To be really really fucked off at the people who are sending their kids back into school within hours of being sick?

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Know of at least 2 parents who have done this in dcs class!

ANd Neither of them work, so no excuses there....

Its just nto fair that my dcs are goign to be exposed and probably catch this because poeple want kids out from under their feet. becos the children 'feel better'?

what about the fact they are still contagious, ffs

YANBU. They should keep the little mites at home. There's no excuse. A sick child should be at home eating ice cream and watching tv.

NOROVIRUS! THEY SHOULD BE ISOLATED FOR 48 HOURS!!!

lol - okay that was a mild over reaction...

Dabbles give them a copy of this or ask the scool to put out a letter with it on.

ooh that is an interesting leaflet, thanks!

YANBU....its a pain in the arse when kids spread germs...because then your kid gets and passes it round to every fecker in the house....they shoul be made to stay off from 24 to 48 hours regarding the illness

How quickly are they sending them back then ?
Ds was sick sunday evening and all night sunday. He was quite out of sorts on monday. Tuesday morning he seemed fine. He asked to go to nursery on wed. I sent him.

the next day!

(as in, "oh dc was vomiting all day yesterday, but are fine now, i mean they ate breakfast..., so are back in school today!" grrr)

yanbu
whether you work or not is beside the point imo. if your child is ill it is mum/dad they need. also why should the taechers have to be nursemaids.

I SO know how you feel.

We had this last term - so many children were getting sick and there were parents who would stand and say "X was not well yesterday and threw up last night but is OK today so I brought him in">

I wrote to the head and she sent out a note and I then printed off that HPA thingie and gave it to the head.

And this week one of the same Mums had another DS who was ill - not himself at nursery all morning. She picked him up and he wasn't well at home - she brought him to school to pick up her older 2 (when she knew full well I pass her door and could easily have dropped them off) and the hung around in playground with him crying as he wanted to go home. He threw up that evening and was back at school next morning as "he seems OK although he wouldn't eat breakfast". Makes me so mad.

Just to put the other side, my ds is a chamption vomiter, who pukes every time he gets mildly unwell (cold etc) or eats something too spicy, or has a minor playground bump, or sometimes just for no detectable reason at all.

He's always fine the following morning, and neither of his sisters ever catch anything from him, so it's not a contagious puking bug, just his reaction to anything from over-excitement to over-tiredness. If I kept him off school for 48 hours every time he'd thrown up, I'd have the Educational Welfare people knocking on my door.

Ds2 (5yrs) has a letter from the Paed advising the school to ignore vomiting unless it's due to illness. He has a tendency to get himself worked up until he throws up.

Otherwise I always follow the school's 48hr rule, even if whichever ds it is feels much better 5 minutes after being sick.