Sending child to school with strep symptoms..

[cherryscone]

Hello,

Just wanting some perspective on this. In my child's school the class have done their Christmas performance and one child had clear sore throat, muscle aches, sneezing, washed out and fever.

Parent had admitted they'd been to doctors and received penicillin for this but didn't want child to miss performance. Am I right in thinking they're massively in the wrong for this?

Thank fully my DS is fine and the parents are split between this being okay and others not agreeing.

What's your view?

Massively irresponsible.

The school should have sent the child straight back home. They have a duty of care to all students. They'd most probably have been fuming with the parent for sending them in so ill.

Here it is because they can't miss out on anything. Kid will be off school day before and day after whatever is going on but sent to school on the day of the nice thing. Same with birthday parties. Off school before party, Saturday comes and kid is at the party looking ill.

Yes, I agree sometimes it’s about not wanting the kid at home rather than not wanting the kid to miss out.

DC2 caught a vomiting bug at school last year, but I still had to take him on the school run for other DC as he wasn’t old enough to stay home alone. Ordinary school day, no special events scheduled.

So I was stood at the school gate explaining to DC2’s teacher why DC2 wasn’t going in, when another child walked up, and said “I’ve been sick this morning but mum said I had to come to school anyway”. Teacher wasn’t impressed. Told the child that they couldn’t go in and took them straight off to the school office.

Why would you expose other children by taking them anywhere with your child who has winter vomiting bug?

Children can't return to school until 48 hours have passed since very last episode of diarrhea or vomiting. This is such an incredibly stupid thing to do.

I'm assuming this is made up.

The NHS advice is not to send child to school with a fever (no matter what the Illness).

I doubt it. Some parents are arseholes, although some parents have to work and have no other childcare options so send the kids in to school anyway. I can completely believe there would be kids in school within infectious periods. Lots of kids went into school with covid and passed that round like pass the parcel too!

Remember they are contagious just before symptoms occur so it's likely it spread before the child showed illness.

Was speaking about strap a to a gp yesterday, cases are no different to 2016/2017 and it tends to run in 3-4 year cycles anyway, he isn't impressed by the media hype - yes clearly emphasise when urgent medical care is needed but most children have mild illness and always have done.

Agree with this wholeheartedly and sadly there is more than one parent who does this and it is a majority I have found.

Absolutely no fucks given for their kid or anyone else’s for that matter- let alone teaching staff or anyone in the school community who may immune compromised.

My eldest child has been off school the past week feeling incredibly unwell with Strep A symptoms and my child was given antibiotics/ swabs taken. GP said it was highly likely that my eldest child has it.

As a precaution, I kept off youngest child who is at a different school, but had a sore throat and also felt unwell albeit mildly in comparison to eldest child .

Just not fair to them or to anyone and really is so selfish of people but they do not care and thus this will never change.

The helpline have said that even if still symptomatic after 24 hours of antinlbiitics, they are no longer contagious . Still wouldn't send mine in though

Poor child. It doesn't sound as though the parents cared that their own child was unwell, but rather that they got their photo opportunity. It's also a shitty thing to do, to send them along to cough and sneeze over other children, regardless of the rules around antibiotics.