No authorisation for being sick!

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My dd who is 4 has the winter vomiting bug, she has had it since yesterday & was sick yet again this morning.
Phoned school this morning and ive been told they no longer authorise absences unless a sick note is obtained or if a child has actually been sent home from the school premises!
Aibu to think this is ridiculous?
So angry that this is going down as unauthorised.
This a new school policy since they became an academy a few weeks back.

Ive been told by office to try to obtain a sick note from doctors.

I would not issue a sick note for a child! Very occasionally a child with a chronic illness needs a quick handwritten note which I don't charge for, or a parents employer asks for a formal letter which is chargeable.

What a waste of everybody's time. I'd write to the head and the chair of governors. Actually, I'd be tempted to phone my GP and ask for a sick note and a fee note and send both in with a request that they settle up directly with the surgery. That will soon make them think.

How about offering to bring a bucket full of vomit into the school? Just so they can confirm she has actually been sick. Seems slightly better than taking a sick child into either school or the doctors surgery.

Great idea Mummytokaty
She is better today thankfully, so ive sent her in not caring for the 48 hr after vomitting rule.
If they all catch it, it will be there problem to deal with and may just teach them what a stupid system they have and i can't take the risk of being fined!

pumpkinds they can not fine you for not sending a 4 year old to school

You are under no obligation to send her to school at all yet

They also cant fine you for being ill.... would love to see it in court...

You won't get fined!
And you should really have followed the 48 hour rule however annoyed you are.

I assume Acadamies still have governing bodies who have to approve poicies. Write to the CoG (copy to the HT) pointing out the arrant nonsense that it is.

as 4 years do not officially have to be in school, their absences are not even recorded.

My daughter was 4.5 and we had a 2 week family holiday booked (we were not going to enrol her initially as we were moving)...those absences never appeared on her record. Only those after her 5th birthday

As a working parent the 48 hour rule causes me no end of problems. From a selfish point of view it does me no good. It is for the good of other parents and children. I stick to it solely because I'm a fundamentally decent person who likes to do the right thing.

But in this circumstance my options are:-

Waste NHS resources - BAD
Unauthorised absence - BAD
Break 48 hour rule - BAD

So morally which one should I do?

Add to that the fact that one of these will mean I don't have to miss work and I think there will be (even more) liberal interpretations of 48 hours and a lot more bugs going round schools.

I suspect that this rule will stop about the time that a child is sick on the teAacher and the mum cheerily says "he was sick in the night too but our doctors don't do sick notes for kids so I thought I'd better send him in. Don't want an authorised!"

I've had the exact same thing last week with DS who has suspected German Measles. Rang up KCC and they said that in the handbook schools are told that they can NOT ask parents for drs notes etc unless its a prolonged or reoccurring absence.