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How Sick Is Too Sick for School? »

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It's a familiar scene for every parent of a child in elementary school. The lethargic, shuffling steps into the kitchen. Coughs and complaints of a sore throat and the hint of a feverish forehead.

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netchicke4
Feb. 23, 2007, 2:03 p.m.
Pl-ease......... when your sick your sick! why even risk it going to school and infecting the rest of the healthy population!!!!!
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RunNJump
Feb. 23, 2007, 3:25 p.m.
This story offers very good advice.
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sophie1
Feb. 23, 2007, 3:45 p.m.
My mother-in-law was a very wise woman who raised nine rambunctious kids who didn't necessarily always enjoy going to school. Her philosophy was that if you were sick, you stayed in bed all day, no TV, no phone calls, no nothing that might in the least be enjoyable. A truly ill child will accept this and gladly sleep all day and get better. A child who just wants a day off will get bored and wish he had gone to school...;-)
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thomas998
March 29, 2007, 10:59 a.m.
One major problem this article overlooked. Schools don't like it when kids miss school and try to make it as hard as possible for parent to do the right thing. Because schools only get federal funding if little Johnny goes X number of days, the schools would rather have little Johnny sick in class and not at home. To make it difficult they will require a doctors note to excuse and abscence, now how many parents can actually afford a 70 dollar trip to a doctore just to confirm little Johnny has a fever? Not many which is why your child will be getting sick a lot when they enter school because the people that cant afford to pay a 100 to keep their sick kid home will just send him in to expose the rest of the students.