48 hour exclusion rule

Some people pick and choose which school rules apply to them and theirs, orhers don't.

Unfortunately there are plenty of parents who send in sick children even if they are home themselves. I've had one who knew the bug had already hit granny who had the children two days before then mum and dad got it before passing it to baby but still brought them in....and that's just one example.

Not all families have the luxury of contingency plans either. What about people who have no family support or there's no after-school club at the school, just for example?

In an ideal world, the OP is right, but the way society in this country is set up it makes very difficult for lots of people to prioritise health and wellbeing over work.
And people blaming each other instead of the structure is just silly and petty.

Of course not. But that's not the same as knowingly inflicting a DV bug on multiple other families!

Tell me you haven't had a bad case of noro recently without telling me...

You're absolutely right. It's selfish of parents to knowingly send a child into school who is/could be contagious. I don't understand how people haven't learned more from covid.

I understand that it's difficult to get childcare, but why do people not have contingency plans? Things can ALWAYS happen, then you HAVE TO come up with another plan.

Also how unfair for the kids to go back to school so quickly when - even if they aren't symptomatic anymore - they probably feel completely washed out and need a day or two in bed.

This.

It feels like norovirus is doing the constant rounds at my DC's school because of idiotic parents.

In fact, I'm pretty certain of that considering in the space of 3.5 years at primary, DC1 has had 9 sickness bugs (despite being clear for most of reception year due to COVID restrictions).

She is particularly prone (younger DC has had two their entire life), but sheesh.

In fact, I think it's probably those who have DC who aren't prone to getting them who aren't particularly bothered. If DC1 were like DC2, I probably would also have more of a laissez-faire attitude. (Though would still stick to the damn 48-hour rule!!)

A boy did this in my dd's class. Had been sick at home then sent in and threw up next to my dd, who then caught it and it gradually went round the whole class.

Because they have a child who vomits at the drop of a hat, car sickness, coughing too hard, you name it, and if they kept said child off school for 48 hours every time that child would miss a ridiculous amount of school.

Her mum could take time off, she didn’t want to. That school reducing it to 6 hours is ridiculous.

No, because they are still contagious.

There are different exclusion periods for different illnesses. It’s not true that people can’t get the time off. They might have to take it unpaid if they’ve had a lot of time off though but they can’t just willingly spread a stomach bug to other families.

Based on these responses you can see just how selfish people are. They haven’t prioritised finding a family-friendly job so they don’t care if they pass the bug to 30+ children and staff. How do they know the parents of the other kids can take time off easily? They need to prioritise parenting.

I worked in a private nursery that needed to close because parents wouldn't follow the 48 hour rules and all the staff came down with it. Because of when I started being sick then finished being sick followed by 48 hours, I lost 3 days pay before SSP kicked in on the 4th day. Ironically the parents who were the worst offenders were the first to moan but they all started following the rules. The nursery while closed got a deep clean from the cleaning staff.

We had to juggle life and work if the children were sick, but that's life.

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I've heard some tales from friends of heads who've said ridiculous things about genuinely unwell children.
My feelings are always the same about headteachers like that: they'd rather have a go at the decent parents and try to intimidate them to get their children in regardless of illness than deal with the real attendance cases in the school. It's low hanging fruit to try it on with agreeable families and much harder to engage with the families who persistently don't engage with school.

I've always erred on common sense when sending mine in or keeping them off. I don't want to be responsible for putting other families in awkward situations and I'm also not going to be sending my poorly children into school when they need a day resting with a parent.

Unless there's something here you're not telling us, this is a massive assumption you're making. Kids vom for all sorts of reasons apart from tummy bugs.

This child threw up the previous day, and overnight though, and presumably was feeling a bit rough in the morning since they then went on to throw up at school. So a sickness bug was definitely the most likely cause, and the parents should have known that.

If your child throws up multiple times not from travel sickness and not from an underlying medical condition, you're taking the piss if you try and pretend it's not far more likely to be a bug.
And I'm assuming this child doesn't have an underlying condition that the parents are aware of, because she was sent home. There is a child at my DD's school who is sick fairly regularly but isn't sent home because the school are aware of a health issue that causes it.

Unless there's something here you're not telling us, this is a massive assumption you're making. Kids vom for all sorts of reasons apart from tummy bugs. My DD voms when she smells something bad. Or sees someone else vomming.
You have emetophobia, so clearly thinking about a child being sick near yours is a big issue for you. But it's your issue.
Of course they shouldn't have sent her in if they expected a tummy bug, but life is rarely that simple.

I'd happily keep to the 48 hour rule.
I have done for primary.
Please tell that to the School Attendance Officer in secondaries.
They harumph if you keep them off 24 following D+V, let alone 48.

I do stick to the 48 hour rule as far as possible but I can understand why people don’t. I’ve been in the zero hours job situation over Covid where I missed so much work from kids having to isolate that i stopped being offered shifts and ultimately was forced out of my job over it.

I’m now self employed and in December my kids were off school sick so much that I didn’t meet the minimum income floor for uc and was heavily penalised for it as UC don’t take child illness into account. In the past I’ve been penalised by UC for several months in a row because my dd was in hospital with her asthma so much. So when one of my kids is in any way well enough to go to school I will send them, especially if it’s a virus as I know that dd will likely be in hospital with the same virus the following week!

She told the teacher she had been sick twice in the previous 24 hours though

I wonder if they moan when the teachers are falling like flies and the supply teachers can't cope....do the parents go to work with a sick bowl and just carry on vomiting while working? Most people get holiday pay but don't want to use it for this.

She wasn't travel sick in bed ....presumably doesn't have an allergy and that's not sick twice ...what do you think causes vomiting

Which of those do you feel is a reasonable excuse????

I have discovered since this incident that they are bricking it about poor attendance post-covid. If you a call in sick more than once in a term you get a phone call from the office to remind you how important attendance is and how's there's very little need for them to be off sick.

That said, I told this story to my best friend and she laughed and called me twat and said I should've known that 48 hr rule was a thing everywhere!