TWolf22: Keep Kids Home When Sick

TWolf22: It is not just whooping cough. These kids bring all kinds of colds and flu into the schools and spread them around to the entire school. If your child is sick,,, keep them home. Teachers are not babysitters. It is a public health issue that needs to be addressed more seriously by the administrators and Panhandle Health.
Parents send their sick kids to school so that they don’t have to stay home from work or pay a babysitter to care for the kids. Instead, they send the contagious kids to infect everyone else. I don’t want my kids coming home sick and then spreading it to the family, but it happens a couple times a year because of those who don’t have any consideration for others and only worry about themselves, which is a root of many of the larger problems we face in society today. (AP file illustration)

Question: How do you know when your kids are sick enough to keep home? And when they’re faking it?