well I personally find it stupid that they are not being specific about where H1N1 is.  If you are in direct contact with someone who has the flu, then you can take tamiflu to help prevent from getting it.  If they don’t tell you, how are you gonna know??  Several cases could be prevented if they would at least tell you if your child has come in direct contact.  I don’t know.  I guess they figure with all those kids in and out of the classrooms and cafeteria at different times that it’s pointless…

Motrin and Tylenol needs to be the least of their worries. I came in contact with meds that definitely were not OTC. However, if a student gives some kind of OTC medicine to someone who, unknown to them, was allergic to some ingredient within it than the effects can be fatal. So the reasoning behind it is understandable.

kickx i woulda failed after teh third week, so would most of the baseball team. oh the 80’s. especailly late spring and summer classes,

Sorry kx-I thought everyone would know what “on board” meant. I meant that I would give them the meds BEFORE they went to school. Sorry, nurse talk.
I know not to send meds to school with my kids.

Anywho. It does put the parents in a sticky situation. Feeling like if you want to keep your child home for health issues and worrying it is going to come back as some kind of neglect in the court. Frustrating.

Toritot, it must have been ancient history since you’ve been at USA. It is now the school’s policy to have you dropped ONE LETTER GRADE per absence after the first 3. I’ll be more than happy to email you scanned copies of my sullibi for this year!

Well I was talking about the baldwin county school system lol. But, I also went to south and I have to say they could care less if you were there or not. It was your money, if you wanted to waist then waist it. It was your option. But with the county if you don’t go to school then the parents can go to jail. That’s my point.

I know. I had the same issues when I was in school. The issue is the fact that there is so little courtesy towards time being missed. They put the time put in school before health related issues. Not all issues are that urgent, but even the ones that are they pay no mind to. Thankfully my first 2 semesters I was not sick and had no need for my absences, but not all people are that fortunate.

And in college, a note from mom doesn’t work. If you have bad cramps, you better suck it up and go to class or head on down to the god awful student clinic…(where they’ve been known to prescribe herpes medications for a staph infection and antidepressants for mono!)

Yeah, but if you’re going to be sickly in high school, you’re going to be sickly in college. If you really want, I can scan the syllibi for all of my classes this semester and email them to you. Then you can see that it’s not unusual to be allowed 3 absences (excused OR unexcused) then DROPPED A LETTER GRADE per day that you miss after that. And that’s in a SEMESTER. Not in a school year!