Medicate Your Child

[DaisyNonna]

and send it to school?
Do let us infect classmates, staff, their families and the wider community

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418835/Poole-headteacher-says-sick-children-dosed-medication-sent-school-temperature-cough.html


This I take it.

[Mamyalynne]

I would rather those decisions were left to parents who know their own children.

[tonyav]

So do I, and did do ( along with mrs av ) when my kids were of school age.

[sherrardk]

If mine are poorly they stay home - sickness bugs are the worse, people send them straight back and then everyone is chucking their guts up. More tricky as they get older -our high school is 8 miles away and you worry about getting them home before they feel really awful .

[vulcan42]

This is what happens when attendance figures are considered more important then a childs health. Isn't there something wrong in the education system that a child is "missing out on precious learning time" if s/he is off for just a couple of days? I don't remember losing irreplaceable school time by being away with a cold.

[Sqad]

I agree with mamy 23.23 and I also have sympathy with our Poole headmaster's opinion.

It is a matter of degree, commonsense and knowing your children as mamy has said.
Slight temperature, bit of a cough....dose them up and send them to school as grandparents and parents would have done 50 years ago.

As for the NHS website and the "high ranking GP's" advice....of course, when one throws into the pot...."high temperature, shivering and drowsiness" then that invokes a different "ball game and in these cases one might, need to seek a medical opinion.

Common sense........that's what it is all about.

[murraymints]

as children we went to school no matter what..except chicken pox !.. our teacher used to have a medicine cupboard which parents donated to for cough bottles etc...did us no harm...

[Sqad]

Murray.......today's children are "special" " a gift from God" "little princes".........yesterday's children were...well...CHILDREN.

[murraymints]

lol...I always say kids need to harden up these days..!! over indulged and far too "precious" most of them....a week in minty boot camp would do them good !! as I keep saying to my sis re her "wee darlings " :-)