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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
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DH had it out with the kids father today...it was awesome
And this is exactly why daycare centers have confidentiality policies that state they are not allowed to say specifically what child has what illness, contagious or not.
Personally, I think it's wrong to confront another parent about this. The issue is with the daycare and I would have spoken with the director. Just look at how crazy parents can get when their kids are playing sports. I can only imagine how heated parents can get when confronting other parents about bringing their sick/contagious kids to school.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that I would have been annoyed to see a child in the school with ringworm and that the center should have given a general warning to the parents, but I don't believe you should have ever been told who had it or had your DH confront the parent. JMO.
When Parents start respecting the system then they could benefit from the system
The RULE is NOT to BRING CONTAGIOUS KIDS to school
They BROKE THE RULE
I dont care one bit about their privacy and my DH will stick up for our kids and the rest of the healthy kids in that class anyday
Then I assume it is safe to say you don't care one bit about your privacy and the privacy of your DC either... if it ever came down to the teachers giving out information about your DC to other parents.
As for the rules, realistically speaking I would say a majority of parents have dropped their kids off at daycare knowing that they were a bit under the weather... slight temp, cough, snotty nose. Then they just hope that they don't get a call from the center later in the day to come pick them up. I'm not saying it's right, but I would feel comfortable guessing that there is a high percentage of parents who have done that.
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
I don't know how i feel about this. I mean the parents were absolutely wrong for risking an infection of the other children in the classroom. But part of me wonders if maybe that man's job is the only thing keeping food on the table? It could be that they are complete idiots and ignorant.. but it may be more.
I would not have confronted the parents. I would have confronted the director. Based on your first post, at SOME POINT the teachers knew it was ringworm and the child was allowed to stay in school with no notice home to the parents.
The fact is that those parents were 'found out' - but I'll guarantee they aren't the only ones who have 'snuck' a contagious kid to school out of a sense of desperation.
Ringworm is a fungus. It's the same as jock itch or athlete's foot. It sucks and I really and sincerely hope that none of the other kids in your child's class get it.. but it's not an airborne thing and if he's being treated and if the school is preventing skin to skin contact with other children it's probably going to be fine.
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Stacey1403
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
Posted by JenBenMen
Posted by jerseypanda
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DH had it out with the kids father today...it was awesome
And this is exactly why daycare centers have confidentiality policies that state they are not allowed to say specifically what child has what illness, contagious or not.
Personally, I think it's wrong to confront another parent about this. The issue is with the daycare and I would have spoken with the director. Just look at how crazy parents can get when their kids are playing sports. I can only imagine how heated parents can get when confronting other parents about bringing their sick/contagious kids to school.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that I would have been annoyed to see a child in the school with ringworm and that the center should have given a general warning to the parents, but I don't believe you should have ever been told who had it or had your DH confront the parent. JMO.
When Parents start respecting the system then they could benefit from the system
The RULE is NOT to BRING CONTAGIOUS KIDS to school
They BROKE THE RULE
I dont care one bit about their privacy and my DH will stick up for our kids and the rest of the healthy kids in that class anyday
When did he start treatment for it? If he is being treated for it he doesn't have to be excluded. I would ask the director if as Dr's note was brought in. If the day care let him stay and he's not being treated then they are just as much at fault.
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Stacey1403
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
Posted by rojerono
Ringworm is a fungus. It's the same as jock itch or athlete's foot. It sucks and I really and sincerely hope that none of the other kids in your child's class get it.. but it's not an airborne thing and if he's being treated and if the school is preventing skin to skin contact with other children it's probably going to be fine.
If it is covered the chances of any kids getting it is slim. They would have to have skin to skin contact.
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JenBenMen
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
Day Whenever: This kid has ringworm and the parents dont say anything
Day 12/2: The teacher finds it and calls the damn parents and they say "oh yeah--he has ringworm"
Day 12/3: He brings in a note and the teachers quarantine him
i spoke to the daycare directors and they were not helpful
The parents are at fault
And YES...above poster...if my kid is SICK/FEVER i keep them home....and if I didnt and they called me out on it....who cares??
I pay $24,000/yr for this crap
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jerseypanda
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
Posted by JenBenMen
Day Whenever: This kid has ringworm and the parents dont say anything
Day 12/2: The teacher finds it and calls the damn parents and they say "oh yeah--he has ringworm"
Day 12/3: He brings in a note and the teachers quarantine him
i spoke to the daycare directors and they were not helpful
The parents are at fault
And YES...above poster...if my kid is SICK/FEVER i keep them home....and if I didnt and they called me out on it....who cares??
I pay $24,000/yr for this crap
Well that's great that you would NEVER bring your DC to school sick, but you probably want to lower your expectations for other people because I can tell you that children are brought to school sick every day. Parents who knowingly do it, parents who don't realize it, parents who justify it because they need to put food on their tables... whatever the case may be, it happens.
I do think that even though the parents bear responsibility here, the greater issue is how the school/director is handling the situation. So you say that the director was not helpful? What makes you think that they are going to do anything differently in the future? I have a bigger issue with all of the things the center/teacher/director are doing wrong than what 1 parent did in regards to ringworm, especially when privacy policies were violated.
I am also not understanding why, if the parent brought in a note on 12/3, the child needed to be quarantined. If the note said the child was being treated for ringworm, there is no need to quarantine them. If the note said they just started treatment the day before, they should have not let the child into school until the following day.
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rojerono
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
Posted by Stacey1403
Posted by rojerono
Ringworm is a fungus. It's the same as jock itch or athlete's foot. It sucks and I really and sincerely hope that none of the other kids in your child's class get it.. but it's not an airborne thing and if he's being treated and if the school is preventing skin to skin contact with other children it's probably going to be fine.
If it is covered the chances of any kids getting it is slim. They would have to have skin to skin contact.
Exactly. My kids have been around other kids with it... precautions were taken and my children have never contracted it.
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JenBenMen
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
Posted by rojerono
Posted by Stacey1403
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Ringworm is a fungus. It's the same as jock itch or athlete's foot. It sucks and I really and sincerely hope that none of the other kids in your child's class get it.. but it's not an airborne thing and if he's being treated and if the school is preventing skin to skin contact with other children it's probably going to be fine.
If it is covered the chances of any kids getting it is slim. They would have to have skin to skin contact.
Exactly. My kids have been around other kids with it... precautions were taken and my children have never contracted it.
Numerous kids were subject to it PRIOR to being treated.
If some parents took a day off here and there it would help prevent the spread of these germs
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jerseypanda
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
Posted by JenBenMen
Numerous kids were subject to it PRIOR to being treated.
If some parents took a day off here and there it would help prevent the spread of these germs
I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you that mistakes were made by both the other parent as well as the daycare.
Also keep in mind that there will also be times when a contagious child is brought to school without the parent knowing they have something contagious yet.
For example, my DS was teething. He has a very low temperature... like 99.5. I sent him to school because he seemed fine otherwise and I knew a low temp could be related to the teething.
I got a call that afternoon to come pick him up because he had a 101.8 temp. It also turns out that they found out in his class that morning that another child in the class had coxsackie. So needless to say DS ended up with coxsackie and if I had known earlier that another child in the room had it, I probably would have kept him home that day with the slight temperature.
So technically you can say I brought my DS to school that day with a contagious disease... but I truly didn't know it.
ETA: Now in that situation, had the teachers in DS room told other parents that my son had coxsackie and another parent confronted me on it, giving me a hard time about why I left my sick child in school, I would have been VERY upset with the teachers for violating the privacy policy... and that is the main point I have been trying to make. Whether parents are right or wrong, the daycare has a responsibility to uphold the confidentiality policies.
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Re: RINGWORM AT DAYCARE
Posted by jerseypanda
Posted by JenBenMen
DH had it out with the kids father today...it was awesome
And this is exactly why daycare centers have confidentiality policies that state they are not allowed to say specifically what child has what illness, contagious or not.
Personally, I think it's wrong to confront another parent about this. The issue is with the daycare and I would have spoken with the director. Just look at how crazy parents can get when their kids are playing sports. I can only imagine how heated parents can get when confronting other parents about bringing their sick/contagious kids to school.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that I would have been annoyed to see a child in the school with ringworm and that the center should have given a general warning to the parents, but I don't believe you should have ever been told who had it or had your DH confront the parent. JMO.
ITA. Regardless of the parents' actions, I think it's completely inappropriate for the daycare to release health information about a child. If the parents knowingly brought their child to school sick, then the daycare director should've dealt with the issue. Parents should be notified if there's a serious illness going around, but the names of the children who have it should not be released.
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