I HAVE HAD IT!!!!!!

[raidermom]

I have had it with parents who send their children to school sick!!!! I had a teacher come tell me that a stdent we had sent home yesterday with the stomach virus was up in her room sick. Parents had told him he could not stay home today. I told her to send him to me, temp 100.4 and he was still vomiting this morning. I called number that was listed and told them to come pick him up and they asked WHY? :banghead: I today if he was stillthen calmly expplained that student had temp and said " Someone will have to come and get him" She then said, I don't know why he even went today if he was still sick. I then said that Student said they told him that he couldn't stay home today. Stepgrandmother that I am talking to then says, " Someone will come pick him up." I said Thank you. My big issue is that he rode the bus to school and sat in breakroom and has spread this to everyone else. We have students that are coming back to school from being out with Flu and other thing and this parent sent their child to school because they did not want to take care of them today! I am furious and I hate starting my day off like this. I know that child can't help it and it makes me angry that parents don't seem to care. I dealt with this same issue with a special needs child yesterday that had been out of school for a week. Guardian sent back and by lunch he was wiped out and running fever and had not been to doctor, is out today and guardian doesn't plan on taking him to doctor today. I cried yesterday when I went to check on him, he is in a wheelchair and he put his head next to mine and rubbed my face with his:scrying::scrying:. He couldn't sit up. I called and said okay she would come get him but it would be a little while( less than 2 minutes from school) . I know that there are days like this but I really needed to vent, only 1 more day until Spring Break. I need it ! I am feeling overwhelmed with all of this.

[raidermom]

Babylady,

I am not talking about parents like you are. I am talking about parents who don't care. They are sitiing home and do not want to fool with their child. They send them to school sick. I did have a job like that, I got wrote up by my hospital because I had to be off with my dd when she had surgery. However, my child came first. I am not talking about children with the sniffles, you have to prove to me your sick before I even call home. I am talking about parents who know they have a sick child who is contagious and send them to school to sit right behind your child who then will get sick and then you have to take off work. The parents of the children I am talking about in my original post don't work!!! They are sitting at home with boyfriend/girlfriend who also doesn't work!

[BabyLady, BSN, RN]

I agree...if the parents don't work, the kid needs to be at home.

My apologizes for misunderstanding :)

[missjennmb]

It must be frustrating for you, being the caretaker of all of these children. I can see both sides (although not if the parent is home on their butts doing nothing admittedly). I know that my husband has lost so much time from work that we worry for his job, because of our sick children (he's taken off atleast a month in the past 6 months between our 2 youngest passing sickness back and forth). I also know that at my son's school, staff always looked at me amazed when I showed up for every single conference, every single teacher's bad report sent home, every single blip in my son's schoolday where I thought having a 5 min conversation with the teacher/Vice Principal/Counselor would help. I was shocked to find out I was the only parent in my son's entire class that the staff knew without introduction. Too many parents dont care. But also too many employers don't give leeway (I had to beg and CRY to get a day off of school without failing when I had to take my daughter to the hospital to get tubes put in her ears last month - and they said I would fail before I fell apart and begged...that was my 2nd total absence in 6 months)

Its a tough situation and understandably frustrating for you. atleast these children have you there to watch over them, even if mom and dad have other things on their minds. Just to those who responded, please dont be too judgemental of parents who send their kids to school mildly sick because they have to work. Its a rock and a hard place, and not everyone has a "sick care" available (there isn't even one where I live at all... and I have nobody that could take my child if she was sick so that I could still go to work/school even if I could afford to pay for it) I think that ideally a parent should stay home/have a "set your own hours" kinda job so that there is never a question about this, but then not everyone has that option unfortunately.