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

[AlexanderandPie]

Or is this acceptable?

my daughter is off school after a hospital stay at weekend, she went to the park with my mum yesterday to get her some fresh air. She is off school until her appetite builds up now and she has more energy as she has lost weight.

You don't know the full story. My DS was off with aniexty and was with me. Put your nose where it belongs.

Skarossinkplunger

No LA (in England at least) should require parents to register their child as home educated. They are acting outside of the current legislation if so. Some LA's have a voluntary register but it is not mandatory.

EB123 I’m not a legal expert but I can say that in our LA if you take your child out of school you need to write to the LA so the child can be taken off the school roll. If the child remains on the school roll they will
continue to pursue you your child’s attendance. The details are then passed on to the LA. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

that is true but if you never eroll the child to start with you do not need to inform anyone. Its only when they have already been in school they need to deregister.

*enroll

The school are the ones who need to inform the LA of deregisteration not the parent. Then there are parents like myself who have never registered with a school and have no requirement to inform the local authority.

Oh crossed wires about that.

If mine have had an illness thats had them off for a few days, i use a trip to the shops i.e. Ikea for a coffee or Tesco to buy a cake, to test their stamina. If they manage it fine and their interest in things and appetite is back then they're ready to go back to school. If it knocks them out then they're not.

Dc1 vomited at school. It wasn't a bug, he just had a big breakfast and had been jumping around a lot before school! But obviously we had to follow the 48 hour rule...I took him to the park to play.

@TorviBrightspear you were totally right. There were so many posts on the thread that I thought a lot of time had passed. As in, 5 - 6 hours. Thanks for the hand slap. I usually get annoyed when others do the same thing. :)

I'd forgotten the fairly regular 'Why isn't she in school?' 'Because she's three' conversations we had when out with my very tall and talkative pre-school daughter. Even the speech therapist, there to see her older brother, thought she was at least six.

my daughter is home educated so wouldn't be surprised if we got some looks sometimes - not that I notice or care.

There may be all sorts of reasons why a child isn't at school

If they are very infectious, for instance chicken pox just popped up, then they shouldn't be around people.

If they are just off sick for the usual coughs or colds then i wouldn't be surprised to see them at the supermarket. DH is off sick and has walked to the doctors and popped in Sainsbury on the way back for medicine and soup. If it had been ds off with one of us then we would have done the same albeit him on the buggy.

@JingsMahBucket No worries, I've done it myself. It's easy to forget that so little time has passed when you see so many posts. 😊

Family friend asked if I wanted to come shopping, I said sure, her son came along, I obviously asked and she said he's off school sick. So it wasn't just a random child I saw when I was out.

Did you ask her why he was off / with you?

Did you ask what was wrong with him? Did he seem ok to be out shopping?

I don’t get why you started a thread on the internet when you could just have asked your friend ‘oh no is he ok?’ with your mouth like what humans do

As a single parent id have no choice but to take my ds with me unless he was really ill