School sick child policy

[Twinkles6892]

My elementary/middle school wouldn't send us home unless our temp was up over a hundred. You could be throwing up but if your temp wasn't high enough, you were spending the rest of the day in class. Needless to say I never went to the nurse because it just wasn't worth it, since I rarely run a temp

Me too, I always bypass the stupid temperature crazed woman and call my mom. They really don't dare to say anything to my mom, if I don't feel well, I don't feel well. They don't need a fever to prove that.

 

[the kabuki]

Personally, I'd rather have the school err on the side of caution and call me if my child is saying he doesn't feel well and be able to go down and see for myself rather than have him be sick all day in school and not be told

 

[Jennifer S]

Personally, I'd rather have the school err on the side of caution and call me if my child is saying he doesn't feel well and be able to go down and see for myself rather than have him be sick all day in school and not be told

ITA with that!! Wonder what ever happened with the OP. How was your daughter later?

 

[krcit]

Ughh, one of my biggest pet peeve is parents who send their sick child to school/b-day party/ activity!! I can't tell you how many times I've been somewhere and a parent will say to me "Oh, Susie was up throwing up last night but seemed fine this morning and wanted to come" I get so mad-it's not fair to the sick kid or the others that they may infect. I always say some thing like"Oh, well, I guess I know who to call if/when my child gets sick" Just the other day a mom said to me "Oh, Steve had a 101 this morning but insisted on coming to school" Who is the parent????

 

[Stephieann]

I'm assuming your dd told them that her throat hurt and she wasn't feeling well. I'm not sure why the school would be at fault. I'd prefer for the school to call and let me know if dd is sick and let me make the decision instead of them doing it.

no dd is 4 and they have a RN at their school. the teacher said her throat was red and yadda yadda yadda.


UPDATE!!!!!

WE WENT TO THE DOCTOR. NOT A THING WRONG WITH DD!!!

 

[Daxx]

We don't have a nurse in our school, so it's up to the individual teacher to make the call on whether a child should go home or not. I usually wait a while after the child tells me they're sick ... just to "monitor" how sick they actually are. You'd be amazed at how some perk up at the sound of "We're watching a video for Religion class today!"

 

[Jennifer S]

no dd is 4

You probably should have mentioned that in your original post.

 

[delilah]

Our school's official policy is a fever of 100.5. On the other hand, my son is one who will work himself up to the point of emesis. He might not be sick at all, but, he will run around after lunch either inside or on the playground, then puke. The school called me once because of this. I was at work, and paged out of a patient's room, and went to pick him up. I looked him over, took his temperature. I had a full schedule of patient's to see, so he bounced around the office all afternoon, happy as a lark, full of vim and vigor. Unfortunately, I am a doctor, and there are sick people in my office. You guessed it. He caught something from somebody in my office.

Now, the school secretary has him figured out. If he pukes after lunch, she has him lie down in the office for a while before she calls me. If he answers the question about how he is feeling with a discussion about watching the fish in the tank, she knows he is probably ok, and sends him back to class.

 

[teacherforhi]

My school doesn't have an official policy.

I do get tired of the parents that send their child to school knowing that the child is sick, but just hope they'll feel better later in the morning. What are they supposed to do while they're waiting to feel better?

About three years ago, we had a flu epidemic going through our school. I was out for a week, my interpreter was out for the following week. Then one of my students came to school feeling so bad he couldn't lift his head off his desk. I called his mother who said she couldn't come pick him up because too many people had already called in because their children were sick. Now that should have been a clue, shouldn't it?

The mother asked me to call the grandmother to see if she would come pick up the child. Grandmother said she didn't feel well and didn't want to come out and wanted me to call the mother back. I'd finally had enough. Both of these people knew that the child was sick and chose to send him to school anyway because he was an inconvenience to them.

I informed the grandmother that she could call her daughter and they could duke it out between them, but that I was waiting thirty minutes and my next phone call would be to DSS and the child's father (parents were divorced). It was probably the wrong thing to do, but I am not a baby-sitting service and I think that most sitters would have refused to take the child in that condition.

In the end, the mother showed up fifteen minutes later and he was out for the next nine days. I'm probably lucky I didn't have to fight that same battle for every one of those days.

 

[aprilgail2]

I don't know the school policy but as of Dec last year they are WELL aware of MY policy...I am to be called if she so much as goes down with a knee scrape and I will be the one that decides if she stays or comes home. Last year she had strep on and off (Mostly ON) for 6 months prior to having her tonsils out and one day she comes home and she is burning up, she is 104.5 getting off the bus...she tells me that she went tothe nurse at lunchtime and the nurse felt her head, didn't even take her temp and said "you are fine. go back to class".....well she said she spent the rest of the day wit her head on the desk and she felt like crying she was so sick....my daughter was 5 last year, she should have been sent home hours before school ended....and to top it off as soon as she got home I looked in her mouth and it was full of red dots and she has white pus pockets on her tonsils....well she sat in that class room for an extra 3 hours with strep throat that she should not have even been there exposingothers to it...My daughter has any kind of fever I keep her home, breathing problems I keep her home....she missed over 30 days of school last year so I am NOT a parent that sends their kid to school sick and she actually WAS sick on and off most of the year so there was no reason for that nurse not to send that poor kid home! I was up at the school the next day throwing a fit in the office and they know now to call me as soon as my kid walks into the nurses office...and in turn I made sure to tell my daughter that it is very impportant that she only goes to the nurse when she is really sick.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

The grammer school would call when the fever was 100. However, I think they added a bit. A few times I picked up my DDs then came home and they had a temperature of 99 degrees!

 

[Nik's Mom]

I was called to pick up my ds one time because he "just didn't seem right". In their defense, he does have a speech delay and wouldn't have been able to tell them he was sick. I think he just was having a lazy day and as soon as we got home, he was jumping around and as happy as could be.

 

[yeartolate]

Well, my guess is that your daughter made a vague complaint and the preschool paid attention to it. I would consider that a good thing. That coupled with a very low grade fever made them wary.

If you think they made up the fever, you have trust issues with the facility that you need to discuss with them or change schools.

Your daughter also could have been "fudging" to get some mommy time.

In answer to your question - a temp of 100 or above without symtoms was the "go home" number. A lower fever with symptoms was also a ticket home.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

The official number at DS's school is anything over 100.4 gets them sent home. Now, they have called me to come get DS on occasion just because he wasn't feeling well.

The one that used to irritate me was the preschool where one of the little guys I nannied went. He was developmentally disabled. Some days he just didn't want to go to school. So he would throw a fit. The teachers would let him work himself into a complete lather, then call and say he was sick. As soon as I would put him in the car he would LAUGH. No problems at all the entire rest of the day. But OH, NO! They wouldn't let him come back the NEXT day because they sent him home "sick" the day before.

I think if a child has a fever over 100, vomiting, etc. then they can be required to stay out another 24 hours. Otherwise, they should be allowed back at school.