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:lol: Wow, I'm guessing this is something you only have mild views on Annie? :wink::lol:

 

I once had a serious case of impetigo and it spread all over my face and up the inside of my nose - it was awful and I was lucky it didn't scar. Reading your post brought back memories.......not very nice ones!

 

Of course, I had my impetigo when on a caravanning holiday with my parents and didn't get chance to have time off school :roll: typical :roll::lol:

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Annie, you are absolutely right and I agree with you entirely.

 

I honestly didn't mean earlier that I would send my children to school if they were ill, just that I have ways of making sure they are ill and not just trying it on. (My children of course are total :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: )

 

Some people are very aware and others, as you say, just haven't got the time to look after their children properly. I fortunately have very good reason to make a big thing of coughs and colds if they turn up in our choir. That is so unfair!

 

And have you noticed how children no longer cover their faces when sneezing, coughing or yawning? How rude is that? And it is down to the parents, not the child. It seems unacceptable to speak about good manners these days.

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Things get frustating as a parent too though, Annie. I can totally see your point but the following is currently driving me mad. All three of our boys go to the same high school. In September we had a letter home from school saying there was a pupil in school under going chemotherapy for lukemia and that if any child had vomiting or diahorrea they had to be off school for 24 hours after the last time they were sick etc. Fair enough, although I did wonder in a school of 1900 pupils how she was going to avoid someone passing on germs they probably didn't know they had, so many bugs are infectious before you get symptoms. Anyway two of the boys got a reoccuring stomach bug that they couldn't shift. They'd be sick for a few days fine for a few, sick again. There were days when they looked and acted fit as fiddles but it was within 24 hours so we dutifully kept them off. At the start of this term we got a letter from school saying that whilst they weren't querying the authenticity of the absences, Jonathan's attendance was only 85% and therefore well below the 95% level set for all pupils and stressing how important is was that we encouraged him to be in school as much as possible. The tone really was that we'd been done a bad thing and were in trouble. Oh and stressing that a copy of the letter was being sent to the Education Welfare Officer!

So basically as a parent I just can't win, I must keep them off school and at the same time send them in to keep the attendance figures up and it's on record that they have had too much time off. I went mad at the school and we have asked a copy of our reply be sent to the same Officer. But again I was made to feel that I was making a big fus, I felt I just couldn't win with them what ever I do is wrong.

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I can see your point Annie, but I wouldn't keep Rosie off if she only had a cold. There's no way that I could take days off work every time Rosie was poorly with the sniffles - I'd get a warning. My rule is that if she has a high temperature or a tummy bug then she should stay at home, but otherwise she goes to school. Luckily she really likes school and doesn't malinger. I just don't have the option to stay at home and look after her if she's only slightly poorly - sounds harsh, but it's a fact if you're working single parent.

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There are colds - and then there are colds! We can all cope with minor colds, even if we take products to dry them up while we're out. And then there are streaming colds which really need to be kept away from everyone, they are so germy and revolting. There is a difference. Same as there a irritating little coughs and then there are great big chesty coughs which should stay at home.

 

I understand what you're saying Claret. I'd say there are mothers - and then there are mothers! It is unbelievable the state in which some children are sent to school and I feel very sorry for them. I am absolutely certain that you wouldn't send Rosie to school if she was ill, but some people do. Schools are used as free child-care.

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