To want school to stop sending dc home?

[mollycoddlethem]

So DC in reception.
In the 12 ish weeks they have been there they have been sent home 4 times.
Then I get a pissy letter re their attendance.
The 4 reasons they have been sent home -

1. They were tired on one occasion. Not falling asleep, but just looked a bit tired and wanted to sit and look at books in the reading corner.
2. They had tummy ache. No temperature, no runny poo, no other symptoms. Mentioned twice their tummy hurt. They were fine when they got home and ate an entire school dinner before still being sent home.
3. Sickness bug (completely understand this one)
4. A cough. No temp, other symptoms. Just a cough and complaining about their cough.

In preschool they got sent home perhaps once over the year. Surely schools should not be sending kids home for a cough? Now I lose a days pay because I need to go and collect. I understand that they are very little, but after 2 years of being in preschool and coping with coughs, colds, snotty noses etc I’m sure that DC would have been able to manage another 2 hours at school with a cough. My child can be a bit of a wimp and to be honest if given sympathy they play on it. In the nicest possible way I find that telling them to man up is the best thing to do and to distract them.

You'd think they'd have a sick bay. My schools all did.