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In reply to the discussion: I've never heard the nice Mother (across my street) EVER say "Fucking" until today. [View all]Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)54. If your child is sick, you find a way.
That's what my parents always did and they didn't have much money.
My dad would leave work and worry about getting into trouble later.
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I've never heard the nice Mother (across my street) EVER say "Fucking" until today. [View all]
BlueJazz
Jan 2013
OP
My kids brought home Impatago, lice and scabies because parents knowingly sent their kids to school
appleannie1
Jan 2013
#1
My daughter brought home head lice from dog knows where. Her teacher was amazed
gkhouston
Jan 2013
#41
104 is high for a child. Gee your mother should of had to at the doctors. But I understand and
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#9
I remember my mother getting yelled at because I got flu in HS and they had to come get me
Yo_Mama
Jan 2013
#25
Wow. I worked in schools for years and the 'perfect attendance award' was hardly prestigious..
Tikki
Jan 2013
#4
Yeah...you're right...I probably should have smashed her face in with my fist. She's a real bitch.
BlueJazz
Jan 2013
#35
Yeah, but most people catch colds and flu from sick people spewing bodily fluids.
hunter
Jan 2013
#21
Because there's only one strain of flu and no other contagious bugs floating around, right?
lynne
Jan 2013
#29
Sounds like conjunctivitis. Highly contagious. Sounds like you did the very right thing. nt
Javaman
Jan 2013
#60
a friends child wanted to go to school when he was sick because of a Perfect Attendance "promotion"
TeamPooka
Jan 2013
#37
Another factor that plays into this sick kid/missed school issue is the school
logosoco
Jan 2013
#44