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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, lady, I sent my kid to school in a mask when she was sick so she wouldn't pass her cold on to other kids. Nobody else did that, so we stopped. We've been sick nonstop since September. It's not going to stop. Feel free to keep your own snowflake home, but nobody else is. Deal.[/quote]

I hope you like subs.

- A teacher who caught Covid at work a month ago and is taking leave once again for some other virus. (And yes, I caught it at work. I’m always at work. I literally go nowhere else.)[/quote]

This exchange exhausts me because it's unnecessarily combative. Who do either of you think is the enemy here?

Everyone is getting sick. Everyone. My family has had Covid, flu A, and two regular colds this fall. Since September. We kept kids home for 5 days for the flu and Covid (technically 7 days when you count the weekend) and 2-3 for each cold. So that's three weeks of school missed. But my kids have still been at school with coughs and runny noses despite all that time at home, and while I don't like it, I am sure they have helped spread some of these things. What am I to do? Pull them out of school? Who does that help? And yes, I'm getting this garbage too and it's miserable, caring for sick kids for day after day and then as soon as they are well enough to go back to school, I have a fever and am barely functioning. I am limping through work this fall as is my husband.

I don't want my kids' teachers to get sick. I don't want my kids to get sick, or their peers. I don't want to get sick. But there is a bunch of terrible stuff floating around and, like a lot of people, we're getting it.

No one is a snowflake. No one "likes subs." We're all in the same boat. People are doing the best they can. I sent my youngest to school in a mask today because she sounds kind of congested and might be coming down with something, but was behaving fine and no fever and again, SHE HAS MISSED THREE WEEKS OF SCHOOL TO ILLNESS THIS YEAR. I'm sure that sounds irresponsible to you but again, what would you have me do?[/quote]

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