DD is 14, in Y9 and overall we are very happy with her school. But they are super strict. Last Thursday they had their teenage jabs in school and on Friday morning DD was really miserable, woke up at 4am, had a fever of 101.4F (38.5C) and was so tired she couldn't sit at the kitchen table to eat breakfast. I thought it was a side effect of the jabs because it used to happen when she was little, so that was what I said when I phoned the school to report her absence. She went back to school yesterday and she was told by the Head of Year that her absence would be unauthorised, because the school nurses had said anyone with a reaction to the jabs should just take paracetemol and come in to school.
I'm not the type of parent to keep their child off school for any little thing and the number of times I've resisted DD screaming and crying and told her no, you CANNOT stay at home, it's just a cold. So I'm really annoyed. She was really miserable and I looked it up online, the NHS website says you should keep children off school when they have a temperature above 38C.
Just wanted to rant really and some reassurance that I am not being unreasonable to be annoyed!
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Seattleite · 18/07/2017 09:01
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