Just because you are in jeopardy of getting a fine for truancy for 9 unexcused absences, do not come and expose others to your cooties.
Sent Little Darling home with fever Tuesday. This meant LD got 2 excused absences since we excuse the next day if the nurse see they are running a fever. He comes back this morning and checks into class, then asks to see the nurse. Comes into my office telling me he was running a fever of 101.2 when he woke up this morning and GM gave him medication. This was after me telling both of the them fever free policy and to go to the dr if he needed to be out after WED. At this time, he was not running a fever. Called GM anyway and she was across the street at Wal-mart and came to pu student. Took his temp and it was 100.0. So, 2 days nurse excused.
When I encouraged GM to take LD to dr, she started going on about the pollen and such. Allergies don't make you run fever for 3 days straight. So because of his allergies, he may have a sinus infection. Really, just take him to the dr.
On the other side of the spectrum, I gotten more kids than usual this week, all for headaches and I'm assuming it's allergies, but lots of parents pick them up and they are fine, and I get yelled at for wasting their time and it's like, "I gave you a choice to pick them up or not, and you picked this one, so why blame me?"
Then I had this other child, did NOT have a fever, 98.6, came twice for headache. I called mother, she said okay. She never said she'll pick him up or anything. I come back from lunch and she's there and she said she got him earlier today and she took him to the doctor and he had a fever and how could I not see that when I checked him? It's like, temperature changes... he was okay earlier today and I told you he just had a headache, but thankfully you picked him up and he had one a the doctor's instead of here. She told me to be more vigilant and not be so dumb. I apologized for my oversight and I'll make sure to double check for now on.
Ugh. I had a student in here the other day with a headache. No fever--98.6. 20 minutes later she said the headache is way worse. Temp was 100.4. Temperature changes. Sometimes rapidly. You did nothing wrong.
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Ugh. I had a student in here the other day with a headache. No fever--98.6. 20 minutes later she said the headache is way worse. Temp was 100.4. Temperature changes. Sometimes rapidly. You did nothing wrong.
I know I did nothing wrong, but I hate when parents think a confrontation this way will make me actually fix things or make things better if they say it nicely.
No it will actually piss me off, because I feel like you are scolding me like a child. Why do you think I would overlook your child? No! Sure he's not the only snowflake here I have to take care, and sometimes I'm bombarded with so many kids, but I will never overlook a headache or a fever. He was fine, but temperature changes, I explained the mother, but she still said that I should be more careful and not dumb to miss these things! I can't fight her, but I will apologize even if I'm pissed off. If her kid comes in, I'll just call mom to come get him. And I won't check his temperature because apparently I'm too dumb to know my fevers and she knows more than me.
Ugh. I had a student in here the other day with a headache. No fever--98.6. 20 minutes later she said the headache is way worse. Temp was 100.4. Temperature changes. Sometimes rapidly. You did nothing wrong.
I had a kid once go from 97.5 to 102.5 in 40 minutes. Poor girl was miserable.
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