24 hour fever free rule for school anyone??

[Sandcass]

One thing nobody here has mentioned, wouldn't you rather have your child with you when they're sick? I want to be the one with my child when they don't feel good, taking care of them and watching over them. ( and babying them if they need it )

No job is more important than being there for your child.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I agree with keeping a child home when they are sick with a fever, etc.

I do want to comment on a child ending up at school, sick, after feeling that way at home before school. Of course it depends on the child, but if I kept one of my kids home every time he complained of not feeling well he'd be home as often as he'd be at school. And yes, there were times that a nurse would call and say, "Ben said that he wasn't feeling well this morning before coming to school" and I'd have to explain that he was always complaining. Mainly because he didn't want to wake up and go to school. Sometimes he really would be sick--the boy who cried wolf.

There's also been times when the nurse will call and say that he's in the health room. I don't run in right away to pick him up (I do if there's a fever or the nurse things that he's really sick) and will suggest that he go back to class. I do talk to him on the phone and can usually tell if he's really sick. I might sound heartless, but I've learned when to react and when not to with him.

With my 12yo, if he complains about being sick I believe him right away and he stays home if he says he needs to. He's rarely sick and doesn't want to miss school and have work to make up. So if he says he needs to stay home or that I need to pick him up from school I do that.

 

[yeartolate]

Actually, I'm quite okay with the policy, though it is a bit of a hassle! I would NEVER send a sick child to school and I appreciate them stopping others from doing so. We've had to get a doctors note once this year and it's fine by me. As many puking sick children as I've seen at that school this year I just hope the policy is helping to keep the teachers from having to deal with that. I wouldn't want to deal with it and I don't think the teachers should have to!

I was thinking of needing a doctors not for every illness. I don't think your local pediatrician even wants the kids that often. (if they have practices as busy as ours)

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

I drive a school bus for the school district that my kids are in. One day I stopped to pick up a little girl and she is throwing up on the sidewalk. I told her that she couldn't get on like that and sent her back into the house. Ten minutes later I was at school dropping off the other kids and there she is, getting out of her mothers car to go to school!

Our school has a very strict attendance policy, so that means that more kids are going to school sick, so they don't miss too many days.

When my kids are sick, they stay home!

Sixteen years of driving has probably exposed me to everything. I spray the inside of the bus with Lysol often.

 

[HunnyPots]

24 hour fever rule? Are you kidding?? My DS's high school pretty much has the rule that you come no matter what and stay all day unless you're dead!
Last Friday, DS went to school feeling a little tired and out of sorts but thought he'd be fine. Well, he started throwing up during first period and threw up two more times before he was allowed to go to the nurse! THEN the idiot nurse calls me and says, "You know we've had a lot of this and we'd really prefer they stay in school. If you bring him some Pepto and Tylenol it would probably help." GEEZ! NO WONDER THEY'VE HAD A LOT OF IT GOING AROUND!!! Needless to say, I picked up my son within a few minutes and kept him home.
I know this is not exactly pertaining to the original post but I'm just saying that I'd be thrilled if our school had a policy in place to prevent the spread of illness. Or maybe just a school nurse that had a clue about how stomach viruses spread!
OP: Hope your DD is feeling better soon!

 

[Marseeya]

I agree with keeping a child home when they are sick with a fever, etc.

I do want to comment on a child ending up at school, sick, after feeling that way at home before school. Of course it depends on the child, but if I kept one of my kids home every time he complained of not feeling well he'd be home as often as he'd be at school. And yes, there were times that a nurse would call and say, "Ben said that he wasn't feeling well this morning before coming to school" and I'd have to explain that he was always complaining. Mainly because he didn't want to wake up and go to school. Sometimes he really would be sick--the boy who cried wolf.

There's also been times when the nurse will call and say that he's in the health room. I don't run in right away to pick him up (I do if there's a fever or the nurse things that he's really sick) and will suggest that he go back to class. I do talk to him on the phone and can usually tell if he's really sick. I might sound heartless, but I've learned when to react and when not to with him.

With my 12yo, if he complains about being sick I believe him right away and he stays home if he says he needs to. He's rarely sick and doesn't want to miss school and have work to make up. So if he says he needs to stay home or that I need to pick him up from school I do that.

My two kids are the same way. DD tries to get out of school in any way possible, so she constantly complains about something being wrong with her. DS, on the other hand, never wants to admit to being sick, so I have to watch for the symptoms myself.