There is a petition from a high schooler to bring back asynchronous wednesdays.
One of his reasons is quarantine for exposure.
I never really understood the asynchronous Wednesday in the first place, especially once we learned more about how it is/isn’t spread (not surfaces). I haven’t seen research on whether or not there were actually benefits to a shortened day, either. Was a 5 hour school day significantly better than 7? Or did it just feel like it should be better?
I know everyone made the best decisions they could given the information we had at the time. I’m not saying anyone did anything wrong at the time. I’m just wondering what we will find as we (eventually) look back on all of this. No doubt, we’re going to look back and realize some stuff we did was pretty silly and unnecessary. But again, just doing the best we had with the information we had.
For our district, the purpose of remote Wednesday’s was to allow teachers time to spend with students that were fully remote. It also allowed remote students a day to come into a mostly empty building to receive special services like OT, PT, speech, etc.
sillygoosegirl , what do you mean about the dose being still totally up in the air? I think there are certainly questions about how the FDA will view the smaller trial population, manufacturing, dosing, etc., but from what I understand the 10 µg dose for age 5-11 has produced pretty good data. I haven't seen anything to suggest that at this point it's still "totally up in the air."
Articles keep saying we don't know what the dose will be. I cannot figure out why anyone actually thinks that, since we only have long term data on one dose. I want to scream every time I see it.
I think it might be more how they're administering the dose. So we know it will be the 10 µg dose, but with the current vial concentration that dose is so small it makes it difficult to properly pull. So it's still being decided if it will be diluted to make the volume larger and easier to accurately pull. If that makes sense? I saw a pediatrician post about it and it made sense how she explained it, I feel like I'm not relaying it well here lol.
Articles keep saying we don't know what the dose will be. I cannot figure out why anyone actually thinks that, since we only have long term data on one dose. I want to scream every time I see it.
I think it might be more how they're administering the dose. So we know it will be the 10 µg dose, but with the current vial concentration that dose is so small it makes it difficult to properly pull. So it's still being decided if it will be diluted to make the volume larger and easier to accurately pull. If that makes sense? I saw a pediatrician post about it and it made sense how she explained it, I feel like I'm not relaying it well here lol.
I was coming to say the same thing. I wonder if we both follow the same pediatrician on IG, hah!
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Oct 8, 2021 10:16:51 GMT -5
When I was little, my mom's school sick day philosophy was that unless you were obviously sick (fever, throwing up, super stuffy, etc), I went to school and then if I got worse/didn't get better, I'd go to the nurse and have her come get me. She always said "you almost always feel better after you've been up and moving around for a little while."
I know that probably want the best philosophy, but now having a kid that always seems to get magically better less than 2 hrs after we make the call to keep her home, I have to say I get it.
My kid woke up complaining that her throat hurt. So we did an early AM strep test and covid tests. Both negative.
School started 1 hr ago. Sore throat miraculously gone.
When I was little, my mom's school sick day philosophy was that unless you were obviously sick (fever, throwing up, super stuffy, etc), I went to school and then if I got worse/didn't get better, I'd go to the nurse and have her come get me. She always said "you almost always feel better after you've been up and moving around for a little while."
I know that probably want the best philosophy, but now having a kid that always seems to get magically better less than 2 hrs after we make the call to keep her home, I have to say I get it.
My kid woke up complaining that her throat hurt. So we did an early AM strep test and covid tests. Both negative.
School started 1 hr ago. Sore throat miraculously gone.
My usual rule (also from my mom) is if you are sick enough to be home, you are sick enough to stay in your bed and rest - no toys, nor screens, nor books. When you feel unquestionably better, it's a perfect day for make up school work or get ahead on homework or tackle a clean up job, but only screen free. It really helps cut down any malingering.
When I was little, my mom's school sick day philosophy was that unless you were obviously sick (fever, throwing up, super stuffy, etc), I went to school and then if I got worse/didn't get better, I'd go to the nurse and have her come get me. She always said "you almost always feel better after you've been up and moving around for a little while."
I know that probably want the best philosophy, but now having a kid that always seems to get magically better less than 2 hrs after we make the call to keep her home, I have to say I get it.
My kid woke up complaining that her throat hurt. So we did an early AM strep test and covid tests. Both negative.
School started 1 hr ago. Sore throat miraculously gone.
My usual rule (also from my mom) is if you are sick enough to be home, you are sick enough to stay in your bed and rest - no toys, nor screens, nor books. When you feel unquestionably better, it's a perfect day for make up school work or get ahead on homework or tackle a clean up job, but only screen free. It really helps cut down any malingering.
I forget - how old are your children, and how does this work for times when you have to be doing something important that really can't be intetrupted (leading a meeting, etc)?
Dd3 is now positive. So the only one who hasn’t gotten it is dh. Of course. She has very mild symptoms and I wouldn’t have tested her if we all didn’t have it. She only has a runny nose and cough at night.
Dd3 is now positive. So the only one who hasn’t gotten it is dh. Of course. She has very mild symptoms and I wouldn’t have tested her if we all didn’t have it. She only has a runny nose and cough at night.
When I was little, my mom's school sick day philosophy was that unless you were obviously sick (fever, throwing up, super stuffy, etc), I went to school and then if I got worse/didn't get better, I'd go to the nurse and have her come get me. She always said "you almost always feel better after you've been up and moving around for a little while."
I know that probably want the best philosophy, but now having a kid that always seems to get magically better less than 2 hrs after we make the call to keep her home, I have to say I get it.
My kid woke up complaining that her throat hurt. So we did an early AM strep test and covid tests. Both negative.
School started 1 hr ago. Sore throat miraculously gone.
Are you me? We went through this on Monday and my husband was angry I kept my kid home. I knew odds were good that I was getting played but my kid goes from really well to really sick to really well so fast. The number of times I’ve taken him to the doctor with all obvious symptoms resolved and left with a major diagnosis is high (including an ER visit where the ped thought I was crazy since his fever was gone that ended with nearly a week in-patient with pneumonia). I ended up with all his symptoms about 36 hours later so I felt vindicated. (Not COVID).
When I was little, my mom's school sick day philosophy was that unless you were obviously sick (fever, throwing up, super stuffy, etc), I went to school and then if I got worse/didn't get better, I'd go to the nurse and have her come get me. She always said "you almost always feel better after you've been up and moving around for a little while."
I know that probably want the best philosophy, but now having a kid that always seems to get magically better less than 2 hrs after we make the call to keep her home, I have to say I get it.
My kid woke up complaining that her throat hurt. So we did an early AM strep test and covid tests. Both negative.
School started 1 hr ago. Sore throat miraculously gone.
That used to be my way of doing things too, but these kids know that COVID has made everything different. DD pulled this on me NINE times last year (5th). I could have killed her. I finally started driving her in to school b/c I learned to refuse to let her watch tv all day and she'd get bored and feel better. She's already done it once this year and I told her never again. But my kids are also REALLY bad at faking it so I would know if they didn't actually feel good.
My usual rule (also from my mom) is if you are sick enough to be home, you are sick enough to stay in your bed and rest - no toys, nor screens, nor books. When you feel unquestionably better, it's a perfect day for make up school work or get ahead on homework or tackle a clean up job, but only screen free. It really helps cut down any malingering.
I forget - how old are your children, and how does this work for times when you have to be doing something important that really can't be intetrupted (leading a meeting, etc)?
I'm very interested in employing this.
7 and 10. In practice, they are often actually sick, so tucking them in, taking the distractions out of the room and closing the door is usually all it takes and they sleep - unless they are throwing up or something and then I can't really do anything important anyway. We also have a small house so I'm right outside their rooms in the main living room area. If they won't sleep, then I set them up with an especially dull math worksheet or other rote exercise "so they won't fall behind." Lots of sympathy but no actual fun. lol.
We don’t allow screens on sick days. My daughter can tend toward “I don’t feeeeel good” so we have to make sick days pretty boring. Rest, read books, draw.
She had some sniffles Tuesday and I gave her Claritin and sent her to school figuring it’s her allergies. Wednesday she had sniffles and a cough so we kept her home, gave her a binax now test (negative). Thursday kept her home again, she had a second home test - negative. Since there was never any fever and she was in great spirits and actually wanted to go to school I dropped her off today. 30 min later I get a call from the nurse - she has to go home and can’t come back until she gets a negative pcr.
Now to be fair she IS coughing a bit still but sometimes coughs just last for weeks. But I guess the negative pcr will allow her back to school.
Now I’ve been waiting since 9am to hear back from the pediatrician about her test. So at this rate given the slow result time too, we’ll be lucky if she can go back Tuesday I guess.
Also the fair is in town and we planned to go tomorrow - now I feel like we can’t go even though I feel 99% sure she probably doesn’t have Covid after two negative binax tests? But if the pcr doesn’t come back by Monday the fair leaves for another year. I just tried to break it to them we mightn’t be able to go and my son started crying of course. He asks about the fair all year.
It’s all so exhausting. With work being super busy right now too I feel like I’m the verge of tears a lot. The child vaccines will help, I keep telling myself.
We’re riding the Covid seesaw this weekend… you know, the weekend where my in-laws were finally going to watch our kids so we could celebrate our big(ish) anniversary, the weekend that I’ve been looking forward to for a solid year and a half.
Yesterday my vaccinated husband’s vaccinated colleague told him she has covid, though we finally determined ourselves that their short in person conversation where she at least was masked(?) on Monday likely wouldn’t have counted as a close contact. However, they can take off their masks at their desks and they’re all still breathing the same circulated air in the building, so he was a little concerned. I was able to snag OTC test kits at CVS - they had five two packs and I bought two of them, trying to cover my family but also being conscious of the other people who might need them. While we were still figuring it out, I was trying, and failing, not to feel extreme annoyance at this woman for attending a wedding probably partially maskless last weekend, and potentially at a minimum, ruining my upcoming weekend. (I’m not proud of that. Mind you, we had been to an indoor concert the night before, so I have approximately zero room for feeling high and mighty - though I wore an N95 the entire time and IDs and vax cards were checked at the entrance.) He tested negative, for whatever that’s worth. So, we think, things are fine, we’re fine, and plus it seems like they weren’t actually contacts… we can still go away.
Then, I was tucked away working for awhile last night, not paying super close attention to my kids, and at about 8:00 the little one is like, “hey mom, everyone in my class is all sniffly, just like I am!” Wait, what? My husband and I exchanged glances. I just went to check on her this morning and she’s definitely breathing noisily through her mouth, stuffed up. We’re going to mask in the house today and use one of the other tests on her when she wakes up, but we already called off my in-laws. Hopefully, of course, it’s “nothing,” but dammit! I hate everything. The kid approval cannot come fast enough. We are so fucking close and yet so far away.
ETA: Little one has screamed quite a bit about bodily autonomy and will not let us near her to try to test. She recently underwent an eval and was found to have some anxious tendencies and aversion to things near her face, so that’s fun. Big one has had a fit about her own weekend’s disappointment and everything else under the tweenage sun. In-laws said they would still come for the day since they are “feeling better today,” after apparently not feeling great yesterday, after our unvaccinated adult niece was coughing in their house on Thursday. Uh, no. It’s not even 9am. Argh. At least my husband’s making me laugh about this.
When I was little, my mom's school sick day philosophy was that unless you were obviously sick (fever, throwing up, super stuffy, etc), I went to school and then if I got worse/didn't get better, I'd go to the nurse and have her come get me. She always said "you almost always feel better after you've been up and moving around for a little while."
I know that probably want the best philosophy, but now having a kid that always seems to get magically better less than 2 hrs after we make the call to keep her home, I have to say I get it.
My kid woke up complaining that her throat hurt. So we did an early AM strep test and covid tests. Both negative.
School started 1 hr ago. Sore throat miraculously gone.
Well this was every 80s mom’s philosophy lol.
I’m very lucky (knock on wood) that my kids don’t get sick all that often. We live in Florida, it’s hot and we sleep with fans on year round and can sometimes be mouth breathers. This frequently makes me (and now my kids) wake up with a scratchy throat: Not necessarily “sore” but I have spent a lot of time trying to teach them how to discern the two!
Within days of regulators clearing the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine for younger children, federal officials say they will begin pushing out as many as 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine to immunize school-age kids across the United States in a bid to control the coronavirus pandemic.
The kickoff of the long-awaited children’s vaccination campaign is expected as soon as early November. And this time around, the government has purchased enough doses to give two shots to all 28 million eligible children ages 5 to 11.
Still, federal and state officials and health providers say that vaccinating children is likely to be a more challenging process than it was for adults and teens. The federal government plans to allocate the initial shots according to a formula to ensure equitable distribution, likely based on a state’s population of eligible children, according to a federal health official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share planning. Enlisting besieged health providers and persuading reluctant parents will complicate the process.