To think parents should keep their vomiting children off school

[Sweetlifeofyours]

Got a phone call off school to say my child has been vomited on by another child. I got a message from the parent apologising (my child and their child are friends) and saying their child was only sick once at 6am and because they felt fine afterwards they didn’t think it was anything serious.

Now is the countdown I guess to see if my DC gets it and (as usual) spreads it around the house. Fuming to be honest! People are selfish. Is it really that hard to keep your child off school for 1/2 days😡

Fingers crossed your DC doesn't get it. Yanbu I definitely think parents should keep their children off school if they are vomiting or have diarherra. I got really annoyed at a parent at my school once for sending her child into school after vomiting because she "wasn't having her child missing out" on preforming in the Christmas performance and lo and behold my child got it and missed out on things she'd have enjoyed because of course I kept her off. This parent also went round threatening any parent whose child inconvenienced hers, got to love the double standards.

Grim. I remember many years ago (I was a teacher) we had the whole class photo. Two children on the back row vomitted, each onto two children in front of them. Six children with vomit covered clothes and hair. Horrible for them all. So yes, I'm not on favour of parents sending in poorly children. 😷

Yanbu, but I see why some struggle with inflexible workplaces or gig economy type jobs

I doubt that would have happened as my own dc had good attendance

why would they fine someone whose dc was genuinely sick

I meant telling the childs parents obviously lol

Obviously I meant the parent! And tex they should its the least they should do

Yes I have emetophobia too its awful I would be horrified if that happened! Also why was the child sick on her child I understand they couldn't help being sick but surely they could have turned their head the other way so not to get it on them

There is a policy, 48 hours vomit free. It’s not fair to others, I work in a nursery and I’m shocked how many parents send in their obviously sick children. I know it’s hard when you’re a working mum, I am one.

Ok, so my son has a reflux issue and massive problems with his duodenum. Because he gets worked up/anxious and is so scared about the bullies at school he is constantly “being sick”. His sick consists mostly of the bile type of sick, and he can easily eat/drink as normal and just throw up and crack on with his day. We currently have him going through CAHMs because of it, and have tried all sorts to stop it. He’s not doing it on purpose and the school really aren’t helping. Weve had 6 phone calls in the last 3 weeks from school asking us to collect him, despite his CAHMs worker stating he is better to be in school, than go home.
Frankly it’s causing us a great deal of stress and the situation happens to many more families than you will know about.
My son is not actually sick, ill or poorly. He’s just throwing up as a reflex because of a medical condition that there is currently not a lot of cures for. Just something to think about…

If one of my DC were sick overnight or in the morning I would keep them off to allow them to rest and recover for as long as they needed. It might be 1 day, it might be 3 days but it would be 100% based on their needs. If they were well enough to go back to school after 24 hours or less then I dont see any point in keeping them off longer. Germs dont magically disappear after a set 48 hour period.

Except statistically the amount of virus that is shed in stools after 48 hours is much less. So, arguably, yes, the germs do indeed "magically disappear" after 48 hours - that's why you have to wait 48 hours!! 🙄

I work in a school and we regularly get children coming in who tell you they were sick at home. While waiting to be collected on one occasion, one child had diarrhea that I then had to clean up. On another occasion the kid vomited before the register was even finished...turns out he'd been sick all morning at home. Absolutely selfish on the parents part. There is no excuse at all.

Unless your child is immunosuppressed this is very much a first world problem. Maybe the parents didn't know, or underestimated how sick they were. Maybe they have other stuff going on in their lives that made it especially hard for them in the spur of the moment to stay at home. But even if they are feckless repeat offenders who selfishly plough on regardless, you are bloody lucky for this to be one of your big problems. Have a moan if it makes you feel better, but get over it.

My sister brought her 10 year old who had tonsillitis round when I had a 1 year old at home (who caught it, I wish I'd had a go at her at the time)

I was picking my DD up from gymnastics when she was 4, and overheard one of the coaches telling a mum that her DD had complained of feeling sick, the mum replied, "Oh she said that earlier but i sent her any way to see how she went".

Midnight my daughter vomited, she then vomited every 10-20 minutes for the next 20 hours, I came really close to having the take her to A&E, but she was a little super star taking syringes of diluted apple juice and I managed to keep her passing just enough urine, it took her a week to recover, and she is rarely ill so this was extreme.

I was really angry!

The rule is 48 hours since the child last had symptoms (vomiting or diarrhoea), whether it was once or 50 times. It couldn't be clearer.

The rule in our school is 48 hours,we always keep our kids of if they are sick.It really angers me when people send there kids to school sick what could be one vomit for there child could make another child more ill.I remember one year parents sent there kids in sick it took down the whole class our child was ill for a fortnight was terrible.Some real selfish people out there

How very superior!

No concern for freelancers who don’t get sick pay.

What about two of my freelancer friends who are undergoing chemo and are vulnerable to illness?

There was a school in our area that needed to be shut down and deep cleaned recently because of Norovirus. Lots of parents’ wages lost because of it.

You must be be very well off to dismiss these as third world problems. We may all factually be very lucky in our country compared to some, but that doesn’t mean we should throw caution to the wind either.

This is so selfish (not to mention absolutely clueless as to the reason for the rule). People like you are the reason why these viruses spread through schools like wildfire.

My kids school any vomiting you are not allowed in for 48 hours. They had a serious bug this year (entire school had to close for a day due to so many illnesses) and when they reopened, my kids both said they'd felt sick and got sent home (school was sending any kids saying it home, there was like 12 in the office when I got there 😂)

Yes. I work in a daycare and remember an instance when a child had just arrived and vomited all over the floor. His mum was STILL trying to say goodbye to him and leave.

Who sends a child they know to have been physically sick recently to school?

The guy I went out with while at uni had. much younger brother, and he was once off school ill, but the teacher rang his mum to ask her to bring him in for the class photo so he wouldn't miss out on being in it. All well and good, the kids line up, then bang on cue, kiddo is sick right over the child in front. That made for a memorable photo.
Roll on a few years and they could have just photoshopped him in.

I think it’s mostly unfair to the poor child. I’m not fussy about kids going in with sniffles or coughs (providing no temperature or seriously unwell) because if we all kept our kids off for every cold then the schools would be empty from October to springtime.

But sickness bugs are awful. To let them go in and feel so unwell, with a high probability of throwing up in front of their classmates is just wrong.

Sadly germs will always find a way and schools and nurseries are breeding grounds.

Totally agree and would also be livid but everyone does it. Pretty much most people I know do not keep their child off for 48 hours with a tummy upset. I do understand it’s incredibly hard for some parents who are working zero hrs contracts so no work no pay, but I know mostly people who this does not apply to. Covid clearly taught us nothing about the spread of viruses!