Do your school actually enforce the 48 hr after D or V rule ???

[IllegallyBrunette]

I know most schools now have a policy of a child not attending school until they have been clear of D&V for 48 hours, but wondered if anyone has a school that actually enforces it and would turn a parent and child away if they knew the time hadn't elapsed ??

I'm asking because yesterday Ds came home and said 'B was sick in the playground today'. I asked him if she'd been sick because she was coughing or if she was just suddenyl sick, and he said she was just suddenly sick.
Dd1 confirmed this.

So, we get to school today for the nativity performance and girl B is there, and so is her mum.

Apparently someone did mention it to the teacher but the girl wasn't sent home again.

The school obviously know that she was sick only yesterday afternoon though.

My ds school does thankfully. I remember a few years ago the head refused a child on a school trip because he had been sick the day before.
The school absence phone message states not to send a child in who has had a bout of sickness or diarroea in 48 hours.
The school takes a hard stance on this because a few years back half the staff and some 50 odd children were off sick because parents were sending their children before they had fully recovered.

I have no idea if DS school enforces it but I think that advice is now out of date unless your work involves food preparation. I cannot find the link to the public health announcement and of course I may be wrong.
But I think the advice (for adults to be fair) was something along the lines go back to work/school once symptoms have cleared unless work involves preparation of food and then you have to wait 48 hours.

God knows why our school has the rule if they aren't going to enforce it.

I thought it was still 48 hours, especially at the moment because of the winter vomitting bug.

I think it should be 48 hours anyway.

Last year I had the bug, stopped vomitting at around 6am xmas day morning. My brother and his gf visted the next afternoon and she caught it.

Our school has the 48 hour rule but it would be imposible to enforce unless the child has been sick during school hours.

Children are often sent in the day after a tummy bug. The school asks parents to be reasonable but many are not. Last year a child was vomiting in the car park at the end of the day but was in school the next day. The head rang the parents and they denied the child had been sick even though it had been witnessed by several parents and a member of staff!

As a headteacher, our school ABSOLUTELY enforce this rule. Public health insist on this and will investigate any school which doesn't particularly if this results in an epidemic which I have seen in the past. Speak with your head and insist that this is enforced as potentially it will effect all the children, probably over Christmas which is not what we mums want.

The nursery where I worked, and my last two schools have all enforced the rule, even if it meant turning parents away from the door/playground.

It's so dependent on the parents though isn't it? The school can't keep track of what kids are off school with. A girl in dd's class was sick in the playground and sent home and I saw her mum dropping her in the next morning and I asked her if her dd hadn't been sick the day before and she said 'oh, it's only a tummy bug, she'll be ok.' Within that week almost half of dd's class came down with it. I'm not saying that that particular girl 'caused' it but it certainly wouldn't have helped.

The school do have a policy by the way, they sent home a load of information on it a week or so ago.

Imaginary friend, if I had known that a child had thrown up in the playground, I would have sent them home if they turned up.

But yes, you're right, schools do rely on parents to be public spirited, and have the best interests of their child at heart .

She should've been sent home. I don't think the teacher knew about the episode the day before though because dd said it was one of the dinner ladies who looked after the sick girl and there was a supply teacher in the class that day.

Ah - that's a bit trickier then. Parent was definitely at fault then (and the school for not making sure that the supply teacher knew the protocol).

Our school inforce this rule. The secretary has a note book which highlights who's been off with what excuse and then checks if they've been sick and back before 48hours. If the child has come back too early they are put in the medical room until someone comes to collect them. This does rely on the parents giving the correct excuse but I don't think many people know of the little brown book.

Our school enforces it. Dd was sent home after being sick at school and her class teacher said as we left, well we may or may not see you tomorrw. Cue school nurse with look on horror on her face saying loudly no Mrs Sodor we won;t be seeing her tomorrow not until 48 hours after etc.

I get so MAAAAD about this.

The other day a mother was dropping off her dd, and the teacher said that she had been unwell the previous afternoon and she didn't think she should be in school. The mother just stood her ground and said her dd was definitely coming in. The child was whey-faced and clinging to her mother, but the latter clearly had to get off to work and wouldn't budge.

The teacher said that if the child didn't improve she would be calling her and expect her to come and collect her straightaway, and that the school could not care for sick children.

I understand people have to work, but it's not acceptable to inflict illness on the whole class.

I am still reeling from the time someone brought their child into school WRAPPED IN A BLANKET!! The teacher barred the door and ordered the dad to leave at once.

My kids school doesn't enforce the rule, but my dps school will send kids hom again but his is SN so soime quite vunerable kids there . Most of his parents keep them off anyway as one thing often leads to another

I wish my school would on the last day of term somebody sent in a child who had vomited all night. Guess what we did the first week of the holidays

fircone, that's just awful, a child wrapped in a blanket.