Is that not common fucking sense ? Who is sending their kid to school with flu ?
This should always be the case so just maybe schools should stop sending out snotty/threatening letters if you take your child out of school due to illness on more than one occasion each term.
Meanwhile visitors from China will not be required to self isolate if they test positive for Covid on arrival, in tests which are voluntary anyway.
Did nobody learn anything from the whole covid thing? Why do people need to be told this should be obvious.
I teach music in a junior school. (& in a uni)
If I hear excessive, coughing & sneezing, or if the classroom CO2 monitor shows poor air quality. I open doors. And windows. Yes, every class has a USB C02 monitor.
I ignore the pleas of cold children & tell them to go & get their coat.
Schools are obsessed with attendance. As a parent I was told to send my kids to school with a cough, runny nose, headaches, whatever. Absences are very much frowned upon and there are even fines for skipping school. So yeah, it is common sense, but it’s not parents who lack it, it’s people who run the schools.
I guess it maybe comes down to money. Lower attendance scores probably results in lower ofsted scores and funding cuts.
It’s not sending your kid to school sick.
It’s getting caught! Sending your kid to school sick that’s wrong
Why the fuck is that not the default advice anyway?
That’s not what our school says. They still say that attendance is super-duper important.
On the one hand we have this sensible advice, on the other a policy of terrorising any parent who follows it. Hmm.
Parents who aren’t getting their children vaccinated against SCARLET FEVER can jog on.
What is this? 1875? How are we still dealing with scarlet fever in 2023? My God…
Time to ditch presenteeism, both at school and work. That should have been a big lesson learnt during the pandemic, yet one we have already forgotten. With online schooling possible, there is no need to send an infectious kid into schools, which are excellent Petri dish for illnesses. Even then, kids can miss a few days and catch up with a bit of extra help. Letting them rest and recover is always going to be more important.
Oh, hey – Poland’s having the same thing. Flu, COVID and RSV.
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Is that not common fucking sense ? Who is sending their kid to school with flu ?
This should always be the case so just maybe schools should stop sending out snotty/threatening letters if you take your child out of school due to illness on more than one occasion each term.
Meanwhile visitors from China will not be required to self isolate if they test positive for Covid on arrival, in tests which are voluntary anyway.
Did nobody learn anything from the whole covid thing? Why do people need to be told this should be obvious.
I teach music in a junior school. (& in a uni)
If I hear excessive, coughing & sneezing, or if the classroom CO2 monitor shows poor air quality. I open doors. And windows. Yes, every class has a USB C02 monitor.
I ignore the pleas of cold children & tell them to go & get their coat.
Schools are obsessed with attendance. As a parent I was told to send my kids to school with a cough, runny nose, headaches, whatever. Absences are very much frowned upon and there are even fines for skipping school. So yeah, it is common sense, but it’s not parents who lack it, it’s people who run the schools.
I guess it maybe comes down to money. Lower attendance scores probably results in lower ofsted scores and funding cuts.
It’s not sending your kid to school sick.
It’s getting caught! Sending your kid to school sick that’s wrong
Why the fuck is that not the default advice anyway?
That’s not what our school says. They still say that attendance is super-duper important.
On the one hand we have this sensible advice, on the other a policy of terrorising any parent who follows it. Hmm.
Parents who aren’t getting their children vaccinated against SCARLET FEVER can jog on.
What is this? 1875? How are we still dealing with scarlet fever in 2023? My God…
Time to ditch presenteeism, both at school and work. That should have been a big lesson learnt during the pandemic, yet one we have already forgotten. With online schooling possible, there is no need to send an infectious kid into schools, which are excellent Petri dish for illnesses. Even then, kids can miss a few days and catch up with a bit of extra help. Letting them rest and recover is always going to be more important.
Oh, hey – Poland’s having the same thing. Flu, COVID and RSV.