This week I'm getting a lot of students referred by teacher for vague symptoms ("feels hot," "looks sick," "brother was sick," "coughing," etc.)
If the student is afebrile and not acutely ill I'm sending that student back with a note saying that the teacher's welcome to call/email the parent but I can't send the student home if s/he doesn't meet dismissal guidelines.
So far that hasn't curbed anyone sending me a vaguely ill, mostly well body. I don't want to be in the habit of calling a parent just because the teacher asks, or because "he's had his head down all day and he's not working." (That one got a disco nap in the clinic and it was apparently curative).
