Sending children to school with a fever should be a no-no...

A fever is the least of what parents send kids to school with! I will arrive late in the afternoon and discover chldren with ringworm and all sorts of other things that should have stayed at home! Field trips and things like water day are big factors, especially if money has been spent but some parents send them because they have to work and have nowhere else to send them. Other parents just don't pay that much attention.

I think it is a bad idea to bring a child with fever to the water day as she may just get worse. But then, if we think it another way, wouldn't the little child feel so sad that all her good friends are having fun in the school where she has to stay at home? And even worse, when the day passed, her friends will be talking about how fun it was during the water day where she missed them all. I am no expert in child mind so we may have to turn to some experts for advice on dealing with this kind of situation.

i often times think they just want to get rid of the child for the day so they can do their thing. the school nurse should have called the mother and made her come to pick her up and should have enforced the school rules of not sending a child to school with a fever. it is a rule in our school and i would bet dollars to donuts it is a rule in yours too. it sounds like negligence to me on the parents part. shame on them.

The children are always excused from going to school if they are ill.I wonder why the child is admitted by the teacher if she is sick after all.More so, why didn't the mother realized that it is difficult to go out if you are sick?

a kid should always stay home if he is ill with the flu or fever

Yes,I don't know what the heck the parent was thinking.Health is number one! Sometime,a fever can turn to be a big problem.

Kids definitely need to stay home when sick. I think some people just don't want to take the day off work to stay home with their sick kid. When I used to volunteer at a summer school program kids were always getting sent to school sick. They'd throw up in class and then I'd take them outside while the teacher watched the class. Then the parents would come pick them up and say stupid things like, "Yeah, he threw up this morning too and all last night. But I figured that was the end of it." Uh, well you figured wrong. Here's your barf covered kid back! Then the other kids would end up sick. I couldn't believe how many kindergartners just had to touch the vomit or something gross like that. Personally I wanted to take them all outside while it got cleaned up, but usually the teacher just reacted by putting in a video to keep them entertained and not looking at the cleanup.

I could not agree with you more. As a substitute teacher there is nothing that I hate more than seeing a sick child suffering at school because their parent insisted on sending them to school.

There is no excuse for sending a child out with a fever. She is putting the other children at risk of catching whatever her child has and also putting her child at risk of getting sicker. I raised my kids on my own and trust me...I always had a backup plan for if one of them were sick....you need a back up sitter or you have to just bite it and take the day off. My daughter has actually not let on that she is not feeling well and gone to school....I get a call right off and go and pick her up.

I have seen too many parents do this and all the while claiming that they cant afford to have the child miss school. PLEEEAAAASSSSEEEE**** If the child is sick, the child is sick and sending them to school is just cruel. How much can a sick child learn or even manage to participate in class? I think all schools shoud make it mandatory for chidren who are sick to stay out of school.

I'm a teacher myself, and I personally call the parents of my students when they're not feeling well. First of all, they won't be able to participate well and second I don't want my other students to get the virus. Parents should be the one responsible for their kids health.

Thats what I think she probably had to work and couldn't stay home so she sent the child to school anyway. That is totally unacceptable though. How does anyone send a child to school with a fever? Also what was the mother thinking fever and then having her participate in water day. Getting wet and then shivering making her worse. That is a mother without a bit of sense to me.

you have to make sure your children stay healthy. i have to always remind my son to wash his hands all the time so he don't get sick from school and to keep his distance for those kids that are sent there sick. parents should keep their children home if they are sick stops the spread of diseases and other germs.

that sounds like a very selfish parent who didnt want to stay at home nursing a sick child. she didnt need a babysitter to do her job for her. she should have dropped everything and stayed home with her child

Most schools will make the parent pick up the child if they have a fever. My girlfriend brings her son to daycare and if he has a fever she can't leave him...or if he develops one during the day she has to go and pick him up. That child should've never been allowed to stay there. I feel so bad for that girl.

This is awful. Can you call her a mother? Anyways, the school should send the student home to rest. When you are sick specially children, they should be medicated and well rested inside the house.

Things like this really irritate me. I never send my children to school sick, would not even consider it, and I expect other parents to have the same respect for other kids. I know there are families in which both parents work, and that sometimes it is hard to take that day off, but you have to put your child and their health first. Why would you risk them getting worse, getting someone else sick and well causing this same problem over again. Take the freakin day off.

what kind of mother that was... if my kids dont feel well even without fever, if they say they are dizzy, i will no send them to school.. gosh, i feel sorry for the little girl. where's the fun in that? i've known some parents who are like that too, they get upset when their kids gets sick because they dont want their kids to absent school... why dont they go to school themselves... that was a stupid thing to do.