To not pick my child up from school??

[mosschops30]

dd's high school have just phoned to say she's feeling a bit sick and wants to come home.

To which I replied 'and she seems to do this regularly when I have a day off because she knows I can come and get her'!

I asked for her to give it an hour and she still feels sick then to ring me again.
When I asked if she was vomiting they sayd 'no but her eyes look red'!!! WTF!!

So AIBU???

YANBU - she's old enough to cope with feeling 'a bit sick', and if there seems to be a correlation with your days off, I think it sounds a bit

YANBU. You would get her home and she would run amok!

yanbu

this happens to me if I disclose too much about my plans for any given day

(then I feel a bit bad though)

Thats my opinion, but the school make you feel like the worst parent in the world because you wont rush out and pick up your child!!
IMHO they need to learn that you cant just come home for reasons like that and when you start working it doesnt wash. If you said that when I was at school it was a case of 'well you havent been sick so get back to class and pull yourself together'!

I think asking them to re-check on her in an hour is acceptable just wondered what the mnetters though?

The school was right to call you and you're right to say no. If you do collect her I would insist that she goes to bed all day with no TV!

yanbu. I wish I had the guts to tellt he school no! I've ahd to bring dd home for some silly things. I wonder if they jsut have to call to cover their own backs.

This used to happen to me all the time too, coinciding with my days off. I made it quite clear that I would never come unless it was an emergency. If son said he had been 'sick', an adult would have to have witnessed it. To him being 'sick' meant spitting in the toilet for a bit. The times I've pitched up at the school to see him smirking at me from the office!
Grrr!

You've done the right thing.

Next time, tell her you're going to for the day.

I think the raincheck is a good idea.

And to be a little quiet about your day 'off' is a god idea also as mysterymoniker suggests.

I bet you're up to your eyeballs at home and as soon as your DD would come home she's be bouncing on the sofas (if she's like my DD she would be).

My DD knows that if she says she's not feeling well now that she can talk to me on the phone and ask me to come and collect her as she was poorly a few weeks back, and there were a few of them in the class out sick with the vomiting bug, so they were being careful.

I've asked the teacher to let her put her head down on her desk now and to call me if she doesn't improve!

Very hard unless you know the school. Dd's school refused to ring me even when she had a high fever. But sounds like your school is fussier.

YANBU
DS did this last November
I drove 30mins to get there stuck in traffic
When he got in the car I just knew he was messing and did`nt want to do french at school which was his next lesson

I marched him right back in to the teacher in front of his mates and told the teacher

He has never done it since

YANBU.