To think a child shouldn't be off sick from school but be able to go shopping with parent?

[AlexanderandPie]

Or is this acceptable?

Maybe the child wasn't actually sick and she just fancied giving them the day off. My friend always keeps her kids off for their birthday and sometimes other special occasions. We are in Ireland though and no one cares if you take a random day off, unless the child is absent more than 20 days in the school year.

My DS was off school when he was in hospital for an investigation under a general anaesthetic. He recovered very quickly and so we went to McDonalds for lunch and to the shop to get something nice for dinner. If it hadn’t been a Friday, he’d have been off school the next day too even though he felt perfectly well.

My 6yo yesterday at 6am had a sore throat and temperature. By 7.30 no improvement so I called school and reported her absent. By 10am she felt better and I had my days jobs to do that I couldn't put off so we popped to Tesco.

The fresh air did her good, she didn't feel like crap cause mum made her go to school and she had a bit of a rested day.

Myself and DH had this same sore throat earlier in the week and we both felt a bit rubbish so I saw no harm once she said she was OK.

I took DD food shopping with me yesterday, she is off school with a Water Infection so not contagious and we needed something for lunch. I wouldn't take her if she was infectious though.

I can remember taking one of mine into Primark when off with a chest infection.
We live close to town centre and it was close to the gp where he'd been prescribed antibiotics. We had to go to chemist anyway, so I popped in for some essentials.

You sound like my ex-boss who raised a stink when he saw a colleague ‘shopping’ on his sick day.

I remember being quizzed once about what I had done on a sick day by HR, and I confusedly answered I'd been in bed all day apart from walking to the local drop in emergency clinic. She suddenly let the subject go, and I twigged that as the clinic was on the top floor of a shopping centre one of my lovely colleagues must have seen me going in, jumped to the wrong conclusion and told HR I was out shopping!

The hoicked pants are strong with this one...

(Hoping I didn’t go in the same shops and restaurant as Namechanger and her DC...)

Ha this is like my mum who thinks that my son who is too stressed to be at school , signed off with mental health reasons, should be punished by being kept in doors working between the hours of 9-3!!

She even argues with me about the merits of taking him for a walk in the fresh air.

Attendance = more important that mental health. It's a joke.

DD1 gets croup every winter. She coughs and keeps herself awake literally all night. She wouldn’t be capable of going to school as she’s absolutely exhausted after coughing all night. She doesn’t cough in the day. She would be perfectly able to pop into Tesco for some bread.

I did that the other day, the day after DD was sent home with the shits.

She was fine. I took her with me to the supermarket as I had no other option. She was fine and I didn't let her touch anything.

Posts like this make me glad I don't live in the UK with its attendance hysteria.

If I want to keep ds off school for any reason it's fine with the teachers. We're even considering taking him off to travel and homeschool for two months each winter. Lots of parents do it where we live.

Oh, ds was off with a migraine, spent nearly all day sleeping.

He was feeling better around 3pm and I was popping out to get some food for tea, he came with me for a bit of fresh air. how bad a parent an I?

I once had some old dear in M&S ask me why my sons weren't in school on a Tuesday afternoon. I politely advised her that 4YO and 2YO (as they were at the time) are not legally required to attend school. My boys have always been tall and looked older than their age, so by this point I was used to it.

I've taken my eldest out shopping when he was off sick from school. He came out in a rash but was fit and well. Because of school's rules I had to keep him away until it was confirmed non-contagious by the GP. So we went to the GP, then Asda and I got on with all the other shit I still have to do every day that doesn't stop just cos my kids get ill.

My god there are some interfering wankers, aren’t there! I arrived at work, one evening, to a member of staff taking me into a side room to give me a heads up. An arsehole was spreading a rumour that I had a big party when I was off and the street was lined with cars. I had been off for two weeks, with a proper flu and was still coughing like an old smoker, when I returned to work. (I have asthma) I went to my boss and asked here if she heard the rumour. She said she hadn’t, but I still insisted that she looked at my phone, so she could read the details of my neighour’s funeral, which happened when I was off. That’s why there were cars. Honestly, some people just like shit stirring.

WHERE ARE YOU, OP?

Hrm, @AlexanderandPie, the OP, has never come back. Wonder why...🤔

My DC was off last week. GP said he could be contagious so couldn't go to school since children are always on top of and touching each other. But the GP said he could go out to places where he wouldn't be in physical contact with others. So we could have taken him shopping.
We didn't but if we had it would have been in keeping with the advice from his GP.

Agree it depends what's wrong. Fine if recovering from surgery or convalescent.

the OP's gone back shopping

DS got sent home from school for a single incident of D&V at 10am. His 48 hours expired at 10am into day 3. School didn't want him in as the 48th hour had overlapped into the school day. We went to a buggy fit class (perfectly energetic) then into town as I had some errands.

If school don't want a healthy, energetic 4 year old 49 hours after a loose motion, what else am I supposed to do with him?

Agree with others it depends what is wrong and what type of shopping.

I am always being asked why my HE children aren't at school when out and about.

whole lot of scenarios to consider there aren't there?

Popping to shops for milk with no alternative - what's the problem? As long as they don't run up to people and lick their faces or massage all the fresh fruit while they are there with their germy hands.

Going on a trek round the local shopping mall probably not wise.

@JingsMahBucket Tue 01-May-18 12:47:59

Hrm, @AlexanderandPie, the OP, has never come back. Wonder why...🤔

There's about 2.5 hours between OP's post and yours. There could be any number of legitimate reasons why OP hasn't posted. We're not all glued to a phone/pc, you know.