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    My children go to two different schools. So far the sv thing was starting to die down. But nooooooooooooooooo.


    My son had to go to the nurse first thing this morning because he and another boy collided on the playground. They were both sent to the nurse for ice. It was the recess before classes begin. There was a boy at the nurse v****. He told the nurse that he v*** all last night, but his parents told him he is not allowed to stay at home. The nurse was on the phone fighting with the mom to come get him. Meanwhile my son was in the office!!!! My son said "Mom, I was nowhere near him and had my gloves on so we did not touch the same things." (Too cute, but probably a lie to appease me or to avoid my questioning him.)


    My daughter told me that a boy in her class who had v** all day yesterday and last night at home, came to school today with 102 degree fever. He complained of feeling poorly and the school tried to send him home, but mom and dad were not at home AND they would not answer their cells phones. I bet they'd answer it if it was a client or one of their friends.


    I am freakin' pissed as hell. If any of you want to know why the sv spreads so violently - here's your answer.


    Excuse me while I go spit nails.


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    I hear you loud and clear Stella!!!! That was me yesterday. Don't you want to live like a hermit. I can't beleive the nerve of some people.

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    Ridiculous. I keep Logan home if her stomach hurts, she doesn't even have to v* for me to keep her home. I feel guilty sending them to school with colds!!! (but they get them so often they'd never be at school). How stupid can people be?!?!?!

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    That is ridiculous!! Maybe the mom was at the salon---couldn't be interrupted[img]smileys/smilies_05.gif[/img]!!!!


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    OMG stella, I would be soooooooo pissed off!!!! I would go to that school in the morning, and they would know my name when I was finished with them. I do not for the life of me see why parents dont keep their children home when they are sick. What is this world coming to? If you have children it is your responsibility to take care of them. Not just when everything is roses, but when things are bad also. It saddens me to think that some parents are too busy in their own lives to keep and take care of their sick children. AT HOME .............. and not send the to school sick!!!!

    I hope your children stay well, I hate that you are having to go through this. Keep us posted on what happens. (I mean what the school people say when you are done reaming them out tomorrow!![img]smileys/smilies_02.gif[/img] )






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    It reminds me of what happened a while ago with some friends. We used to live next door to a biker and one day he and my dad were out cleaning his bike when the kid next door came out the front and was v*into an ice cream container. The parents were telling him they needed to go to work and couldn't stay home to look after him. The kid was young, maybe8 years old, which made me feel fairly sorry for him. My dad muttered "What horrible parents." and Gary*, the "biker" walked right over the lawn and began bellowing at them about that being how sickness spread. Boy did he teach them a lesson.

    Turned out the kid had eaten something rotten and his stomach was rejecting it. His mother eventually chose to stay home and look after him. How could they send him to school knowing he was v*!? I'd be sympathetic towards my children if the same thing happened, it would be bed rest and water for them.


    *Garys' son went to school a while ago and caught a really really nasty virus from one of the kids who was sent to school with d*, v* and flu-symptoms. How can some parents just not care!

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    I would call child protective services on parents who send their kids to school sick like that.


    My daughter had a poo accident in kindergarten yesterday (turns out she was fine--she drank too much grape juice) and I went and got her to take her home just in case she was coming down with something. Yes, to protect the other children from catching something, but honestly, I care more about my poor baby being at school feeling sick. I could not imagine any of my babies being without me or my husband when they're sick!


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    That is completely disgusting. It isn't the responcibility of the school nurse to take are of sick kids when the parens KNOW THAT THE CHILDREN ARE SICK and send them to school anyhow. How rediculous and unfair. These parents obviously have a problem- no time for their kids. Maybe they shouldn't be parents if they are going to act like that.


    I'm sorry your kids are having to go to school with others who's parents are such complete morons and failures in life. Your kids are lucky to have a caring mom like you!

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    Stella, I'm totally with you on this one!!!! There is NO WAY I'd send my kids to school if they were sick. It'd be hellish for them and damn selfish of me.


    Even if I was non-emet I'd be furious tothinkmy sons had spent all day sitting next to some poor kid who's been v*ing all night. I would never risk infecting other kids this way.


    Sometimes our children get ill. It's a fact of life. And part of the whole parenthood deal is nursing them through it. So you have to skip work. SO WHAT?


    Sorry for ranting. I just don't understand how some parents can be so selfish.

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    At my son's school, there is ALWAYS something passing round.. mostly sv's or nits! [img]smileys/smilies_11.gif[/img]Most of the women I stand with at the gates know about my emet but the ones who wind me up the most are the parents who say, 'My son/daughter has been s* &amp; had d* through the night but i've sent them anyway cos they do my head in while they're at home &amp; I want peace &amp; quiet'


    I usually react with, 'Now excuse me if i'm ranting but this has got to be the most stupid thing i've ever heard! The poor things shouldn't be expected to do a full day at school feeling ill, running to the toilet infecting other children &amp; mutating the bug into a worse one!' [img]smileys/smilies_07.gif[/img]


    The last incidence was last week when a woman said her lil boy had been ill all weekend but she sent him to school Mon morn &amp; they sent him back home after 2 hours.. &amp; she was acting like it was the school that was stupid for sending him home.. I just told her she was mad for sending him.. she didn't like it lol


    I usually get funny looks &amp; most probably get called a freak but I can't cope with the stupidity of some parents.. I keep my lil boy off even if he's complaining of headache or stomach ache, just to be safe! Yeah he drives me potty &amp; makes me on edge because of my emet but I put up with it, just to keep the other kids safe...


    Some parents need a rule book.. openat the page explaining kids do get ill &amp; you have to look after them whether or not it freaks you out or if you have a job! Grrrrrrrrr! Edited by: sneezymonkey

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    Poor you Stella. I know how worrying this must be for you.


    Ireally can not see why parents send sick children to school. A child at my daughter's school v*d and was sent home yesterday. This morning the child was lining up to go into school looking so pale. I could not believe she was back at school. i know my daughter will probably be fine as she had an sv last week, but I feel for all the other children in the class who have not been ill and the poor ill little girl probably just wants to be at home. I felt like taking my daughter back home again.

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    All I can say is that it baffles the hell out of me.....
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    Even as an emet, I could never imagine sending my son to school feeling like that. Not only is it completelyselfish - what parent would want their kid to be in school with a nurse instead of someone who truly cared for them when they are sick! You have to have a license to get married - but any jackass around can have a kid. If you don't want to take care of them - don't have them!

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    Wow....some people or "so called parents" aren't worth the children they have!!!! I would be sooooooooooo mad about that....it's just ridiculous and irresponsible to send your kid to school sick...be it a cold, or a virus...it's non-human. I would die knowing my child was at school not feeling well. If mine just have a slight fever, or a sniffle, i make them stay at home, just b/c i don't want them there feeling bad or infecting the rest of the school. What a bunch of selfish people in the world we have....i hope you go in that school and tell them what you really think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    This really makes me mad too. I mean, most kids are not the most hygienic when it comes to handwashing and parents continue to send their kids to school sick. Therefore, this just goes around like a wildfire in a vicious circle. What is wrong with people? They dont care about how their kids feel or care about others.

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    Don't even get me started....


    (A) how could you do that to your obviously sick (and sleep-deprived) child; and


    (B) how can the school and the other parents have absolutely no recourse when this happens??


    I am with you, Mommyof3, if the school nurse determines they are too sick to be at school and the parents refuse to pick them up or are unavailable, call child protective services.


    I am sensitive to the fact that most parents have to work - I am one of those parents. When my kids are sick, it's my sick time and my annoyed boss. Even so, I would never put my kids or the school in this position.

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    When I was in school/university it p'd me off too when others came to class unwell with sv. It is so mean to inflict it upon others. It should be law that if you are unwell you stay away from others, in my opinion!!
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    Don't even get me started on this one....


    If there is a sv going round I phone my sons nursery to see if any of the other kids are off ill. If so it means that the sv has entered the nursery and it could be that they have been there while they have it. If the nursery say that one or more of the kids are off v****ing then I keep my son home.


    You just cant trust anyone not to spread this stuff.


    On the news a few months ago they were saying that they had shut 9 schools in Birmingham as so many kids had got a sv. It showed cleaners in there disinfecting floors and door handles etc.It just puts the fear of God into me. I can't cope with this and as reblynd said you just want to live like a hermit.


    Good luck everyone !!


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    I love all the wonderful responses. I feel as though the kinship here is great.


    Neither of my childrens' schools were at fault. The parents were at wrong at every level. Both schools did whatever they could to segregate the ill child from the well ones while the school nurses tried to get the parents to acquiesce and get their kids.


    Both of my kids are in private schools, where the parents often think the school "owes" them to do what they, the parents, want. I guess they feel that money talks. Its pathetic that their kids become nothing but another commodity.


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    Oh thats awul. I hope that your kids will not catch SV.


    In my town also there is SV.


    I am take vitamines and hope that everything will be OK[img]smileys/smilies_02.gif[/img]

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    My children also go to a private school, but I dont feel that because I am paying for it, that the school should take care of my sick child. That is my job. Their job is to see to my child's education. They dont owe me anything. Not in that respect.KNOCK ON WOOD ......... we dont seem to have too many people that send their child to school sick like that. (Knowingly) I feel like my tuition money is an investment, so to speak, in my children and their school, and that it is just respectful of my children and the other children at school, to not send sick children there. I hope you guys get what I am trying to say. Although, I can remember one time this year that I found out about a sick child being sent to school. (Some of you will remember my post about that.)

    Are you gonna say anything to these parents if you were to see them?


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    WHOA! I mean WTF? Now I remember my parents sending me to school when I had a cold...but their rule was if I had a fever or I was V*ing then I got to stay home. Okay maybe they weren't the BEST people for sending me to school with a cold, but sometimes when I had a cold I WANTED to go to school and since I didn't have a fever they said it was okay. But if a kid is OBVIOUSLY sick and V*ing and whatever then DON'T send them to school! I mean I always hated when a kid in my class was sick and their parents wouldn't keep them at home. I remember this one time in school where a kid got sick in the middle of class. They sent him to the nurse and the nurse actually SENT HIM BACK! Guess how many kids wanted to sit next to him when he came back...I swear there was almost a riot...kids were moving their chairs and switching tables and everything.


    If your kid has a fever or is V*ing all night or even V*ing at ALL keep them HOME for crying outloud! Even if I WASN'T an Emet I would be saying this! There is NO FREAKIN reason to infect EVERYONE else because YOU don't feel like staying home to take care of your kid! I can't understand the stupidity of some people!


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    It doesnt matter what type of school they are in... a sick kid is a sick kid and they need to be home![img]smileys/smilies_07.gif[/img]

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    I agree, a sick kid is and sick kid and needs to be home. Any parent who knowingly sends a sick child to school is foolish (and rude).


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    DUMB, DUMB, and DUMB. I can't get started on this either!!!</font>

 

 

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