To want parents of poorly children to keep them home on the lead up to Christmas?!

[Patterpat]

So one of the parents has announced that her child has been sent home every day from school this week with a temperature and generally unwell ‘as the calpol must of worn off!’, the mum has been at home all week so not been at work. She’s also said about how she’s been shouting stuff in her sleep ‘because she’s been that poorly!’ A load of them from their class have not been in yesterday and missing the last day today so it’s obviously spreading.
Normally this stuff wouldn’t bug me as much, but I just feel like if DC are now poorly Christmas Day I’ll be really miffed off if it could have potentially been avoided!

I agree with you, I’d far rather not have poorly kids over Christmas! But I suppose the flip side is that if both parents are working then it’s not as easy as just keeping the kids off and depending on where they work it could be difficult to take a week off.

Tbh, most bugs are infectious during the incubation period so it's unlikely to make any real difference. Kids catch everything off each other and the only real way to stop it is immunity.

Yeah it sucks. But it's the inevitable consequence of over zealous attendance demands and the rounds of snotty letters and attendance officer visits if you fall below par.

I would respond on the group with some passive aggression.

I still resent the mum who sent her kids to nursery with hand foot and mouth and then mine picked it up. It’s been 12 years

Hand, foot and mouth is rife - by the time one kid begins to show signs of fevers and blisters that makes it distinct form the usual sniffles that precede it, many other kids in the same setting are already brewing it and passing it on.

That is really shitty. You don’t knowingly send unwell, contagious kids into school, full stop.

It’s shitty for the kids too - surely they need to be in bed resting, not at school?

Or is this parent’s “me time” the be all and end all?

Does she not even take the hint when the school sends said child home?

I agree with a PP this is the result of the ridiculous attendance expectations and the sanctioned government list of when to send your children in as well

hand foot and mouth for example has no quarantine period at all

thay said once it is in there is no going back and whatever it is spreads quickly.

DS got a virus a month ago (and trust me he doesn’t go on when ill) and it spread fast

Or is this parent’s “me time” the be all and end all?

It's more likely to be parents needing to work 🤷🏼‍♀️

Sorry, I've just read that the parent was at home.

We have a parent who sends really aggressive messages on the class WhatsApp every time her kids gets a sniffle. She blames parents for not keeping kids of school even when they just have a cold.

Completely agree children should be kept off if they are unwell however, schools are constantly having a go about attendance so parents can't win!