You do understand that this isn't about your child that is truly sick. This is about the parents who allow their children to stay home for weeks without any sort of notification to the school. This is about the parents that take their children out of the country for weeks at a time to visit their native country. It is about the children who are actually truant. There are parents who never notify the school of why their child is not in school. They don't call, they don't sent in a note. They just ghost the school. You can understand how this can have a negative impact on the child who is not receiving an education. You can see how this is going to impact your child because when the student does return for a prolonged absence the teacher has to catch that student up.

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Anonymous wrote:Huh, if your kid is sick for 4 days you're not taking them to urgent care?

They test positive for COVID with an at home test on day “0” and then have to stay home for 5 days. That’s potentially 6 days home without seeing a doctor

If your kid is home for 6 days, at least one of those days is a weekend and not a day of missed school.

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Anonymous wrote:What, you don't want to pay $100 to sit in a waiting room with a bunch of even sicker people for 4 hours? Where is your sense of adventure?

Urgent care is like $20-$25 with most insurance. And if you make an appointment, you won’t wait 4 hours.

DP. That it costs $25 and might be faster is there is still no reason to be there, except MCPS’s excessively fastidious administrative BS. That’s a fairly terrible basis for any additional use pressure on the health care system we have going in this country rn.

I thought the email said it was a STATE law in which case your argument is with MD not MCPS.

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Came here to say this. At the state level they have reduced the number of days absent to unenroll a student (10) and made that mandatory. They are also pressuring school systems to enforce existing laws around absences. Statewide, absences and truancy are up significantly and it’s a concern.

Some parents have their kids out of school for many days in a row when they should be in school, and then just say the child was sick. Vacations are a big issue. But also parents having their own issues and wanting the kid to stay home even when they are not sick. Not every family is as functional as yours, OP. You are complaining about a scenario that hasn’t even happened to you yet. When it does, either get your note with a telehealth visit or be prepared for the school to want to talk to you about it. Honestly, they aren’t going to care when it’s the one time all year you kid was out. But when you’ve racked up 20 absences before winter break, they are legally required to have a conversation with you about it.

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Anonymous wrote:What, you don't want to pay $100 to sit in a waiting room with a bunch of even sicker people for 4 hours? Where is your sense of adventure?

Urgent care is like $20-$25 with most insurance. And if you make an appointment, you won’t wait 4 hours.

My in-person urgent care visits run me $75, but there are probably telemedicine visits that can run much cheaper.

Again, if your kid is sick for 5 days, YOU SHOULD be talking to some kind of medical professional.

Our insurance does not cover urgent care. We have to go to the er. On a rare occasion we can get urgent care preapproved but you need a doctor to approve it and you cannot get appointments within a few weeks let alone same day. The virtual one we use is $75 out of pocket. We spend a fortune out of pocket for medical care.

Sounds like you should get out of your house and get a job.

Why would I need to get a job? Silly comment.

Of COURSE you don’t work. LOL.

Anonymous wrote:Five consecutive days is a lot. This policy is not in the least unreasonable.

My kid was out five days. No big deal.

Five consecutive days is a lot. This policy is not in the least unreasonable.

Is there any penalty for not providing it? Probably not...

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Anonymous wrote:What, you don't want to pay $100 to sit in a waiting room with a bunch of even sicker people for 4 hours? Where is your sense of adventure?

Urgent care is like $20-$25 with most insurance. And if you make an appointment, you won’t wait 4 hours.

DP. That it costs $25 and might be faster is there is still no reason to be there, except MCPS’s excessively fastidious administrative BS. That’s a fairly terrible basis for any additional use pressure on the health care system we have going in this country rn.

I thought the email said it was a STATE law in which case your argument is with MD not MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:People will just ignore this policy, and MCPS won’t enforce it. Do what you want, OP.

I don't think it's so much about the inconvenience to op when their kid is sick. It's about the incentive for other parents to send their kids to school sick. Or at least that's my concern.

Mcps needs to send kids home. And call cps if patents don’t pick them up.

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Anonymous wrote:What, you don't want to pay $100 to sit in a waiting room with a bunch of even sicker people for 4 hours? Where is your sense of adventure?

Urgent care is like $20-$25 with most insurance. And if you make an appointment, you won’t wait 4 hours.

My in-person urgent care visits run me $75, but there are probably telemedicine visits that can run much cheaper.

Again, if your kid is sick for 5 days, YOU SHOULD be talking to some kind of medical professional.

Our insurance does not cover urgent care. We have to go to the er. On a rare occasion we can get urgent care preapproved but you need a doctor to approve it and you cannot get appointments within a few weeks let alone same day. The virtual one we use is $75 out of pocket. We spend a fortune out of pocket for medical care.

Sounds like you should get out of your house and get a job.

Why would I need to get a job? Silly comment.

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Then you should not have had kids.

That's a sassy opinion, I hope your doctor gave you permission to have it.

If you cannot be bothered to take your kid to the doctor or keep them home it speaks volumes. I’m sure my doctor would agree my kids are well cared for.

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Anonymous wrote:What, you don't want to pay $100 to sit in a waiting room with a bunch of even sicker people for 4 hours? Where is your sense of adventure?

Urgent care is like $20-$25 with most insurance. And if you make an appointment, you won’t wait 4 hours.

My in-person urgent care visits run me $75, but there are probably telemedicine visits that can run much cheaper.

Again, if your kid is sick for 5 days, YOU SHOULD be talking to some kind of medical professional.

Our insurance does not cover urgent care. We have to go to the er. On a rare occasion we can get urgent care preapproved but you need a doctor to approve it and you cannot get appointments within a few weeks let alone same day. The virtual one we use is $75 out of pocket. We spend a fortune out of pocket for medical care.

Sounds like you should get out of your house and get a job.

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Then you should not have had kids.

That's a sassy opinion, I hope your doctor gave you permission to have it.

Anonymous wrote:People will just ignore this policy, and MCPS won’t enforce it. Do what you want, OP.

I don't think it's so much about the inconvenience to op when their kid is sick. It's about the incentive for other parents to send their kids to school sick. Or at least that's my concern.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to have awful “insurance “ and can attest that some plans you are probably better without.

I think you can pay for a cheap telemedicine Dr and they can give you a note.

I know *I* could. And so could everyone else on this thread if they wanted to. The point is this is an incentive to just kids to school sick instead because that's easier and cheaper and school is making the alternative a pain in the ass. Some parents don't have the time/money/patience for that. And I count me in as someone who doesn't have the patience.

Then you should not have had kids.