This also applies to anyone who's effected via dependents that go to school also. I work from home, so I am lucky that if my kids needs to stay home, at worst I'll be home. But I do need to, you know, work. In the past 3 weeks my kids have been to daycare for 2.5 days. My situation, personally, is a kid can't have a temp over 100. Anyone who has had young kids know that if they run around, or probably sneeze three times in a row, it's over that. Then just like that they are out of school for 2 days minimum and have to get a covid test that must be scheduled and get the results back... which is usually a 3 day adventure. I just had to pick my kid up again because he has a temp over 100, but he's running, laughing, just has absolutely no signs of being sick what so ever. Him, and his sister, are now home all week and can't return until Monday (they are closed Friday for New Years). I truly feel for teachers in this day and age with the crap they have to deal with... To the extreme of school shootings, to every kid having a cell phone and infinite distractions, to the TikTok trends that are intentionally destructive. And of course covid.. I just can't fathom how hard it is. But the way it's being handled right now by whoever makes these decisions is just not sustainable. Having a threshold to demand covid tests and prevent daycare so low that being under a lamp can make it happen, it's making the crazy crazier and the sane crazy. I'll be working this week while watching 2 kids.. the same thing I did last week and really got jack shit done. What's harder is neither of my kids are sick. Sick they would sit by me and play/watch TV.. healthy im going to have to actively entertain my toddler. My sister is law was a nursing director for a school district, she actually stepped down because she couldn't handle the nutso parents who would go off on her like it was her decision. But the thing is.. I'm not that nutso. My whole family is vaxxed, we still wear masks everywhere and we literally carry hand sanitizer with us to use every stop. We keep our kids out of school when they are sick. It's happened. A lot. But in the past 15 daycare days, they have gone 2.5 days and were actually sick a grand total of 2-3 days. Funny enough, we kept them out after seeing our oldest after picking him up from a full day of daycare, they didn't call us. And yes, we got them covid tested. The way it's being handled is not doing a good job enough of actually isolating kids who should stay home and should get tested. And that will only breed the crazies that will lie about their kids health, and probably spread covid. This is partially venting, but I wanted to know if anyone else has had this effect them as well
My only experience with this is my 47 year old cousin who has been teaching in the NYS school system for for 22 years now. She's seriously considering early retirement and another career because parents are medding their kids up and sending them to school sick. She knows a sick kid when she sees one after 22 years in elementary school teaching and she's basically had it and looking for another career. She's a very good teacher and when the system loses one of those it's just a loss for the hundreds of kids they'd have taught before 65. Side note on this: Covid-19 is going to kill millions of people long after it is gone. That's because the doctors, nurses, techs and other professionals that it is driving away from public medicine are going to be a lot better than the hastily trained people replacing them.
I hear you Jack. This sucks for everyone. It sucks for parents, it sucks for teachers, it sucks for kids. Good luck.
I feel your pain bro. Not effect now because I have a teen and preteen and wife works from home but when my youngest was a toddler she would get kicked out of daycare every other week for pink eye that wasn’t pink eye. She had to get tubes in her ears to stop bad ear infections. We gave the daycare a note from the doctor explaining the situation and they would continue to send her home. Missed a lot of work and used up all the goodwill I built up back then until she was able to get the tubes in . Not long after she broke her arm while there. I got 6 months of free care for that.
