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[quote=Anonymous]People are seriously advocating keeping your kid at home when they have a cold?  Most little kids I know have chronic runny noses all winter long.  If they don't get sick that often, then they are probably only children with SAH moms, because daycare, preschool, elementary school, ballet class, having older siblings, visiting your cousins, whatever, get a bunch of little kids together and they get sick.

If the average child gets six colds a year, and it takes two weeks for a cold to run its course, and most colds happen during the school year (because summer isn't really prime cold season), then your kid would literally miss 12 weeks of school.  That's three months, or a third of the school year.  You can't be serious.

My niece has autoimmune issues, and because of this my SIL is seriously considering homeschooling.  Because unlike you nut bags, she realizes it is unreasonable to expect an elementary school to be a sterile place where no one will ever have a cold.[/quote]

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