dd(5) has been off school all this week with a viral cough/cold she picked up at a school (a lot of kids have been off with it in the past week or so). She's also had ear ache as it now appears she has glue ear and the cold has made it worse and painful, causing her to sleep badly. Anyway today she is much better, very much more herself today, no fever, less coughing just in need of a day at home to regain her energy and snooze if needs be. So having dropped ds off we went into the school office to say she wouldn't be in today but probably tomorrow.
As we were leaving we were called into her classroom by the TA to pick up some craft bits to make a calendar at home as they had done in class yesterday. While we headed for the car some of her friends were just arriving and obviously queried why she wasn't in uniform and the mothers pulled their kids away when I said she'd had this virus.
Have I committed a huge faux pas or did they overreact ? We hadn't intended to run into anyone this morning although we did also attend ds' play performance last night as otherwise we'd have missed it and we had to ferry ds anyway.