Why would you want sickness to spread at schools? This will get kids sick, it will get their teachers sick, kids will take it home to parents and get them sick. What’s the impact to education but also to the wider workforce and productivity?
Why would you want sickness to spread at schools? This will get kids sick, it will get their teachers sick, kids will take it home to parents and get them sick. What’s the impact to education but also to the wider workforce and productivity?
I never said they weren’t susceptible to getting a cold I said they wouldn’t catch it every time they encountered a child with a cold and they’re even less likely to catch it after getting the flu vaccine.
You are acting like this is a normal thing but this has only become the normal after covid. After covid everyone is paranoid about the slightest sickness and its coming at a cost of education. Before covid parents would make a decision on if their kids were sick enough to justify staying home.
After covid the sick days have doubled in the span of a year and more compared to pre covid. I’m stating that the benefit of teachers not encountering as many sick children is not worth the amount of time of school children are having. My reasoning is firstly that advising kids to stay home does not stop teachers from encountering sick children it only reduces the likelihood. Secondly a teacher does not get sick every time they encounter a sick child so if they have sick children in their class they will be fine for most of the year. They might get sick once or twice over winter despite encountering sick children every day.
How about you provide some reasoning as to why you think that it’s a good thing kids sickness rates have doubled in the past year.
You know in other, arguably more civilized countries, it is the norm to stay home, or at the very least wear a mask, when sick even with a “little cold” right? The “fuck it they can go to school” attitude is not universal, and these other countries don’t suffer from it.
Going to work sick or sending sick kids to school has always been stupid. It spreads disease, which kids take home and then infect parents, who go to work and spread it further. Having a cold greatly reduced learning and workplace efficiency.
Perhaps we should try something different, no?
My reasoning? It’s a good thing, because people are actually staying home when they’re sick, rather than infecting their coworkers.
Coworkers? We’re talking about school children. You’ve got no idea what you’re even arguing about you are just reacting to the headline.
No he’s absolutely right. Children do not exist in a vacuum. Kids bring illnesses home with them from school, then parents get sick. This is how it works.
Ok and when those sick kids come home and possibly get those adults get sick then the adults can take a sick day off work. What’s your point here?
and tired overworked parents who are not sleeping properly or eating properly are way more susceptible to getting a “little cold” and it turning into something more severe. A kid will beat a virus in a few days, the parent may take weeks
Where do you think these diseases end up?