Comments on: Too Sick for School? http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/ Parenting, Politics and News for the Perfectly Challenged Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:45:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jessica Carlson http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3408 Jessica Carlson Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:46:03 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3408 J, you said, "Oh, and around here, the schools don’t get money for the kids on days when they’re home sick. So they want the kids there unless they’re REALLY sick." Well, that seems like a potential public health hazard, doesn't it? J, you said, “Oh, and around here, the schools don’t get money for the kids on days when they’re home sick. So they want the kids there unless they’re REALLY sick.”

Well, that seems like a potential public health hazard, doesn’t it?

]]> By: J http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3406 J Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:41:20 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3406 I'll have to wait and see on this one. So far, Maya is 10, 5th grade. She has never lied to stay home. I kept her home one day last week when her only symptom was that she felt queasy. Should I have sent her? Maybe. But she never cries wolf, and I feel that that's worth something. Also, it's easy for me, because I work from home, so having her here is no big deal. I don't have to take a day off or anything. If I were still going into the office, I might have made her go, unless she barfed. But High School, yeah, that's different. That's when they're more likely to stay home and goof off all day, maybe meet up with some friends. I don't know. I never did that kind of stuff, and I want to trust my child. I'll have to wait and see how it is when the time comes. Oh, and around here, the schools don't get money for the kids on days when they're home sick. So they want the kids there unless they're REALLY sick. I’ll have to wait and see on this one. So far, Maya is 10, 5th grade. She has never lied to stay home. I kept her home one day last week when her only symptom was that she felt queasy. Should I have sent her? Maybe. But she never cries wolf, and I feel that that’s worth something. Also, it’s easy for me, because I work from home, so having her here is no big deal. I don’t have to take a day off or anything. If I were still going into the office, I might have made her go, unless she barfed.

But High School, yeah, that’s different. That’s when they’re more likely to stay home and goof off all day, maybe meet up with some friends. I don’t know. I never did that kind of stuff, and I want to trust my child. I’ll have to wait and see how it is when the time comes.

Oh, and around here, the schools don’t get money for the kids on days when they’re home sick. So they want the kids there unless they’re REALLY sick.

]]> By: Jessica Carlson http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3383 Jessica Carlson Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:43:00 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3383 Amy, you've made a story about green snot charming. How do you do that? Anyway, I think you have to be careful with younger kids because they don't practise good hygiene (although I don't know where a freshman's hands have been either!) and little ones tend to spread germs more readily. In high school, if I was able to get up without falling down, I was off to school. My parents were totally unsympathetic until my sister was home from college one year and broke her leg during a dumb college prank and some beer. She came home and told my P's that she had broken her leg and they called her a liar because they thought she was trying to get out of cleaning the house for a party my parents had planned. Well she vacuumed. She did fall. She did go to the hospital and sure enough -- leg was broken. The following year my parents were always very concerned and feeling my head to see if I had a fever. Amy, you’ve made a story about green snot charming. How do you do that?

Anyway, I think you have to be careful with younger kids because they don’t practise good hygiene (although I don’t know where a freshman’s hands have been either!) and little ones tend to spread germs more readily.

In high school, if I was able to get up without falling down, I was off to school. My parents were totally unsympathetic until my sister was home from college one year and broke her leg during a dumb college prank and some beer. She came home and told my P’s that she had broken her leg and they called her a liar because they thought she was trying to get out of cleaning the house for a party my parents had planned. Well she vacuumed. She did fall. She did go to the hospital and sure enough — leg was broken.

The following year my parents were always very concerned and feeling my head to see if I had a fever.

]]> By: Cristina http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3380 Cristina Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:49:03 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3380 Since my son hasn't entered daycare yet, I haven't had to deal with this (yet). I don't look forward to it at all. I know he's going to be sick all the time and that my husband and I will be sick all the time. But we'll all be pushing through regardless...that is, unless we have green snot. And then I guess we'll be staying home. Since my son hasn’t entered daycare yet, I haven’t had to deal with this (yet). I don’t look forward to it at all. I know he’s going to be sick all the time and that my husband and I will be sick all the time. But we’ll all be pushing through regardless…that is, unless we have green snot. And then I guess we’ll be staying home.

]]> By: Gina http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3372 Gina Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:56:15 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/09/27/too-sick-for-school/#comment-3372 I'm still in the preschool stage, so there is no telling what I will do with my son when he gets older. But I do remember parents who forced me to go to school unless there was some serious vomiting going on. I chalk that up to having a nurse as a mother, who knew what being really sick was all about and had zero pity for my sister and me. I’m still in the preschool stage, so there is no telling what I will do with my son when he gets older.

But I do remember parents who forced me to go to school unless there was some serious vomiting going on. I chalk that up to having a nurse as a mother, who knew what being really sick was all about and had zero pity for my sister and me.

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