Parents' Forum

I sent my two kids to school today, but I ended up getting a call from the school to pick them both up. No sooner had I picked my youngest up, I had to go back to pick the other one up as well.  OK they did both have coughs but they weren’t really sick. 

I was told that my youngest had a temperature and the oldest had a rash that needed to be reviewed by the doctor.  I did my youngest’s temperature before school and after they sent her home and it was 37 degrees. I don’t think that constitutes hot.  My oldest had been scratching her face (hence the rash) and was hoping to come home because lots of other kids get sent home in her class.  In fact when I picked up my eldest there were two other kids waiting for their parents to arrive.

Apart from one of my children needing to go to hospital to have a bead removed from her ear (a childhood experiment gone wrong) my kids only sick days are when the school tends to send them home.  I think schools are creating a culture around kids where they know that if they cough loud enough they will be sent home.  I think the schools should be a little more matronly about children and illness.  Most kids enjoy a sickie and thats not in the kids or the parents interest to entertain.