'Don't keep people home': Govt to give public health advice around sending sick children to school - Seymour
Why would you want sickness to spread at schools? This will get kids sick, it will get their teachers sick, kids will take it home to parents and get them sick. What’s the impact to education but also to the wider workforce and productivity?
Most sickness isn’t that bad. You can go to school with a runny nose or a cough. The teachers will build up immunity so they won’t be getting sick every week. Stop bubblewrapping children and trying to hide them from everything.
Its ok to keep you kid home from school if they’re vomiting or have measles but common cold just send them to school. It’s a reasonable take from Seymour.
We are talking about kids going to school with a little cold. Teachers generally get the flu shot each season and aren’t getting the cold every single time they come in contact with it.
Thinking you need to hold kids home for two to three days each time they are a little sick is the reason why absence have doubled and kids are missing more school than ever and falling behind.
Do you think teachers are being excluded from society because someone came in with a runny nose?
Flu shots only protect against the flu and only the strains it was prepared for. It doesn’t do anything against colds.
Besides that it’s not just the teachers that has to deal with it. The sick kid spreads it to other kids who then take it home with them and spread it to their families and so on. If the initial sick kid was just kept home a whole lot less people have to deal with that crap. That’s a whole lot of absences that could be prevented by the first kids parents just not being assholes.
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