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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Time to treat covid like the common cold.  Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day.  Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours?  GO back to school.  Wear a mask for one week.  But no more missing school.[/quote]

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold.  However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.  [/quote]

The problem is no one follows that rule.  Literally no one. I had a kid in my classroom deep chest coughs, stuffy and runny nose. Parent acted like he was displaying none of these and was healthy.  [/quote]

Literally no one? How can you say that based on your anecdote(s)? I guarantee you there are people who would not have sent a coughing kid to school, because I am one of them. I didn't send sick kids to school pre-Covid either.[/quote]

You do realize you are an outlier among  the DCPS parent population, right?  I’m glad you do the right thing.  Thank you for that. But this has been a decades long problem with no solution.  Kids come to school sick and a lot of parents are mad you are calling them about it.  I’ve had kids vomit then sit at school the rest of the day because no one will pick them up.  [/quote]

I do know that it is a pervasive problem, and maybe I am an outlier, but I'm hardly the only one who doesn't send a manifestly sick kid to school. So your emphatic "literally no one" was unnecessary, extreme hyperbole, and I reacted to that.

I did hope that this would get better with Covid. Not that I was expecting, or even hoping, that people would keep their kids home for a stuffy nose (I don't do that either), but I certainly hoped that the business of drugging your kids with Tylenol before sending them off to school would stop, or the practice of sending the kid back the next day after they vomited all over their classmates the day before.[/quote]

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