Posted on 02/13/2018 5:01:12 AM PST by SMGFan
They may not get into the city’s best public schools, but they’re gonna die trying.
Parents are so desperate to get their children into coveted public middle and high schools that they are sending them in sick — even with dangerous flu symptoms — because absences count when it comes to admissions, an advocacy group said Monday.
While city education officials publicly tell parents to keep their kids home, they allow many of the schools to set their own admissions policies — which can put much more weight on attendance than actual school performance, according to Community Education Council 2 in Manhattan.
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That is a dumb way to control money. If they keep kids at school to get some money, eventually even more kids will have to skip school due to flu. They have no long term outlook.
My company encourages people to stay home when sick, but won’t allow you to have the highest ratings if you do.
I don’t know about NY but around here in central PA schools, the parents are told to keep their kids home from school if they are running a fever and not to send them back until 24 hours after the fever has passed. IIRC, after several days of absence, a doctor’s note may be required. But with a severe flu outbreak unless this kid is having trouble breathing, it might make more sense to just keep them home.
But as others have said, sometimes parents can’t take off from work or are hourly and don’t get paid and sometimes have no one who can stay at home with the sick kid.
I’m the only qualified man. I would lay in my truck mostly comatose. A few times I had to go look at something because the apprentices didn’t know, and I had to crawl.
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In nursing it is called “a license and a pulse.” To keep ratios above closing the unit minimums.
On the other hand, there are many people whose threshold for staying home is extremely low, and miss a lot of days.
Absolutely...but you know how human nature is. Also, if people have to take a sick day (and it counts against an ET bank or something like that) there are still people loathe to do it.
I’ve had bosses like that too, but often had the ability to work from home with a company lap top and secure VPN.
I was working a part time job at a store I will call “We Be Toys” and “Babies We Have” and went to work sick but got progressively sicker and sicker as the day went on. I was sneezing up a storm and coughing and my nose was running like a faucet. I used hand sanitizer before I handled any costumer merchandise or money or CC, in between every customer, but some of them looked at me like I had the plague, not that I could blame them.
One customer got so upset that I was sick, she went and found a manger to complain about me to, not that she was concerned about me.
The manager came over and yelled at me for scaring the customers. I reminded him that I had called before my shift started and told him I was sick but that he had told me there was no one to cover for me and to get my a$$ to work lest I be written up or fired.
He let me go home early but not before telling me I had to do a spot cleaning of the restrooms. B@stard!
Cold and flu were getting bad here a couple of weeks ago. I had not been sick for near a year but decided I would start regularly using hand sanitizer because of the amount of sick people, elevator buttons to push and door handles in the office. I used the sanitizer religiously and washed regularly with hot soapy water. My hands were turning white and wrinkling from the abuse. I was sick with the most nasty head cold within a week. It still makes people nauseous to hear me cough.
I have to wonder if killing every living bacteria and virus on my hands caused me to get sick. Seems so random.
Ah yes, those that love to call in and stay home vs those that hate using sick/PTO. I had one out right at start Off the new year. Burned the 3 days of sick she gets plus a floating holiday. Got sick again, had to advance her 1 of the 2 weeks of vacation she earns. It stinks either way. At least I can write you up for excessive absenteeism
Retail is a demonic beast of its own. I worked retail all through college and until I got my first degree specific job. Unless you are puking on the sales counter, they want you there. Makes no sense.
Doubtful. Colds and influenza viruses are passed from one person to the next by the droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or even talk or breathe. These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs. Less often, a person might also get flu by touching a surface or object that has flu virus on it and then touching their own mouth or nose.
Hand sanitizer and frequent hand washing can help with the former but not the latter method of transmission.
That’s true, but by sending these kids to school when they have a “touch of” the flu, they are spreading it around further. Parents should just keep their sick kid home for a day or two and let its incubation period pass. Same with workers.
It’s probably better to use it when there is sickness going around but not all the time, like when there is no sickness. Flu and cold season is when you should use it. Keep in mind that germs are also airborne. If somebody sick coughs or sneezes close enough to you, you can still get it. That’s why I don’t go shopping when it’s crowded during flu season. If I do get in that situation I carry some of the thin surgical masks. They look kind of stupid but it’s better than getting sick.
I never use the sanitizer any time other than flu season or when there is some other really bad illness going around. Your immune system needs something to do to keep it working but using it when needed won’t hurt anything.
I’m cautious during flu season because I’m 63 and I have asthma. Pneumonia is a very dangerous thing for me. I’m healthy but pneumonia is a killer with people with asthma or other respiratory issues.
The really obvious answers:
* You don’t think it is bad, send the kid to school.
* Neither you nor the child wants to make up the schoolwork.
* You cannot afford to take a day (or more) off and hope the kid can power through.
* Kid gets food, entertainment and benefits at school they don’t get at home, send them.
* Hope that the child at school is less likely to infect anyone at home.
That it is.
My great niece worked at Burlington Coat Factory while working her way through college. The kid worked really hard and never missed any time and was even promoted to cash manager working the service desk and opening and closing the store, but she fell down some stairs at school and sprained her ankle severely. She went to the ER, they took x-rays to rule out a break or fracture and put a boot on her, told her stay off of it and to keep it elevated and iced, and told her to follow up with an orthopedic.
The next day her ankle was very swollen and she was in a lot of pain so she called work and the manager accused her of faking it (no sure why since she had never missed a scheduled shift before and had even picked up extra ones often on short notice when someone else called out) and she told her that if she didn’t come in she’d get attendance points.
I remember her mom telling my how my great niece was crying. She didn’t want to lose her job but yet was in a lot of pain and went in. Another manager on duty saw her with her boot and obviously struggling to walk or even stand at a register and asked why she was there. And she told him and he asked “do you have a doctor’s note or your discharge papers from the ER” and she told him she did, she’d brought them with her, and he sent her home saying the other manager was full of it and that she wouldn’t be assessed any attendance points.
I was in retail management many years ago and I know how difficult it is to schedule especially part-time workers and how difficult last minute call outs are and yes, sometimes people calling out just because they don’t want to come to work, but as a manager and a human being, sometimes using common sense is called for - sick is sick and injured is injured and sometimes I’d just have to suck it up myself to cover for them if I couldn’t find anyone else even if that meant running a register, cleaning the bathrooms, taking out the trash. As a manager I never asked any of my ee’s to do anything I wasn’t capable and willing to do.
“You don’t walk around with the real flu.”
But you spread it by walking around with the ... I dunno.. fake flu, in your vernacular? And many people spread it AFTER they feel better because they feel a need to get back to the grind. But after the flu it’s also contagious.
The only win here is that every single person be somehow well-off enough to make all of these activities optional.
AFLAC and a savings account.
If you ae getting the flu you can infect people days before you have any symptoms.
Yes, the reason I mentioned it is a private day care provider I know was on the receiving end of this,and they explained it to me. It’s not good when it brings the petri dish of infection in to an area should not have a sick kid in it to expose everyone too it.
Nothing like starting off your day with something beautiful! Thanks for posting.
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I agree, this is the sweetest and most touching thing I have ever read.
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Laz, we’re going to have to stop meeting like this ... people will get suspicious.
I think to most parents, school is more about “free” daycare than education. As such, the push to school is seen as a cost savings from either not using daycare, or not taking off work.
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