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.

Please don’t send your sick children to school, I don’t want to catch a disease off the little Petri dishes.

You wont if you have a working immune system

This is genuinely window licker levels of stupidity.

Everyone is susceptible to getting a cold, and while it isn’t dangerous for most people, it definitely sucks. So please don’t spread it.

I never said they weren’t susceptible to getting a cold I said they wouldn’t catch it every time they encountered a child with a cold and they’re even less likely to catch it after getting the flu vaccine.

You are acting like this is a normal thing but this has only become the normal after covid. After covid everyone is paranoid about the slightest sickness and its coming at a cost of education. Before covid parents would make a decision on if their kids were sick enough to justify staying home.

After covid the sick days have doubled in the span of a year and more compared to pre covid. I’m stating that the benefit of teachers not encountering as many sick children is not worth the amount of time of school children are having. My reasoning is firstly that advising kids to stay home does not stop teachers from encountering sick children it only reduces the likelihood. Secondly a teacher does not get sick every time they encounter a sick child so if they have sick children in their class they will be fine for most of the year. They might get sick once or twice over winter despite encountering sick children every day.

How about you provide some reasoning as to why you think that it’s a good thing kids sickness rates have doubled in the past year.

My reasoning? It’s a good thing, because people are actually staying home when they’re sick, rather than infecting their coworkers.

Coworkers? We’re talking about school children. You’ve got no idea what you’re even arguing about you are just reacting to the headline.