Re: 100+ sick kids absent from school today (9/15)
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You Young whippersnappers
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Date: September 16, 2014 08:59AM
NiceTroll Wrote:
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> Clinic worker Wrote:
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> > I work in an elementary school clinic. The
> second
> > week of school we always have a large number of
> > kids stay home or try to get out of class and
> get
> > sent home. Their symptoms are all similar:
> tired
> > of waking up early, desire to be home watching
> > more TV, and/or "stomach aches" that 80% of the
> > time are due to needing to poop or anxiety.
> >
> > The ones that call in sick all get noted as to
> > what kind of illness the parents report so we
> can
> > see if there is a real pattern. Right now there
> is
> > not.
> >
> > Once kids make more friends and get on a
> routine,
> > the faking dies down. Right now they're just
> > exhausted, bored, or anxious. We have a handful
> of
> > teachers that need time to adjust too, and will
> > send any kid to the clinic for anything, just
> to
> > make it someone else's problem. Plus the kids
> are
> > new to them and they haven't figured out the
> > fakers yet.
>
>
> There several illnesses out there. Stomach bug, a
> repseratory bug and a sore throat. The parents are
> getting sick as well.
When I was a kid, my parents make us go to school no matter what. Hell, when I was 6, I had Polio, Typhoid Fever and Bubonic Plague all at the same time and my parents made me drag myself to school in my Iron Lung AND when I got home, I had to do my chores and then go work the night shift at textile factory.