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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher last week I got Covid from a student who was sent with a runny nose. I got a fever and was miserable and missed 2 days of school. Then my assistant got it- 3 days off with a fever. Yesterday the teacher next door to me got it and will miss at least 2 days. 
So now of course we don’t have subs and a few short weeks into the school year, we are all exhausted and splitting classes. 
So FCPS touting send kids to school with fever free symptoms is going to run their workforce into the ground and it is already running on fumes. 
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I am not keeping my child home every time he has a runny nose. He has seasonal allergies that start as seasons change and last about a month. He has had them since he was a baby. We were so happy when we could give him toddler allergy medicine because the cough, from post nasal drip, and runny nose finally cleared up for long periods of time. It is the same now and he is 12.

I am not buying a ton of COVID testing kits to check every day if this is a cold or allergies because that would be cost prohibitive. He has a runny nose for almost 6 weeks straight when the seasons change. If you want to pay for 42 COVID tests please let me know. It sucks but that is what it is. I am sure that the runny nose is sometimes a cold and maybe even COVID. If he is lethargic or coughing a bunch or complains of a headache to go with his sniffles, I will keep him home.

I promise I keep him home if he has a fever, stomach ache, vomit, diarrhea or he tells us that he is feeling off. He is not a kid who skivs off school so we trust him when he says something feels off. It has always turned into one of the above listed issues so we are ok with his staying home.

Schools would go ape if parents kept their kid home for every runny nose because of the number of days that they would miss.

I do think it is irresponsible to send a kid with a fever, stomach issues,  or diarrhea and I know parents do that. I don’t think sending kids to school with runny noses or an occasional cough is out of place or wrong. [/quote]

Relax, you are feeling very defensive and that wasn’t the point o fry post, I’m sorry that is what you got from it.

That is fine and you are correct to keep your kid in school with a runny nose ,but i’m just pointing out  the cost. People have different family situations as I test because I can isolate from my cancer patient mom.

I’m point out that kids will miss more school being split between teachers etc with the policy change. I understand none of that is your problem except for your kids experience which will be less time with their actual teacher in school, or more time with more kids in the class and more disrupted days for ALL KIDS, not just yours.

I do not hold the parents responsible at all if that is what you are thinking, but I do think principals under pressure saying kids should attend sick is a problem and will be not help the issue.except for their stats for attendance[/quote]

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