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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
It is the same reason people go to work when they know they are sick. And go to social events. And go to school. And jump on a plane.
There is always an incentive to make sure you go to work...or school...or a social event...or jump on a plane, and by corollary, a disincentive to stay home.
The basic reasons cover the spectrum, but the outcome for following the incentive (and avoiding the disincentive) in these cases is always bad, because everyone else gets sick.
If you have the real flu you are not going anywhere but to bed. You don’t walk around with the real flu.
Children who are absent cost the schools their state per diem money. So the schools will not encourage that flu sufferers stay home, another sign that the welfare of students does not come first in the minds of educators.
Nothing like starting off your day with something beautiful! Thanks for posting.
Why?
People suck.
Sorry, I posted my previous comment to the wrong thread.
I thought you were just being sarcastic. LOL!
It’s getting bad here. Most of the schools (public) have canceled classes. I go to town once a week to get groceries and have been going really early on Sunday morning to avoid crowds of sick people.
I wear disposable rubber gloves, the surgical type, clean the buggy handle with sanitizer, and keep sanitizer hanging on my purse and in my truck.
It’s discouraging when it’s so bad the schools are closed and you see parents pushing their little kids in the buggy while letting the child teeth on the buggy handle. It’s no wonder so many are sick and in danger of dying.
A few years ago, before I retired, a really bad strain of flu came through and we were met at the turnstile at work daily to be checked for symptoms. If you had symptoms you were sent home. My company wasn’t messing around with people coming to work sick.
Yes, when most people have the ‘real’ flu, they aren’t able to work but you have a lot that try. That’s all it takes.
FREE CHILD CARE
They may not have day care and or time off options as parents. So they give them tylenol get the temp below 99.9 and send them to school, if they stay a 1/2 + it may not be considered missing a full day. Those are a couple of other reasons....
Because the liberal school system wants the funds even if it means endangering the kids they never get around to educating - and maybe a number of parents too busy to take care of their own sick kids so they send them off to the baby sitters to allow them time for booze and drugs....
I agree, this is the sweetest and most touching thing I have ever read.
Me too.
Two winters ago, I was running a small crew of 7 and doing some tear downs and additions on an oil lease. I was the only journeyman. I was so sick at one point, I couldn’t even stand. The consultant told me, I don’t care what you do, just be here. The crew can’t work without me, 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.
The things we do in oil and gas heh. I don’t think I’d do it again though. I did get a good bonus on that one though.
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Is that just some weird NYC thing? I always had bosses that wanted half-dead people to show up to work. I never understood that.
I have noticed here that the school geniuses cut in half the permissible number of unexcused absences. Therefore, the kids go to school sick and get all the other students sick.
“... so they give them Tylenol...”
When my kids were in elementary school, a parent told me the “trick” to getting the kids to school if they were sick was Tylenol (drops the temp more quickly) and then Motrin (keeps the temp lower for more hours). Now.. the “trick” was to dose them as you were dropping them off or before the bus stop... last minute. By the time the poor kids temp spiked... it was after lunch.. and then the nurse would call the parent. The parent would say that by the time they got to school, it would be at closing. So they had to be kept in the nurse’s office. Needless to say... I was shocked at the concept that your own child was sick and you couldn’t or wouldn’t stay home with them. To me.. it is neglect.. but that’s me.
As a manager, I encourage my team to stay home when they don’t feel well. Have a fever, don’t set foot in the office. I keep a can of disinfectant spray handy and spray our area weekly. Work will be there tomorrow.
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