To not care how important your job is, if your child has impetigo

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You keep them off school! More so if the sores are still active!

Got a bit of morning run rage going on at the moment

Yanbu but sadly this is how things are going to be when employers discipline you for sneezing wrong.

It's fine to attend with impertigo once they have been on antibiotics for 48 hours. Dd had it like 4 times within a few weeks so clearly even though I kept her off the 48 hours no one else did rendering the whole thing pointless.

ivy you posted before about your daughter needing weeks off at a time. Nobody is saying the child needs to be off until the impetigo is better but they should be off until they have had antibiotics for 48 hours.

The school where I work, I can think of 2 members of staff who take immune suppressing medication, one for a chronic illness (ie me), one because she had an organ transplant. I can also think of one child who has been taking high dose oral steroids which also suppress the immune system. I don't know how many parents are also pregnant, taking steroids or immune suppressants, or who are in other high risk groups.

Having said that, I do understand that many people feel unable to have time off when their child is ill, and I wouldn't begrudge them if they fiddled it a little (eg see doctor on Mon and given antibiotics, return to school on Weds when it's been 45 hours) but to not have even sought medical advice about open, weeping sores? The poor child!

Well Impatientismymiddlename unless all of the other parents are willing to club in to pay my rent, I will continue to be downright selfish.

Because quite frankly, as far as my children are concerned, being homeless is far worse for them than worrying about other people's immune systems.

There is simply no way that I am going to risk my job for the hypothetical risks to someone else.

If everybody did the right thing and kept their child off for the required amount of time for all illnesses, then on the whole everybody would be off far less as the children would stop passing things between each other. But that relies on everybody doing what is good for the school as a whole, which as dusty points out, may be bad for the individual.

I am self employed, so don't get sick pay, holiday pay etc. However, there is a chill in ds2's class who is having chemo. The school specifically asked that if children are ill, please keep them off school for the safety of this child. Fair enough imo. It my chough are ill, I chose to have them and it is my responsibility to either take time off to look after them myself, or to make other arrangements.

Dusty do you send yours in if they've had an upset tummy? Vomiting?

Wouldn't it be funny if parents really were willing to pay dusty so that her children didn't infect theirs, making them need time off, so it could save them money in the long run!

Oh ffs, bloody swype on tablet keeps mangling anything I write.

Dusty the school may well insist you collect the child anyway.

Grennie I take your point. I'm just saying that any decision regarding my son's health (life?) is out of my control, because other people insist on sending their children in unwell. My job is at risk too. Especially when I have to take a week off almost every time he gets poorly. And he has no residual immunity because his immune system was completely reset.

I have no choice to send him in and save my job ( not that I would anyway) as we have to go to hospital.

I don't know many parents who would prefer to work rather than stay home with a sick child. I would assume in most cases it's simply fear of the consequences, which can be dire.

The first year my DS was in nursery, he was sick literally 50% of the time. If I'd been employed rather than a student I would have lost my job for sure. I can't believe people are so glib as to say 'just stay home', it's not always that easy.

Oh ffs I'm too livid to form a coherent argument anymore.

I'd keep them off for vomiting etc., and stuff which meant they actively felt unwell.

But I simply can't afford to do that with stuff which means they may be contagious but feel well.

If the school were to send them home, then I'd have to deal with it, clearly.

There's very few parents who will actually send their kids to school when they are really unwell. I just think we have different definitions of unwell and probably apply them to ourselves as well as our children. I wouldn't keep a child off school for a cold any more than I'd have a day off work for a cold. It's just a fact of life that these viruses get passed around school, and there's not a lot you can do about it. My criteria for time off work/ school is unable to get out of bed and showing insufficient improvement with a dose of calpol or similar.

Because quite frankly, as far as my children are concerned, being homeless is far worse for them than worrying about other people's immune systems.

Yes because it's much better to risk putting somebody's immunosuppressive child into the ICU of the local hospital than face getting the sack from your job. Nobody is denying that taking time off can have amo,oh meant repercussions, but the life of a child is more important than a job (even somebody else's child).
What would you do if your child had d&v and couldn't go more than half an hour without needing to shit? Would you still send them to school?

Some people are unbelievably selfish.

Amo,oh; not sure where that typo came from

It might not be easy to 'stay at home' I agree but it is a hell of a lot harder for someone with a compromised immune system to cope with the infections you may well pass on. My H picked up a coldsore infection, took it really badly (in bed for a week and lost a stone in weight), and it mucked up our last shot at IVF - oh, look halfway through tx and sudden severe viral infection and no sperm! Not to mention what it did to our 2 year old who ended up in hospital with sores down his throat / under his eyelids etc. You do need to think on that the consequences of your not taking a day off can be much more severe than you could ever guess.

I saw a LOT of this preschool/infants.
IME it was often HCP's doing it too
Hugely selfish :O

My youngest has impetigo at the moment. He went to school on Friday as I thought it was just a scratch that he had been bothering. The school mentioned it in his diary (he goes to special school) that they thought it was impetigo. I would have never knows as in my 13 years as a parent none of my kids have ever had it. He started antibiotic cream on friday but I kept him off today as it hasn't quite dried up. I do know that at his school if they are worried or think something is infectious they phone you to come and get them as being a special school some of the kids are more vulnerable to bugs etc.

I knew someone who bragged that she had dosed her ill child up with calpol and sent her to nursery, knowing full well nursery would phone by lunchtime asking her to collect her ill child. She thought this showed just how dedicated she was to her job . No, dear, you were just being selfish. Sad thing was this person worked with children too, so if she showed so little empathy to her own ill child, it made me wonder how much/little she would show to those she worked with.

sorry, not implying ivf treatment or poorly 2 year old is comparable to suppressed immune system person for whom it could literally be life altering, just trying to add my tuppence worth that there can be big consequences that are unforeseen by the person sending in the child with weeping sore on their face because they 'cant take time off'.
Well actually, all you are doing is passing on the 'time off' problems to someone else - the person your child infects / parent of that person.

The system is wrong. I don't remember ever knowingly sending my child into school sick, but I did have to leave her at home alone when she was seven and recovering from chicken pox because I couldn't afford not to go to work and I had no-one available to mind her.

I was living in Ireland, but I know that in England I could have gone to prison for doing this. So parents are caught between a rock and a hard place.

I would have ran past the office and reported it . It's totally selfish . You see this all the time (and hear it as they cough cough).
I hate the issue of time off school - my son has tic disorder and some days he has been really bad and in need of time out . It really irked me when the attendance officer rang and I had to explain this to her over the phone and in front of my son .
I hate the certificate that is awarded to each pupil with 100% attendance . Total bollocks .

when impetigo made it's rounds at our school they just said to keep it covered and to see gp for treatment. no time off required.

Some people say they put their dc first but they are hollow words if they don't take time off when they are poorly.
No job is more important than your dc.