If your kids are sick, keep them home?

Hey what a coincidence! I'm a highschool student, and as I'm writing this response, I'm staying at home exactly because I am sick! I don't usually stay at home for coughing or sneezing, but this time, it's really serious, and I have a fever. Our family's policy is to stay at home only when I have a fever. Also, during these days when the swine flu epidemic is going on, our school actually suggested us to stay at home if we are sick, because we don't want the potential swine flu viruses spreading around the school. So I would say... let the children go to school if it's just runny nose or sneezing and coughing occasionally, but if the coughing gets serious and they get a fever, that's when you should consider keeping them at home. This way, they get more rest at home so they can recover quickly, and they won't be spreading it to other people at school.

hello mommy boo,

I don't have a kid but if i ever had one or two i would surely keep them at home just to prevent them from spreading the illness towards other people. of course, if they do go to school, probably i should have them wearing mask and using hand sanitizer to keep others from getting infected. but it's better if they stay home.

hi mommyboo I dont have kids but if I had kids I would not let them go to school once the nose is really running like mad and the kid is coughing all the time, fever or no fever.
Simply as my mom worked as a nurse and my dad was a doctor. Believe me I did not have the possibility to stay home with nothing just so I would not have to go to school. My mom was a bit too strict with me oftentimes when I was a kid but much later she was the one telling me off for not going to the doctor when I had a severe cold no matter whether fever or no fever. I think its not good for the bronchial system when you work or go to school in such conditions. My aunt was a teacher and dragged herself to school too with colds and what is the outcome? She has asthma now in her old age.
You know, we adults have a hard time concentrating and working with a cold and with coughing. Its even harder for kids. I would not do that to my kids. Real cold means bed for a few days. And what you miss in a few days in school cant be that bad.

A little sniffle. A slight cough then I would send my child to school. If my child has cold symptoms with a fever too, then I would keep her at home. If I was in doubt, then I would call my child's doctor for advice.

I think it really depends on how sick the kid is and feels. I mean sometimes my mom would send us to school if we had a cold, but the minute we had a fever, we stayed home. I'm very prone to colds, so if I stayed home everytime I had a cold, I don't think I would've graduated from high school lol. But yeah colds do spread like wildfire...and there really is no way of stopping it with younger children.

If i had kids and they were genuinely sick I would keep her/them/him home. No the reason for keeping her home is not because she's going to give it to other people, you should keep her home because with a cold its slightly more diffcult in concentrating and learning.

No doubt your probably exaggerating slightly, not everyone in an entire school is going to have the cold.

If my kids were sick to the point of not being about to do their work or concentrate I kept them home.
What really irritated me was the parents who made their kids go to school when they should have stayed home because they wanted to brag about their kid's perfect attendance.

with all the flus and stuff going around I am keeping my kids home as long as I possiblhy can if they have a fever they stay home and since their immune system is weakened due to cold I try to keep them home at the worst weakness and as it builds up strength then I will send back but I just can not handle taking them to school to just have someone call me and tell me they need to be picked up when they probably should have just stayed home in the first place. Anyway that is my two cents. My oldest was home last week and now my youngest is home and i feel pretty crappy so whatever...colds are not fun and this season is not fun. Oh well it happens.

No! Do not send them to school! I'm currently a Sophmore in high school and I got sick because everyone that was sick showed up at school. I missed almost 2 straight weeks and I know they stress that you should go to school but three days home sick recovering is better than making 12 other kids go through the same thing!

cough and colds are easily transmitted. it is important for school administrators and teachers to give reminders to their students on what to do if they contract these, from time to time to prevent rapid spread. with fever, it would be advisable for our kids to stay home and quarantined for a few days, what with the H1N1 virus still around.