Sending your kids to school

[Fatasfook]

If they have a bug. Why the fuck do people do this. Surely if your kid is obviously ill with a bug you keep them at home?

Teachers must have immune systems of steel.

Dd was ill a couple of weeks ago, just a virus but he was running a fever, very sleepy and just miserable so I kept him home, he still wasn’t right the next day so kept him home again and I had the pastoral worker ring me to see when he would be back in
They told me to give Calpol and send him in, I’m a HCP (which they know) so I refused and told them he would be back when I decided he was well enough.

*sorry DS

Sometimes it's the school’s attitude to attendance.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30143394

I've seen some awful advice given out by current school based on this leaflet ^^.

Last school had really bad ofsted- they were under pressure with attendance figures which weren't bad and had new polices on back of that.

They got very difficult about absences - just as serval big employers brought in really strict sickness polices - and by Christmas play one third of the teacher staff were off sick and two entire classes worth of children with winter vomiting bug with many more having had it already.

I think they’d been a lot of well you haven’t been sick yet or only a little so well chance it – with lots of children then being sick in the classrooms and thus spreading it round.

They'd never had such bad attendance figures.

Head seemed very relived to be able to go back to their previous attitude of common sense.

I've been to 2 separate parties with chicken poxy kids.

One I didn't know until after (the mum swore she didn't know but looking back the kid was clearly unwell and also very wrapped up which I did think was stange)

The other party I made my excuses and left. A cousin who was "probably not contagious anymore" had the pox. I had a 5mo and I've never had it myself!

Actually at least one parent claimed she'd rung school to say her child was feeling sick - before entire school was infected- and was told to send them in anyway and they'd ring if child was sick.

Which may be why so many probably many chanced it to start with.

Ah yes, the winter before last a vomiting bug went round the school. Out of a school of 250 kids nearly 100 kids caught it and quite a few teachers as well. The school ended up having to get a specialist cleaning company in the disinfect the whole school to try and stop the spread.
All 3 of mine caught it, that was not a fun week in our house.

@CandyCreeper what kind of bug?? I can't believe no one else has jumped on this... a v and d bug? If so, what was so important that your LO had to go in to school to infect others? I'm on day three off work looking after my DS after he picked up a v and d bug.

There has to be a choice D&V is a straight 48 hours away form the last time they visit a toilet for diahorrea or vomiting

@hughjackmanswife agree 100% at home here for 3 days so far too.