Would you say something to school

[Paigeyr]

On ClassDojo app my DS son show updates about what they are doing in reception. Todays one showed circle time and one child sat with everyone had hat, scarf and coat and gloves on during lesson and was sat with a sick bowl on their lap.

would you say something? I don’t get why this child was in school and sat closely with everyone else whilst clearly unwell

School won't share confidential information about other children's health.

The child was probably dressed for collection by their guardian and had the sick bowl there as a precaution while they waited.

I'm sure the staff know what they are doing and wouldn't put themselves or the children at risk. It would be inappropriate of you to complain about this.

I thought that but they were sat with the sick bowl but still taking part in the circle time lesson. They were putting maths cards in the middle so I thought they would take a poorly child out of the lesson

The child had already been with the other children before showing signs of illness anyway.

if he was waiting to be picked up where else should be be? He can’t be left alone if there is a chance he will vomit!

No I wouldn't say anything

Are you sure it wasn't some kind of game? I remember at primary school something to do with putting scarf and gloves on and then cutting up chocolate in a dish or something like that...?

Where would they put the poorly child? Schools don't have spare staff for this. As he was dressed in outdoor clothes, they were obviously waiting for him to be collected.

No. Don't be that parent.

You don't have a clue what was going on. And school won't tell you either. Nor should they.

I've given a child a sick bowl when I don't think there's a chance of them being sick to stop them telling me that they feel sick.

I haven't the time to listen to it. It has the added bonus of other children then feeling a bit sorry for them so they can tell them about it instead.

It makes them feel like you have listened.

As above. The child had already interacted with the other children, he/she was dressed ready for collection and had a bowl as a precaution. Taking part in the lesson could possibly distract him/her from his/her misery.

Sometimes children say they feel sick when they are actually anxious, hungry, upset or excited. Teachers are pretty good at spotting if it's any of these reasons or they are actually ill.
When I think it's the first four options I will provide a sick bowl.

There's one thing that will definitely happen after this phone call.

There won't be any more lovely photos of the children on your dojo. She won't bother doing that again.

And if you ever volunteer to go on a trip or help out when they are making bread, your name definitely won't be pulled from the hat.

As you will have made it clear that you are a person who looks for faults.

I hope you never travel more then ten minutes from school as if your child is ever ill they will be straight on the phone demanding you collect them instantly having removed them from the classroom faster than the speed of light.

No idea what your AIBU is OP but no, I absolutely would not contact the school over this. What would you like them to do? Leave the poorly child alone? Take the TA out of class all morning/afternoon to sit with them?
Parents often get extremely cross with the school when they are called to collect their child and frequently can take a couple of hours to arrive.
Parents very often send their children in, against guidance, when they have been sick the previous day/evening as the parent wants to get back to work. Some times the child will tell the teachers that and the parents are called to take them home, they might be given a bowl as a precaution.
There are do many possible scenarios.
When this picture was taken you have no idea of the situation. School, quite rightly, won’t tell you either. Leave the school to cope as best they can.

No I wouldn't say anything.

Contrary to the above posts, as a teacher I would want you to email in.
Schools are short staffed but not that short staffed. They can and should be able to put the child somewhere else (the office staff usually also act as first aiders). There is a big difference in infectiousness levels between a child who feels sick, and active vomit droplets. It's the quickest way to take out a whole class.
Schools have a duty of care to pupils and to their staff, they can't throw their hands up and ignore health and wellbeing and very basic infection control.
At the very least a vomiting child should be sat away from the other children.
Unfortunately SLT don't listen to us. They do listen to parental complaints.

What would you say? And to what end?

@Mamansparkles thanks for your reply. That was my thinking. If the child was actually physically sick in to the bowl then they are sat next to two other children very close and others around them. The TA was taking the photo of the class and teacher other side of class room so not near them

The child was off school today so was definitely unwell. The photo was taken yesterday

Not necessarily a sick bowl. There was an autistic child in my DC's class who used to take a small colander everywhere as it was a comfort object. Possibly something similar?

Yes that’s grim/ a kid with noro vomiting in front of everyone else?

It was definitely one. One of those brown disposable ones

This. We don’t know any of the circumstances that led to this op, one thing that I will guarantee though is that the staff were definitely not trying to infect other children with a possible illness. I’d consider this to be a very rare occurrence, you have no idea how long or little the child was sat there for and presumably your child is fine. Don’t be a dick and complain unless you want your child excluded from future photos etc as he’s the one with the moany mum. If there was an issue with what the teachers decided to do, they wouldn’t have been happy putting up public photos of it

That was a bit of a leap, wasn’t it?

Just realised it says ‘todays one’ in my OP as it was posted today but the photo was taken yesterday as it says ‘yesterday we…’. And today the child was off poorly