Ugh. I wish CF people controlled the media. Some guy on the radio was polling people about letting sick kids stay home, and he said that if his kids “just” have a sore throat or a runny nose, he makes them go to school. I have bad news for you duh, if your kids have a sore throat and runny nose they ARE ALREADY SICK. The sore throat is their lymph nodes I think swelling. It and the runny nose are both immune responses because something is ALREADY in their body. Then the dad said “but if they’re whooping they can stay home.” I’m sorry, what? Whooping? I’ve never heard that in my life. I’ve heard of whooping cough, though. And if your kids get whooping cough, you’re a bad parent for not vaccinating them.
I mean really. I’m not a fan of gentle discipline and shit. If my sister or I were bad we got spanked or smacked, etc. but even by our standards, that’s insane. If we were sick we were allowed to stay home. And no, we didn’t take advantage of that or lie. We learned not to lie to our parents and if we thought we needed a mental break, we were forthcoming about that too. There were standards of course, we didn’t skip a lot. Probably fewer than 5 days a year.
This is just ridiculous though. This duh is going to get everyone else’s kids sick if he’s telling them they have to go short of whooping cough. But what do I know PMYABP, right?
Lock him up or put him down.
Stolen from Shiny.