Send to school or not?

[emkana]

Ds is four and in reception, only attends mornings.

Last weekend he started to be ill, slept all day Sunday, at home Monday, seemed to be getting better so back at school Tuesday and Wednesday. Went downhill again, took him to GP Thursday - chest infection, on AB's. He's still coughing a bit, but hasn't had a temperature for days, AB's will finish Tuesday.

School or not?

If he gets up as per normal in the morning Id def send him Although my 2 st school pretend to be better as they hate missing school. The cough will last quite a while I tink the temprature is a good sign the infection is going.

I guess I'm a bit late now, but I would have said if he's ok in himself, send him - if children are kept off every time they have a cough, some would never be in school! However, if he doesn't cope today - comes home particularly tired/grumpy/not himself, then keep him off tomorrow.

As an ex-teacher, I always felt very sorry for those children who were obviously feeling dreadful but had been brought into school. Those with the tail end of a cold/cough were generally fine - it was the ones there who were absolutely full of cold. I was always worried about phoning the parents as they'd obviously felt that the child was ok when they so obviously weren't.