cruisehopeful
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2015
Just another bit of 'musing'....at one point in time schools told parents to keep kids home at the least sign of a communicable disease. But there came a time (after they changed the school attendance money criteria) that we were actually encouraged to bring our kids in sick for roll call then take them right home. The school no longer got their daily rate if a child was out sick.
In my youngest's large public school in southern California, I was told to do my best to always bring my child in for the first 10 minutes of class. They understood that if she was barfing, I wasn't going to do that, but they did want fever/phlegm kids in for roll call. I served on the school site council, so I think they (the principal and the teacher) told me at one of the meetings vs. making a general request to the parents at large.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.
That was nearly 20 years ago, so hopefully things have changed since then.
It's not too different than working in fast food. We signed a statement saying that we would never show up to work ill, but boy did the management get mad if we ever called out sick!