I've been an elementary school teacher for 20 years and have worked at several different schools, and have never seen or heard of a school encouraging parents to bring sick kids in. Never.
Click on the link for how deadly is it and and scroll down to the chart. On the chart you will see the fatality rate for seasonal flu is .1.
I believe they were referring to my post which was the post following their post.
If a person knowing starts a fire in a national park during a burn ban and it leads to a wildfire that person can be charged. The legal consequences vary according to the jurisdiction. I think if a person chooses to not vaccinate (and they don't have any medical reasons not to) and they interact with the public while sick with an illness that can possibly be prevented with a vaccine and they start an outbreak then there should be consequences. I'm not sure what that should be though. People need to be held accountable for the consequences of their actions. Maybe then they would either vaccinate or voluntarily quarantine themselves. until they are well.
Our area, schools request you do not send your child to school within 24 hours of a fever or if your child has a cough. But everyone sends their kids to school ill. Parents don't want to have to take time off work to take care of their kids. SARB doesn't occur until more than 10 absences. In 2013, California choose to only pay for days when students are in class, where it used to be excused illness also got paid. So schools do want kids in class, but none I know say "Bring them ill, then take them home." But so many parents will send them. Flu is hitting our area heavily and one of the 3rd grade classes in my daughter's school had to send 7 students home as parents sent them to school with fevers. *1* class.....
Unfortunately, it’s not always so easy for parents to keep their kids home, even though it should be. The United States is awful at supporting working families, while at the same time sporting a cost of living that requires two income households most of the time. Parents get very little paid sick leave, sometimes are not allowed to use sick leave for anyone but themselves, the FMLA is confusing, unpaid, and doesn’t apply to a lot of workers, and parents have to feed their children. So do some parents sometimes use school as “daycare” as one poster said? I’m sure they do, especially when it’s not clear whether that cough is just “daycare crud” or the start of a serious illness, because next week they still have a mortgage.
I hadn’t heard that asthma increases susceptibility. I’m asthmatic but it’s well controlled. It’ll be hard to talk me out of visiting the park on Sundays. Fortunately, I’m not sick and have no signs or symptoms of being so.
I'm asthmatic too. One reason I get the flu shot. We aren't more susceptible, it is if we get it, we stand a higher chance of it going to pneumonia, thus higher chance of hospitals and death.
I know in our state, a kid has to be there more than half the day, so that wouldn't work which is a good thing.
this post.
