Our school requires Covid tests to return to school if the child is ill with potential Covid symptoms. Our school has had well over 20 students who have tested positive this month. The school nurse isn’t the one making this rule.

I suppose this is idle curiosity on my part, but what is triggering the need for a Covid test to return to school? Our school does not have that requirement, the child is simply supposed to be symptom-free for 24 hours. Testing isn’t required anymore.

Demanding an apology is pointless. I think it’s fine for the principal to contact the parent and reinforce the rule and tell them yelling at the nurse is unacceptable, but demanding an apology is needlessly escalating an already tense situation.

and when the white kids can go to the nurse for feeling 'unwell' and just get a hug, can return to class- but the black kids need a covid test- you had better believe my hackles are raised.

I'm not condoning yelling- but I'm also getting very tired of being called to pick up a kid- who has no fever, no cough, no vomiting- and being told they have to have a covid test to return, and no one can point me to any written document that requires such a thing.

Principal needs to send out an email to every parent discussing the unacceptable encounter with the nurse, and that it is expected for students to get tested to rule out COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop demanding Covid tests of kids for every little symptom. It’s beyond ridiculous.

The nurse is not the one who makes the rules, just enforces them.

Okay then who is ‘making the rules’ no one takes any responsibility for them. The school definitely claims it’s the nurses decision when to require a Covid test.

This is beyond the point. Whether you agree or disagree with the decision to require a Covid test, no one should be threatened or be yelled at and feel unsafe. The parents were clearly out of line and should be banned from school property.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop demanding Covid tests of kids for every little symptom. It’s beyond ridiculous.

The nurse is not the one who makes the rules, just enforces them.

Okay then who is ‘making the rules’ no one takes any responsibility for them. The school definitely claims it’s the nurses decision when to require a Covid test.

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop demanding Covid tests of kids for every little symptom. It’s beyond ridiculous.

The nurse is not the one who makes the rules, just enforces them.

We need to stop demanding Covid tests of kids for every little symptom. It’s beyond ridiculous.

An apology will not change what they did. Demanding someone apologize is the biggest waste of time. Of course the nurse can file a police report if she wants. Why would you think she can’t? Why would you think YOU c/should take legal action of any kind? This didn’t happen to you!

Let it go. The principal or administrator should have stepped in but demanding an apology is silly.

Now, instead of not

That’s terrible! I’d tell admin at least, so they can contact parent to tell them not to interact with nurse again and that police will be contacted if anything else ever happens. Little do they know their reputation will not follow them through school and their poor kid will be the hot potato that no teacher wants in their class.

Today, our nurse was screamed at and spoken to in such an extremely angry way that she is worried for her safety. She had to tell a family that their kid needed a covid test to return to school and the parent went ballistic. I feel like our principal or our superintendent needs to call this parent and tell them they need to apologize. I wish our nurse could file a police report. It was that bad. I'm the teacher of this child and I'm trying to figure out what action I can possible take to support our nurse. Any kind of legal action I can take? Probably not, right?