Well, I have a related rant. Our school NURSE won't send them home often! She will for a fever over 100.5, but even if vomiting, she wants us to tell her WHY they are vomiting! "Did she just eat lunch, maybe something didn't set right?" "Did she smell something?".............how the heck should I know? If I tell her they have "the big D".......she wants to know if they had too much milk for breakfast. I don't know, I don't even see them until after breakfast. She also wants to know if I'm SURE they have it, or are just constipated........well, if constipated, that's pretty miserable too, don't you think?
I have this one little girl. NOt from the best family, but she's a pretty nice little thing. She's very active, distractible, but good-hearted and tries most of the time. She has never once asked to go home or see the nurse. Never once. Yet every time I bring her to the nurse, the nurse tells me that she's called the child's mother and the mother says, basically, that the kid is lying or somehow at fault. The kid is making herself cough, deliberately spent the night with a friend with lice so she'd get them, was playing this morning so must be fine now, and on and on. I have told the nurse in private that I don't believe the child is doing any of these things purposely. The child did admit she didn't like school at the beginning of the year, but she is doing much better now. Even does her homework on her own since mom won't help her with it. But the nurse insists on saying to the child with a big frown what her mother said. So today, when she griped at the little one because "Mama said you were playing this morning" (which probably isn't even true as the kids have told me mama doesn't get up with them in the mornings), I told her that I've been teaching a long time and I know when a child doesn't feel well. That this is a good kid and she isn't making it up. That she never even asked to come to the nurse, it was my decision, so they can't say she's trying to go home. That she enjoys the afterschool program, so likely doesn't even want to go home. That her mom needs to BELIEVE her child sometimes. Nurse responds that child's sibling lies. I reiterate that not ALL children lie, and this one is NOT making this illness up!
Can you believe that?
I have this one little girl. NOt from the best family, but she's a pretty nice little thing. She's very active, distractible, but good-hearted and tries most of the time. She has never once asked to go home or see the nurse. Never once. Yet every time I bring her to the nurse, the nurse tells me that she's called the child's mother and the mother says, basically, that the kid is lying or somehow at fault. The kid is making herself cough, deliberately spent the night with a friend with lice so she'd get them, was playing this morning so must be fine now, and on and on. I have told the nurse in private that I don't believe the child is doing any of these things purposely. The child did admit she didn't like school at the beginning of the year, but she is doing much better now. Even does her homework on her own since mom won't help her with it. But the nurse insists on saying to the child with a big frown what her mother said. So today, when she griped at the little one because "Mama said you were playing this morning" (which probably isn't even true as the kids have told me mama doesn't get up with them in the mornings), I told her that I've been teaching a long time and I know when a child doesn't feel well. That this is a good kid and she isn't making it up. That she never even asked to come to the nurse, it was my decision, so they can't say she's trying to go home. That she enjoys the afterschool program, so likely doesn't even want to go home. That her mom needs to BELIEVE her child sometimes. Nurse responds that child's sibling lies. I reiterate that not ALL children lie, and this one is NOT making this illness up!
Can you believe that?
