The sick kids... ehh. The lice kids are the worst! DCPS allows kids with lice & it’s a mess. It spreads like wild fire.

Oh suck it up. Kids get sick. Adults get sick. It happens, it's part of life. All of us with kids had them in ES at one point, and probably all all were sent to school with a cold at one point. Am not talking fever or vomiting, but a cold. If you don't like it, homeschool or live in some other bubble...

I’m an early childhood center director and some parents definitely send their kids to school sick and it’s not that they need to work and don’t have child care. Believe me. I feel badly for OP. It really sucks. We send kids home if they are obviously sick- it’s obvious - trust me and I don’t mean minor sniffles. But I’ve had parents whose kids have thrown up in my office one day and show up to the school the next. I send them home again. Some parents are kinda crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Sending kids with vomiting, fevers, etc. is horrible, but I’m surprised to see so many people implying that kids should be kept home for coughs, colds, etc. Our pediatrician always says to go back to school after 24 hours fever free or similar...wouldn’t truancy be an issue if kids took a week off for every cold or minor virus? My otherwise-healthy little kids seem to have runny noses and sneezing half the winter, and the doctor says that’s typical.

No, it is not normal to have a cold for half if the winter. Maybe because your kids never get a chance to recover? No, this is not healthy.

So you send your coughing and sneezing kids with running nose to school? You don’t care about other kids or your own do you?

Cleveland Clinic says to send kids with mild cold symptoms to school.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/should-your-child-stay-home-sick-heres-how-to-decide/

+1. Pediatrician spouse, and we send our kid to school with mild symptoms (only one cold so far this year, kid doesn’t get sick often).

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We send our kids as long as the fever is under 102. We give them Motrin and they are fine. They are just sitting at school so they get rest and aren’t bored

If they are ok after having some medicine, I don’t see the harm in sending them to school. If they just threw up, then I would keep them home. If it was a couple of hours ago, it’s out of their system and should be good to go

oh my god, 102 fever and just puked mom--you have to be a troll, no one is this stupid.

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Nope, my 4th grader isn't usually sick. My toddler has the requisite runny nose, but nothing unusual.

So now it's ok if they have a runny nose, but not ok if they sniff and cough? Ok Aunt Lydia. Good luck with that.

Your toddler is not going to miss calculus if he stays at home for a couple of days with running nose, sneezing and coughing. If you do send him the other kids will also catch the same cold. Also, it might turn into more than just a cold. Get it, Karen?

I’m amazed that your kids runny nose only lasts two days! What kind of supplements are you giving Sheila? We are in week #2 of same runny nose....

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Like I was saying. It’s your bad hygiene. It’s not normal to have colds that long. Do you wash your hands? Did your child have a chance to rest and recover or have you been pushing him out the door with a spoon of Ibuprofen?

NP and we are a big hand washing family. Two of our children rarely get sick. The other gets sick all the time. Get off your high horse and be grateful that your children are lucky enough to have strong immune systems. You sound like a truly awful human being.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say that in DC’s private school parents are a lot better about this than in public school.

I guess better off parents have more dignity.

Otherwise, you know you’re being an a-hole to everyone- your kid, other kids, teachers, etc.

It is possible that you are right about private school parents keeping their kids home, but that could be down to a variety of factors other than "dignity." Specifically, private school families can be removed from a school community, and know it.

Or perhaps it's because people who can pay $40k/year to send their kids to school can pay for good backup care. Most people can't, and that has nothing to do with dignity and everything to do with equity.

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Nope, my 4th grader isn't usually sick. My toddler has the requisite runny nose, but nothing unusual.

So now it's ok if they have a runny nose, but not ok if they sniff and cough? Ok Aunt Lydia. Good luck with that.

Your toddler is not going to miss calculus if he stays at home for a couple of days with running nose, sneezing and coughing. If you do send him the other kids will also catch the same cold. Also, it might turn into more than just a cold. Get it, Karen?

I’m amazed that your kids runny nose only lasts two days! What kind of supplements are you giving Sheila? We are in week #2 of same runny nose....

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Like I was saying. It’s your bad hygiene. It’s not normal to have colds that long. Do you wash your hands? Did your child have a chance to rest and recover or have you been pushing him out the door with a spoon of Ibuprofen?

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Nope, my 4th grader isn't usually sick. My toddler has the requisite runny nose, but nothing unusual.

So now it's ok if they have a runny nose, but not ok if they sniff and cough? Ok Aunt Lydia. Good luck with that.

Your toddler is not going to miss calculus if he stays at home for a couple of days with running nose, sneezing and coughing. If you do send him the other kids will also catch the same cold. Also, it might turn into more than just a cold. Get it, Karen?

I’m amazed that your kids runny nose only lasts two days! What kind of supplements are you giving Sheila? We are in week #2 of same runny nose....

You mean Larla? You new here?

Anonymous wrote:I have to say that in DC’s private school parents are a lot better about this than in public school.

I guess better off parents have more dignity.

Otherwise, you know you’re being an a-hole to everyone- your kid, other kids, teachers, etc.

It is possible that you are right about private school parents keeping their kids home, but that could be down to a variety of factors other than "dignity." Specifically, private school families can be removed from a school community, and know it.

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Nope, my 4th grader isn't usually sick. My toddler has the requisite runny nose, but nothing unusual.

So now it's ok if they have a runny nose, but not ok if they sniff and cough? Ok Aunt Lydia. Good luck with that.

Your toddler is not going to miss calculus if he stays at home for a couple of days with running nose, sneezing and coughing. If you do send him the other kids will also catch the same cold. Also, it might turn into more than just a cold. Get it, Karen?

I’m amazed that your kids runny nose only lasts two days! What kind of supplements are you giving Sheila? We are in week #2 of same runny nose....

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Like I was saying. It’s your bad hygiene. It’s not normal to have colds that long. Do you wash your hands? Did your child have a chance to rest and recover or have you been pushing him out the door with a spoon of Ibuprofen?

Anonymous wrote:so it's not been my experience that contagions are constantly sweeping the school. (Which is what you'd think from the hand-wringing on this thread.)

it’s been my experience that they sometimes have to close schools during flu seasons. Judging just by the number of posts here on people getting sick and having to change plans for Christmas, it’s prevalent.

My kid woke up with a fever this morning. Thanks to the ahole parent of the kid she caught it from. I can take her shopping, see a movie a restaurant, an indoor playground. But I’m not going to. I’m not an ahole.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah sorry my kid gets sick from going to school like once a month and we don’t take a week off every month.

We have jobs.

So my career takes a hit then. Thanks a-hole.

Because the whole world centers around your paper-pushing career?

NP, um, I think that was a teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah sorry my kid gets sick from going to school like once a month and we don’t take a week off every month.

We have jobs.

So my career takes a hit then. Thanks a-hole.

Because the whole world centers around your paper-pushing career?

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Nope, my 4th grader isn't usually sick. My toddler has the requisite runny nose, but nothing unusual.

So now it's ok if they have a runny nose, but not ok if they sniff and cough? Ok Aunt Lydia. Good luck with that.

Your toddler is not going to miss calculus if he stays at home for a couple of days with running nose, sneezing and coughing. If you do send him the other kids will also catch the same cold. Also, it might turn into more than just a cold. Get it, Karen?

Yup, that's cool. I'll just keep my toddler home for 3 days at least once per month.

Hey, Karen? Did you know that not everyone has unlimited PTO and that *some* families need both parents to work in order to *pay* the bills?

Guys, Karen doesn't work, and clearly she doesn't understand how the real world works. I find it laughable that she thinks that my kids "rest and recover" if they stay home with a runny nose. More like they run circles in the house.

The funny thing is, my mom was a SAHM and we absolutely went to school with colds. It’s just part of life in the winter. We stayed home for strep, stomach bugs, flu, etc. So I don’t think this is just a SAHM obsession, this poster may have some anxiety issues.

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Nope, my 4th grader isn't usually sick. My toddler has the requisite runny nose, but nothing unusual.

So now it's ok if they have a runny nose, but not ok if they sniff and cough? Ok Aunt Lydia. Good luck with that.

Your toddler is not going to miss calculus if he stays at home for a couple of days with running nose, sneezing and coughing. If you do send him the other kids will also catch the same cold. Also, it might turn into more than just a cold. Get it, Karen?

I’m amazed that your kids runny nose only lasts two days! What kind of supplements are you giving Sheila? We are in week #2 of same runny nose....