Good morning everyone! Happy Tuesday to you all. Hubby is slightly feeling better today and went in to the office to work a few hours. Hopefully that means I can get some work done today too.
Today’s Topic: Today I am in “vent” mode and really am going to vent about this. I know some parents are going to disagree with me and that is fine. However, I am entitled to my opinion and entitled to voice it. I am sick and tired of Parents who consistently send their children to school sick. I am talking about “infectious” sick! When our daughter was little she was sick all of the time and I mean all of the time! Hubby and I both worked full time jobs & would rotate our sick days. When we got close to running out…we hired a sitter to be on standby for days when our child was sick to cut down on our missed work time. Unlike others, we did not send our child to school sick so she could infect every other kid at the school.
Some parents disagree and pull the “I am a single parent” card or they don’t have family around card. Well, we lived in a different state and we had to find a reliable option and hired a responsible person to cover on days we couldn’t have off work. Furthermore, I know many PARENTS who drop their kids off at school SICK and then go home themselves! What the hell is going on here? If you are home and you have a sick child, why the hell are you sending that child to school to make everyone else sick? Come on now!!!
Yes, I am venting and Yes…I am fed up! My grand daughter is in her last year of full day preschool and I am tired of snot nosed kids who have infections at school constantly passing their garbage to her and making her sick! One parent in particular is habitual at sending her 2 little ones to preschool SICK and then goes home all day long and runs back in to pick them up!!!! She don’t work outside the house and should be keeping those kids at home when they are infectious sick!!! Grumble!!!!! Okay, done venting.
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I too agree with what you wrote. Children are a big responsibility and part of that is to make sure that other children are not unnecessarily infected. It is terrible to send your sick child to school. Many parents have been able to work around it and these parents should also find a way.
I absolutely, 100% agree with you and commend you for being so responsible with your child. My neighbor is a third grade teacher and she “vents” about this every year. Schools are not hospitals, nor are they sitters. If these “parents” would think ahead and be as ready as you are less kids would end up sick each year.
I have to say I agree. Children are a big responsibility. They bring many problems and many blessings. To be a full loving, responsible parent you have to deal with all of it. I will admit that I am lucky enough to have some leniency at my work that when my children were sick they would try to work with me, but, even at that, family comes first. Not only is it unhealthy for the other children and adults your sick child interact with but germs are left all throughout the school and it isn’t good for your own child. When they aren’t well, they need to be resting and cared for to get better. All we end up doing is the continual cycle of passing infections around and around.
Schools also need to realize that some children just get sick more than others. My daughter was sick a lot, and she was told her freshman year of high school that she was going to have to go before the board because she had missed over 10 days. This is unreasonable, too. Sick people need to stay home, take it easy, get better, and try not to pass germs! Stay well and healthy everyone!
Agree. We got talked to about our son missing 4 days in a row. He had a pneumonia, and a fever over 101 on all four days. What was I supposed to do? I brought in a Doctors note. But really?
I agree whole-heartily however working parents do not have many choices and the solution is to have places that accept sick kids (mild fever, cough etc) on a per diem basis. Handle the Tylenol, warm blanket TV/video game play – If I had enough money I would open one of this places and relieve working Moms of the age old dilema
Hi Maria
thank you for your comments. I would have to disagree about having a “sick kid” daycare due to all kids not having the same infection. You wouldn’t want sick kid A with such and such now infecting sick kid B who has something else.
Working parents have options just like we did. We had 4 people on standby just for sick days.
I agree 100%. Not only does it SPREAD it to everyone else, but it also doesn’t allow your child time to recover and get better. When my 5 year old is sick, he NEEDS to be home to rest. I can’t imagine making the poor kid be miserable at school all day while running a fever and coughing.
I do have empathy for people where it is hard to take of work I get it. I have a demanding job and so does my husband – we rotate sick days. Also, don’t wait until last minute to try and find an emergency sitter. We contacted 3-4 friends in the area to see if they wold be willing to at least be contacted in situations like this to babysit so that we have a READY list to go to when we need a sitter on a work day. It has saved us many times!!
What infuriates me is the excuses that parents and adults make on why they sent their kids to school sick or like you said, why they showed up to work sick. This is total BS if you ask me! I worked in the corporate world, I had a chronically ill child, I have lived on a single income…I know about tough times but part of your JOB as being a parent is to be responsible and MAKE arrangements for if or when your child gets sick!
This is why we have flu epidemics and other nonsense going on! If you or your child are sick, stay the hell home until you are no longer contagious and can infect other people! I am tired of it…just tired of it!
This infuriates me. Get everybody else sick, why don’t you. If you’re contagious, a kid OR an adult, stay home! Don’t sneeze on my kids in school, or me on the subway. WHERE is common sense, common courtesy???????
that goes the same for adults at work too! I’m home for the 2nd day in a row with bronchitis and no way would I bring this crud to work and get everyone sick but there’s several co-workers who drag themselves on death’s door to work – not sure if they want the attention but they end up getting sent home anyway so what’s the point!
I agree. Our work actually tells people that either work from home or stay home, but stop coming in sick!!
I agree with you! I think it is terrible that parents send their sick kids to school so the other kids can get sick. I had this happen to my son and he was always getting sick when other kids did not stay home. I think it is awful, they need to keep the sick kids home!!