and for anyone exposed to whatever she had) that she spent at least part of the day walking around school with what was quite obviously fever and lethargy. I would never have sent my kid to school like that.

But I've had this happen too. Gone into work, felt fine, and then had something come on over the course of a few hours. Often the first sign of a virus is just fatigue, not cold symptoms, so it's easy to overlook that as just not getting enough sleep (especially for those of us who never feel like we get enough sleep!).[/quote]

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