Dd sent to medical room by herself with lunch

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I probably am bu.

Dd got sent home with another tummy ache today. Hadn't eaten her lunch. Got asked if I wanted them to give her Calpol or do I want to collect her.

I offered to go get her. She hadn't eaten, so if the Calpol had worked she would probably be hungry and wouldn't concentrate on her work. I dunno. I got the impression anyhow that they'd rather I came to collect her.

So this evening dd (7) tells me she was sent from the lunch hall with her lunch to the medical room by herself to finish her lunch which was (in her words) wasn't very hot when she got there.

Aibu to question why she was a) sent by herself and b) why was she told to take her lunch with her.

It's the not the first time I've questioned their care towards kids when they're ill. Normally I've just rolled my eyes and got on with it. Just today had annoyed me (probably because last week I dished out another load of money for school stuff so I'm currently a bit at her school but that's for an entirely different thread)

So they aren't really on their own. The office is the busiest place for traffic in the school at lunch time.

It was probably a 'take your dinner with you pet, in case you feel better while you wait for mum'.

But do you mean that she was in the canteen, collected her food, told a dinner lady she felt sick and was sent to the office then sick room? So she asked the office herself to call you? Or was she escorted to the office and then went to sick room on her own?

think it's more that she was sent on her own. What kid when feeling ill wants to be sent somewhere on their own?

Do you expect another student to miss out on their meal to escort your child?

But what do you think should happen?
Another child to miss their lunch and potentially catch a bug to sit with her?

Or a teacher to miss their lunch and potentially catch a bug to sit with her?

Would you have been happy if it were your child doing the accompanying, or your child's teacher isn't teaching today because they're sat with x in the medical room?

think it's more that she was sent on her own. What kid when feeling ill wants to be sent somewhere on their own?

What staff member is going to force another child to miss their lunch to accompany a sick child?

What staff member is going to have the time during lunch to sit with your daughter instead of getting their own lunch in the few minutes they get to do so?

We used to get kids "feeling sick" all the time at a school I used to work at because unless it was raining they had to go outside at lunch/break time and some kids just didn't like being outside in the cold. They would fake being ill to go to the sick bay, where they were usually accompanied by a friend and would mess around ... when we started a rule of "only the sick child may go, and they spend the rest of lunchtime there lying down quietly by themselves" they soon got bored and stopped.

It's a win all around - genuinely sick children are where they need to be, without risking passing on any bugs or anything contagious to other, healthy children; nobody misses lunch and it weeds out kids who just want to go and mess around with their friends for a bit.

They were afraid she would spew (would spread the bug) and she needed someone to keep a close eye on her. Dinner ladies are rushed off their feet & don't keep a close eye on anyone. It was in her best interests to have a quieter space & be spared embarrassment & spreading germs if she puked.

She's old enough to have the independence to walk down a hallway to the medical room.

NotCarylChurchill I mean antibiotics...Most schools wont give doses of antibiotics when a child has been prescribed it, they will make parents come in to school to give the child the antibiotics