The worst is when they say they can't because they're home sick!!!!! So you get to stay home and rest but your child has to suck it up and continue their day??
Ah yes, because then we have a sick kid, and a sick mother thats doped up on cold meds, has horribly slow processing as a result, can't see well through the fever haze, has a blinding headache, is vomiting everywhere, or is sneezing every five seconds operating a vehicle on the road with other drivers and trying to drive her child💀 much better alternative
@@LexitaMai But we also have a sick kid that's doped up on cold meds, has horribly slow processing as a result, can't see well through their fever have, has a blinding headache, is vomiting everywhere, or is sneezing every 5 seconds having to suck it up and continue their day
@@LexitaMai maybe mum should’ve kept her kid home if she was sick then huh? No, let’s send her to school and then she can spread all her nasty ass gems to the rest of the class and staff. Then you can drive to school in that haze you already described or, even better, have the hazy sick kid take themselves home.
Once when school rang home for me, my brother answered saying "pizza parlour, how can i help?" Receptionist hung up to tell me, i had to tell her my brother was fucking with her and to call again. She did, my dad answered, my brother got in trouble lol
This is so sad cus my dad would honestly drop everything and come get me everytime I broke a leg or an arm or just got sick. Which was a lot at that time 😀 I used to break a bone every time another one heals😭
ayo i had the same kind of experience! my mom worked half an hour away but i was constantly breaking bones or dealing with chronic pains so i missed a lot of school and she would always pick me up
You are so lucky my parents would try everything to not have to pick me up I got sick a lot and was in a car accident that almost killed me when I was in 9th grade but nothing ever mattered I was just always awful for not sucking it up and pushing through my school day anyway and if one of them had to come get me it was hell to pay I vivdly remember laying in the nurse's office dreading being picked up because I am obviously already really sick etc but now I'm going to spend the drive home and the rest of the night getting yelled at and shit for them needing to pick me up etc thinking I'm faking when I definitely wasn't just ugh makes me so mad still especially since I have life long chronic health issues that just keep getting worse 🙃 This abuse still really upsets me 😭
@@nicolehegarty4749 I hope you feel alright, I feel sad knowing that you have chronic pain and illness and your parents aren't in the mood to pick you up :(
this makes me remember how my mom got SO angry when she had to pick me up because i had the flu. she yelled at me the entire car ride home about how i shouldn't have called her and a one hundred degree fever is nothing, etc, etc. she did pick me up though.
This! (I’m a preschool teacher) We had a student at who felt bad and had a fever of 103. I was the only one vaccinated at the time so I sat with him and held him. Mom didn’t come for OVER THREE HOURS!!!! We were going like, do we need to call an ambulance or something?!?! I don’t understand how parents do this when the school reaches out and says they’re child is sick…
That’s so awful. I can’t imagine hearing my child has a fever, high out not, and not doing something to try and help. I’ve left work early to pick up from kids ffs. You do what you have to for your babies. It may not be pretty, it may get ugly, but you make do. I’m a kindergarten teacher, I see it all the time. Our district had it happen so much last year that there now asking teachers to report parents who do this frequently. I had one girl who came in 5 days in row with a fever, hacking cough, sneezing and vomiting, she’d throw up and be left in the clinic all day. Dad didn’t care and mom refused to leave work because “that’s his job! He wanted custody!” She’d vomit constantly and would pass out throughout the day. She wasn’t sick enough that we could call an ambulance without getting in some trouble, and her parents would defiantly try to start trouble if we did. It was awful. They ended up having to call the police for abandonment on the fifth day because she missed her bus and dad wouldn’t come to get her when called. It’s awful. No child deserves to be treated like that.
I personally worked an hour and a half away, and for a week out of the year of I left early or missed any work it was automatic termination, which meant we'd be homeless. So it was either I risk my son sitting at school with capable adults who knew when to call an ambulance, or I could go pick him up and then be homeless. (We had zero support & were living in a tiny town with no jobs, trying to save to move closer). 🤷♀️ We did eventually move closer and it was much better tho, esp cuz I got a call at least weekly. 😭
@@alyshay82597 how could you get in trouble for calling an ambulance for a little girl that's throwing up and PASSING OUT... Especially for FIVE DAYS. That should be child neglect if nothing else!
@@JBunny7482 district policies. She did not have a high enough fever despite all the symptoms she had, unfortunately our district has gotten in trouble with parents in the past for it so now all schools have to be careful. Some parents genuinely don’t care if their child is passing out or throwing up. I remember her dad telling me she was faking to go home early, this little girl who loved school and cried all day on the last day faked being sick to go home when she literally spent everyday saying “I don’t want to go home”. I didn’t buy it. They now need a fever of at least 102. It’s ridiculous though when you consider how several issues can exist WITHOUT a fever at all or without causing a high fever, but lawsuits kill school districts some parents will sue over anything so you have to walk on eggshells even when it comes to something this serious. Her parents threatened sue over having the police called when they literally refused to pick their child up after she missed her bus. Me and several other teachers are lobbying against the decision or at minimum for more symptoms that we can legally put down for an ambulance, it’s dangerous to the kids and ultimately that’s who we’re here for. So far things are looking promising but if it doesn’t change I’m leaving. Schools are nuts right now.
@@alyshay82597 wow omg I had no idea I'm so sorry you're district is going through this 😭 even with covid you don't have to have a high fever at all, it just makes no sense. I hope you guys reach your goal, the world needs more proactive ppl like you and your group 💕💕
Omg I am so the opposite if my 7 YO’s school nurse calls me and says my kid is sick I’m leaving work then and there ASAP. I have an immediate freebie excuse to leave work. Also spending time with my son is my favorite thing so we get to lay in bed, snuggle, be lazy since he’s sick and watch movies sounds like a win win to me. Even if he just needed a mental health day and didn’t feel school then I’m there in a heartbeat and we will go get ice cream and go home and play video games or something. Unless it becomes excessive kids are people too and they need their off time as well.
I never lied either and my parents knew this but still anytime I was sick and needed to go home early which happened to me a lot I have health problems plus I was in a car accident that almost killed me so yeah but even with all of that I was abused every time I got sent home sick 😭
I only ever remember lying about being sick, bc I was being severely bullied when I was little. and basically abused by my teacher, bc she didn't like my skin colour (I was really pale white in an all dark/brown country) and after those few times I have never lied about being sick. but my parents always have a punishment whenever I had to miss school for reasons that the doctor gave, like I got really bad tonsillitis in 11th grade, and broke my ankle. yet they always say I exaggerate, and that I'm lazy. I'm on my last yr and keep getting health issues outta nowhere, as I've been pretty healthy as a child and suddenly the most important school yr I'm just sick 24/7, I just wish that parents believed more and stopped assuming that bc they lied in school to get out, that their kids do the same.
My step mom (who was a nurse) thought I was faking heat exhaustion picked me up took me back to her work (ER) and proceeded to have me chug cold water obv not a good idea I started shaking uncontrably she didn't think I faking after that 🙃
My mom told the nurse to give me the phone got it and was told “ Eliza your fine you ONLY have 5 hours of school left” Edit: 1k likes tysm 😭 Edit: oomph I’ve never had this many likes tysm Edit: tysm 🥳
One time I was waiting in sick bay for an hour and a half before my dad picked me up. It was for a good reason though, he was three suburbs over visiting his dad in the hospital and it was very rainy that day. I watched him on the find my friends app on my phone after the first twenty minutes passed.
My mom always insists on talking to me to see how i feel from my perspective before deciding on whether or not i need to come home and im so grateful for that
My school wouldn't even send you to the nurse, let alone call, unless you were "bleeding, dying, or throwing up" this is a direct quote from my 6th grade math teacher as I threw up on my bff's sneakers 😂
I had high fever and was white as a sheet when my school nurse intercepted me on my way home after my exam, she made me lie down and I was like, can't I just go home? But she insisted I at least lie down a while and only when I finally convinced her nobody was gonna come get me anyway, she let me go home. Still aced the exam though 😅
I remember since my dad lives 45 minutes away he told me if I ever go to the nurses office again he’d take all my devices away. I suffered in silence with raging headaches and aching stomachs until my school year ended
Haha, this is relatable. When I was in fourth grade I was sick but my mom sent me to school anyways (I always walked to school so she wasn't with me) as soon as I entered the building, not even my classroom yet I threw up. I then waited in the sick room for an hour before my brother came to get me.
Once I was puking at school and my parents where like an hour away doing something and my moms friend came and got me she's still her friend today and an awesome lady
I remember one time when I was sick and my mum was working so I literally walked myself home lmfao 🤣 (I only live like 5 minutes away so it’s not a big deal, everyone trusted me haha)
I did the same! My sister was home with a contagious viral illness. And I felt fine but had developed the rash. Took a bit of convincing to get the receptionists to let me walk home. Even though I was 15. But my dad was on nights and as I was infectious, but felt totally fine we all agreed it wasn't worth waking him for when my mum was already informed.
@@tj8939 we had automatic flush toilets so they couldn't and when i was little i threw up a lot in the classrom trashcan so they had evidence that in the past at least i had thrown up really often
@@tj8939 like i said, i actually threw up a lot before i started faking it because i had motion sickness, but regardless of the reason they had to send you home
Ultra realism: Maisie’s dad works mornings and Maisie’s mum told the school to call him whenever she’s ill because he can actually pick her up, and they never do
When you’re a working mom and only get 14 vacation days out of 365 days a year and have a kid and I’m blessed because most mothers get no paid time leave at all.
Luckily my mom was able to get me and sometimes even my dad because near the end of sixth grade (also right before covid so end of school ig) I was almost always in the nurse’s for my back or my head hurting and we still don’t know why but I had my own bottle of advil in her office it was so bad. My German teacher marked me absent because I was in the nurses. Damn bro not my fault ik I’m pain but I digress.
Brooo this is so accurate!! And then she'll make you wait like an hour too. My mom would ask if I'm bleeding and if not i had to suck it up and go back to class
My mum had to pick me up so frequently in primary school. I would be in the nurse’s office, throwing up, and then as soon as I left with my mum I would be magically cured.
@@essie.2.023 they made a massive deal of me asking to take a personal leave day to step in to care for my disabled grandparents in an emergency, so I know they wouldn't have let me leave early to pick up a sick child. In all fairness, people with different managers probably would have been allowed, mine was just abysmal in general buy specifically didn't seem to like me.
Once I injured my arm at school and the bone went out of place. The office told me they called my mum but she couldn't pick me up because she was busy at work. A few years later I bring it up on a conversation and she told me they never called her but if she knew she would've came straight away to pick me up...
My mum was a nurse. She would quiz the school receptionist (we didn't have school nurses back in the day) about my symptoms and make an assessment on the need for me to come home. It was tough! 😄
Fun fact: my school rang my mum and my mum asked those questions and they said "I think we should call safe guarding" my mum then said "I know my daughter I'm the mum if I say she's okay. She's okay" obviously my mum didn't mean to sound like a bad mum or anything she was busy in work I ended up having to go to hospital cuz I had a concussion but obviously my mum didn't know that so she got me ice cream
I feel so lucky to have a mom with a flexible job so she can drive a half hour to and from school and even a bad day mentally she'll get me home early (I don't over use it tho)
One time I was sick 3 days in a row and got sent home each day and the office lady told me on the third day if i was sick again she wasnt gonna call my mom. the next day me and 2 other girls were sick. Safe to say she belived me and called my mom
It was kinda the opposite for me. Being an only child, my parents were/are overprotective. They'd come get me if I had a cold haha. But as the years went on obviously things changed and I just sucked it up.
Lol my mum worked from home when I was in school but I was always to scared to tell someone that I was sick so someone would find me crying in sickness and my mum would come get me 😂
Once I had very sharp pain in my stomach to the point I couldn’t walk or stand up straight so I called home and even though my mom’s office is 40 minutes away from my school, she came as fast as she could and took me to the emergency.
Lol I used to fake sick all the time, but when we went to the nurse we could dial the number so I’d dial the number to my best friends cell phone and she’d act like my mom and I’d get excused and vice versa
Brings back memories of only being allowed to come home/stay home if I A) had a fever or B) had to throw up. Wasn't 'really sick' in other instances. I so badly wanted to ask her if I 'wasn't sick' when I had laryngitis
I used to work in an office where parents were literally penalised for having to leave work though to pick kids up from school if they got a call. The managers would say that they should have someone else like a grandparent that can pick them up or a childminder and would be really funny about letting them leave, demanding they work the time back etc. I know this video probably isn't hinting at that, but some people in the comments are so brutal 😂 not all parents can just drop work so quickly when there is a possibility that the child just wants to skip school and be picked up. (And before you say "just get another job that's better" it's not that easy is it)
My mother had to come get me one time because I was really really bad off at school one time. And she has a whole attitude about having to come get me. An hour had passed and when they called my mom again to see where she was, she said she was at work still.
My mum used to say “is she being sick? Is she struggling to walk? Has she broken anything or can you see bone? Is she struggling to breathe? Is she unable to concentrate? Then she’s fine.” She knows when I’m sick because I’ll be groggy and horrible in the morning. I’d get sent home half of the time as a mercy because kids were being horrible again.
My daughter was good at faking it so the secretary at school would ring me and say do you want to pick her up or are you a bit busy and need her to hold out? I said busy and she told my daughter mum is a bit busy right now head back to class and we will check you later! We had a good laugh and my child gave up eventually. That secretary is worth her weight in gold❤
It is tricky sometimes. My oldest son has acid reflux and 3-4x a year I get a call about him vomiting. We ( the school nurse and I learned) to give him TUMS and send him back to class then I would put him on GERD diet and antiavid for 1 week. He’d get thru it.
Not every employer will let their employee leave easily. I understand the struggle. I do also understand that, you can just leave and get your child, it's more important than any job. But in this case, I guess, there'll repercussion... sadly.
I got sick at school in senior year. It was before first period had started. I’d driven myself to school, walked into the building at 7:45, and threw up in front of a professor. They wouldn’t let me drive myself home, so they called my parents. An hour went by without a word, and because my house was only a 15 minute drive (10 if you’re a bit aggressive), I should’ve heard something. Turns out, my parents hadn’t been really awake when the school called, and they fell back asleep. I told the nurse that they were out front, and then I drove myself home.
literally my dad leaving me to take the bus home after nearly passing out four hours earlier from a blood donation...except i went to an American public school. i was supposed to take the train back to the city after school, but the nurse insisted i at least take the school bus home. he just couldnt/wouldnt leave work.
On my sick days, mum would take me to work with her. At the hospital. She was a medical tribunal doctor and she would just put me under her desk with a pillow and I would sleep 🥲 This was back in the 90s though, not sure it would fly nowadays 😂
Because of covid if your sick my school makes you go home, and I get nauseous a lot I gone up to the office so many times the office ladies don't even need gk ask my name😃. Once my mum took like 2 hours when she said she'd be 40 minutes so I slept in the sick bay
My mom told the teacher to told me that if it gets worse I should get home by the 1 pm bus. It was 8.45 and I had 20 min walk from the bus stop in 39°C
Yup this and when no parent/carer or emergency contact for the child has no phone on them. I remember once we had a child with a really bad sickness bug and no one answered their phone for 2 hrs 😡😡 aventually grandad came but i could tell he wasnt happy and then the mum tried to drop the child off next day at school saying oh she only been a little bit sick on the way to school like no turn around and go back home 😅😅 poor kid and she was only 4 years old 😢
If that were me with a stomach bug AT SCHOOL, I would walk home at that point. Ain’t nothing worse (now I’ve never experienced it, but seen other kids that have) than puking in-front of the whole class. I have horrible fear of vomit, so uh yeah home it is. Thank goodness my grandmas always home to unlock the door😅
I used to be “sick” a lot. Mother always told me to walk home (5 min walk) if I just had stomachaches, headache, feeling nauseous and so on. She would check on me during her break, because I am 95% sure she knew I faked it way too many times. But if my fever was up and I actually was sick, she would stay home or come home earlier. Call me every hour and so on. If kindergarten calls me and tells me my son is sick, I tell them I’ll be there in an hour (I go to a school an hour away) and I’ll pick him up instantly. If I’m home I’ll be there in 10 minutes. Ain’t no way my child is being anywhere else than with me if he is sick. I know the importance of feeling loved and cared for when you’re literally feeling like crap. Making sure he got everything he needs.
We had to send a child home because of behavioral reasons one time. The parent got there literally 5 hours later and all they said was "sorry it took so long" like...
This reminds me of the mum who knows their child is damn good at faking it, you'll take the day off like damn, you are ill, then an hour in its well some games would help, then jumping around like in the gymnastics lmao 🤣
i feel so bad for my parents bc i fell one day and sprained my elbow. my dad came and got me but it took us 4 hours at the er just to figure out it’s wasn’t broken 🙄
You do know kids fake shit all the time to get out off school? Or they make a big deal of a small stuff? Some parents have quite demanding jobs, and while of course they leave to pick them up, if it happens often enough…you get in these situations.
@@javierhernandez1555 sometimes kids fake things for a reason. I’ve had my grandma(mom was working) pick me up because I was upset over being picked on. I told my mom and grandma I didn’t feel the best. There are reasons.
I once had the flu, and I was quite literally unable to breathe, I had terrible aches, and I had a fever. I tried school but in third hour it was the only time I could go to the nurse. And the nurse wasn’t even gonna call me down instead one of the best adults in the building had taken me to the nurse, and because of working schedules it took 2 1/2 hours for someone to pick me up it sucked. A couple weeks later I get really bad back pain, 30 minutes into school I get picked up because I was in so much pain. Turns out I had kidney stones (keep in mind, I’m 13)😅 I don’t like going to the nurse but just end up going there to often to count. (I a also blatantly avoid going until I can’t take it anymore)
In my country we don't even have school nurses, if you're sick, you suck it up. When I was in my teens once, I walked myself across town with a fever and picked up my dad's birthday cake from the bakery on the way home. As a younger kid, though, I had to stay at the school until whatever ungodly hour I was due to be picked up, through whatever afterschool activities I was enrolled in. Once, they just gave me a trashcan to throw up into in the corner until it was time to be picked up.
I got pretty sick one time in 5th grade. I started to not feel well during a math test in the morning, so I went to the office and immediately threw up. The office called both my parents which couldn’t pick me up because they were at work. Stayed the rest of the day throwing up in the nurse’s office with a high fever and I couldn’t eat anything. Then I had to ride the bus home because they still couldn’t pick me up. Ended up throwing up on the bus too. I had to carry a bag with me the rest of the ride just in case I threw up again. I felt better 2 days later and my parents made me go to school so I wouldn’t miss. Made it through the day but when I got on the bus I ended up throwing up again.
Poor other kids and bus driver. It sucks when they have to be exposed because of situations like this. Its disgusting to be trapped near a vomiting person.
I’m both lucky and unlocks because I’ve always struggled with gas and stomach issues so 8/10 when I called home sick or my mom called the school saying that I was sick I genuinely felt like shit.
The worst is when they say they can't because they're home sick!!!!! So you get to stay home and rest but your child has to suck it up and continue their day??
Ah yes, because then we have a sick kid, and a sick mother thats doped up on cold meds, has horribly slow processing as a result, can't see well through the fever haze, has a blinding headache, is vomiting everywhere, or is sneezing every five seconds operating a vehicle on the road with other drivers and trying to drive her child💀 much better alternative
@@LexitaMai But we also have a sick kid that's doped up on cold meds, has horribly slow processing as a result, can't see well through their fever have, has a blinding headache, is vomiting everywhere, or is sneezing every 5 seconds having to suck it up and continue their day
@@LexitaMai Do you suggest that it's ok to spread that debilitating sickness you suggest the mom has to her child and then to the whole class?
@@LexitaMai maybe mum should’ve kept her kid home if she was sick then huh? No, let’s send her to school and then she can spread all her nasty ass gems to the rest of the class and staff. Then you can drive to school in that haze you already described or, even better, have the hazy sick kid take themselves home.
@@kajxk9028 Your response made me love you! Sassy Kaj!
"Can she walk?"
"Can she breathe?"
*"Good" hangs up*
And then I would ask the Nurse "Did she sound mad?"
This is heartbreaking
Same 🙁
Once when school rang home for me, my brother answered saying "pizza parlour, how can i help?" Receptionist hung up to tell me, i had to tell her my brother was fucking with her and to call again. She did, my dad answered, my brother got in trouble lol
Haha worth it though
That’s pretty funny though ngl
@@Sammm419 oh definitely, had a good laugh when i felt better
@@andrewbyrnes6389 even the teachers had a good chuckle out of it lol
My mum got this call a lot when I was a kid hahaha
Welp
Same… turns out I had a brain tumour- not fun
@@molly.dog8brooke792
Yikes
@@molly.dog8brooke792Damn ik it’s been a year since u commented but r u better now?❤
This is so sad cus my dad would honestly drop everything and come get me everytime I broke a leg or an arm or just got sick. Which was a lot at that time 😀 I used to break a bone every time another one heals😭
The thing is, not everyone can even afford to miss days of work if we assumed that she was a single parent
@@_Sonder_ or if the boss is a jerk
ayo i had the same kind of experience! my mom worked half an hour away but i was constantly breaking bones or dealing with chronic pains so i missed a lot of school and she would always pick me up
You are so lucky my parents would try everything to not have to pick me up I got sick a lot and was in a car accident that almost killed me when I was in 9th grade but nothing ever mattered I was just always awful for not sucking it up and pushing through my school day anyway and if one of them had to come get me it was hell to pay I vivdly remember laying in the nurse's office dreading being picked up because I am obviously already really sick etc but now I'm going to spend the drive home and the rest of the night getting yelled at and shit for them needing to pick me up etc thinking I'm faking when I definitely wasn't just ugh makes me so mad still especially since I have life long chronic health issues that just keep getting worse 🙃 This abuse still really upsets me 😭
@@nicolehegarty4749 I hope you feel alright, I feel sad knowing that you have chronic pain and illness and your parents aren't in the mood to pick you up :(
this makes me remember how my mom got SO angry when she had to pick me up because i had the flu. she yelled at me the entire car ride home about how i shouldn't have called her and a one hundred degree fever is nothing, etc, etc. she did pick me up though.
That's straight up emotional abuse,my mom would have dropped everything if I had a bad fever or vomited.
That is work pressure...or just pressure in general. Need to vent...not the correct way but ...
mine wouldn’t care but would at the same time
This! (I’m a preschool teacher) We had a student at who felt bad and had a fever of 103. I was the only one vaccinated at the time so I sat with him and held him. Mom didn’t come for OVER THREE HOURS!!!! We were going like, do we need to call an ambulance or something?!?! I don’t understand how parents do this when the school reaches out and says they’re child is sick…
That’s so awful. I can’t imagine hearing my child has a fever, high out not, and not doing something to try and help. I’ve left work early to pick up from kids ffs. You do what you have to for your babies. It may not be pretty, it may get ugly, but you make do.
I’m a kindergarten teacher, I see it all the time. Our district had it happen so much last year that there now asking teachers to report parents who do this frequently.
I had one girl who came in 5 days in row with a fever, hacking cough, sneezing and vomiting, she’d throw up and be left in the clinic all day. Dad didn’t care and mom refused to leave work because “that’s his job! He wanted custody!”
She’d vomit constantly and would pass out throughout the day. She wasn’t sick enough that we could call an ambulance without getting in some trouble, and her parents would defiantly try to start trouble if we did. It was awful. They ended up having to call the police for abandonment on the fifth day because she missed her bus and dad wouldn’t come to get her when called. It’s awful. No child deserves to be treated like that.
I personally worked an hour and a half away, and for a week out of the year of I left early or missed any work it was automatic termination, which meant we'd be homeless. So it was either I risk my son sitting at school with capable adults who knew when to call an ambulance, or I could go pick him up and then be homeless. (We had zero support & were living in a tiny town with no jobs, trying to save to move closer). 🤷♀️ We did eventually move closer and it was much better tho, esp cuz I got a call at least weekly. 😭
@@alyshay82597 how could you get in trouble for calling an ambulance for a little girl that's throwing up and PASSING OUT... Especially for FIVE DAYS. That should be child neglect if nothing else!
@@JBunny7482 district policies. She did not have a high enough fever despite all the symptoms she had, unfortunately our district has gotten in trouble with parents in the past for it so now all schools have to be careful. Some parents genuinely don’t care if their child is passing out or throwing up. I remember her dad telling me she was faking to go home early, this little girl who loved school and cried all day on the last day faked being sick to go home when she literally spent everyday saying “I don’t want to go home”. I didn’t buy it.
They now need a fever of at least 102. It’s ridiculous though when you consider how several issues can exist WITHOUT a fever at all or without causing a high fever, but lawsuits kill school districts some parents will sue over anything so you have to walk on eggshells even when it comes to something this serious. Her parents threatened sue over having the police called when they literally refused to pick their child up after she missed her bus.
Me and several other teachers are lobbying against the decision or at minimum for more symptoms that we can legally put down for an ambulance, it’s dangerous to the kids and ultimately that’s who we’re here for. So far things are looking promising but if it doesn’t change I’m leaving. Schools are nuts right now.
@@alyshay82597 wow omg I had no idea I'm so sorry you're district is going through this 😭 even with covid you don't have to have a high fever at all, it just makes no sense. I hope you guys reach your goal, the world needs more proactive ppl like you and your group 💕💕
Omg I am so the opposite if my 7 YO’s school nurse calls me and says my kid is sick I’m leaving work then and there ASAP. I have an immediate freebie excuse to leave work. Also spending time with my son is my favorite thing so we get to lay in bed, snuggle, be lazy since he’s sick and watch movies sounds like a win win to me. Even if he just needed a mental health day and didn’t feel school then I’m there in a heartbeat and we will go get ice cream and go home and play video games or something. Unless it becomes excessive kids are people too and they need their off time as well.
‘Maybe Even 4 hours. YES because of traffic 🙄’
My mom would find a way to leave immediately, I never really lied about how I was feeling, so if someone called she knew something was wrong.
I never lied either and my parents knew this but still anytime I was sick and needed to go home early which happened to me a lot I have health problems plus I was in a car accident that almost killed me so yeah but even with all of that I was abused every time I got sent home sick 😭
I only ever remember lying about being sick, bc I was being severely bullied when I was little. and basically abused by my teacher, bc she didn't like my skin colour (I was really pale white in an all dark/brown country) and after those few times I have never lied about being sick. but my parents always have a punishment whenever I had to miss school for reasons that the doctor gave, like I got really bad tonsillitis in 11th grade, and broke my ankle. yet they always say I exaggerate, and that I'm lazy. I'm on my last yr and keep getting health issues outta nowhere, as I've been pretty healthy as a child and suddenly the most important school yr I'm just sick 24/7, I just wish that parents believed more and stopped assuming that bc they lied in school to get out, that their kids do the same.
My step mom (who was a nurse) thought I was faking heat exhaustion picked me up took me back to her work (ER) and proceeded to have me chug cold water obv not a good idea I started shaking uncontrably she didn't think I faking after that 🙃
My mom told the nurse to give me the phone got it and was told “ Eliza your fine you ONLY have 5 hours of school left”
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i read this in a total judy garland voice 😂
My school day is 5 hours… A WHOLE SCHOOL DAY?
my mom did the same
@@tildatafvelin mines 7!
@@eliza_t7799 mine is 6 lol
One time I was waiting in sick bay for an hour and a half before my dad picked me up. It was for a good reason though, he was three suburbs over visiting his dad in the hospital and it was very rainy that day. I watched him on the find my friends app on my phone after the first twenty minutes passed.
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The most realistic thing I've seen all day
My mom always insists on talking to me to see how i feel from my perspective before deciding on whether or not i need to come home and im so grateful for that
My school wouldn't even send you to the nurse, let alone call, unless you were "bleeding, dying, or throwing up" this is a direct quote from my 6th grade math teacher as I threw up on my bff's sneakers 😂
You are really good. There is not a better statement, I can remember/recall any character that you play.
I had high fever and was white as a sheet when my school nurse intercepted me on my way home after my exam, she made me lie down and I was like, can't I just go home? But she insisted I at least lie down a while and only when I finally convinced her nobody was gonna come get me anyway, she let me go home. Still aced the exam though 😅
I remember since my dad lives 45 minutes away he told me if I ever go to the nurses office again he’d take all my devices away.
I suffered in silence with raging headaches and aching stomachs until my school year ended
I had a piece of shit “father”, too.
Haha, this is relatable. When I was in fourth grade I was sick but my mom sent me to school anyways (I always walked to school so she wasn't with me) as soon as I entered the building, not even my classroom yet I threw up. I then waited in the sick room for an hour before my brother came to get me.
Once I was puking at school and my parents where like an hour away doing something and my moms friend came and got me she's still her friend today and an awesome lady
Her face is so expressivley patronising 😂
As a teacher who's been sick several times this year and is going in to spring break with a virus for the love of all that's holy keep your kids home.
I was a school secretary and I was fascinated by the parents who stayed at work and asked us to give the kid a bucket.
Like every mum or dad I ever had to call! I totally understood of course....😂😂😂😂😂
"What color is she?"
I remember one time when I was sick and my mum was working so I literally walked myself home lmfao 🤣
(I only live like 5 minutes away so it’s not a big deal, everyone trusted me haha)
I did the same! My sister was home with a contagious viral illness. And I felt fine but had developed the rash. Took a bit of convincing to get the receptionists to let me walk home. Even though I was 15. But my dad was on nights and as I was infectious, but felt totally fine we all agreed it wasn't worth waking him for when my mum was already informed.
It’s such a good felling when ur names in a video and they actually spell it right for once 😂😂😂
If i wanted to go home i always said i threw up in the bathroom, they have to send you home in that instance
In my old primary school if u said you were sick you had to prove it so they basically had to look into the toilet to see if you’d actually been sick
@@tj8939 we had automatic flush toilets so they couldn't and when i was little i threw up a lot in the classrom trashcan so they had evidence that in the past at least i had thrown up really often
@@Sleepy_Sunshinea lot of kids used to fake being sick so they could go home so this is why they did it but idk did they not think it was weird
@@tj8939 like i said, i actually threw up a lot before i started faking it because i had motion sickness, but regardless of the reason they had to send you home
It’s like my childhood nurse called my adult boss.. this is literally what happens when I need a sick day 😂😂😂
Because it's always Mum. Trying calling Dad.
I’m so lucky to have a stay at home(also works at home) mom and a dad with I good job
Ultra realism: Maisie’s dad works mornings and Maisie’s mum told the school to call him whenever she’s ill because he can actually pick her up, and they never do
Your acting is so good.
When you’re a working mom and only get 14 vacation days out of 365 days a year and have a kid and I’m blessed because most mothers get no paid time leave at all.
Wait so you work on weekends and holidays and still only have 14 vacation days? Is that even legal?
For me it’s completely different because I have anxiety my parents want me to come home but the teachers don’t (now I’m homeschooled) 😂
Luckily my mom was able to get me and sometimes even my dad because near the end of sixth grade (also right before covid so end of school ig) I was almost always in the nurse’s for my back or my head hurting and we still don’t know why but I had my own bottle of advil in her office it was so bad. My German teacher marked me absent because I was in the nurses. Damn bro not my fault ik I’m pain but I digress.
This is the mum who in the morning before school said to you to go in then if you feel sick go to the nurse and I’ll come pick you up 😂
Brooo this is so accurate!! And then she'll make you wait like an hour too. My mom would ask if I'm bleeding and if not i had to suck it up and go back to class
My mum had to pick me up so frequently in primary school. I would be in the nurse’s office, throwing up, and then as soon as I left with my mum I would be magically cured.
im so glad my mom jsnt like this she just comes and takes me home 😭
My work wouldn't have let me go to pick her up.
I cant even imagine not being able to leave work to pick up my son Sorry to hear this
@@essie.2.023 they made a massive deal of me asking to take a personal leave day to step in to care for my disabled grandparents in an emergency, so I know they wouldn't have let me leave early to pick up a sick child. In all fairness, people with different managers probably would have been allowed, mine was just abysmal in general buy specifically didn't seem to like me.
Once I injured my arm at school and the bone went out of place. The office told me they called my mum but she couldn't pick me up because she was busy at work. A few years later I bring it up on a conversation and she told me they never called her but if she knew she would've came straight away to pick me up...
My mum was a nurse. She would quiz the school receptionist (we didn't have school nurses back in the day) about my symptoms and make an assessment on the need for me to come home.
It was tough! 😄
Fun fact: my school rang my mum and my mum asked those questions and they said "I think we should call safe guarding" my mum then said "I know my daughter I'm the mum if I say she's okay. She's okay" obviously my mum didn't mean to sound like a bad mum or anything she was busy in work
I ended up having to go to hospital cuz I had a concussion but obviously my mum didn't know that so she got me ice cream
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I feel so lucky to have a mom with a flexible job so she can drive a half hour to and from school and even a bad day mentally she'll get me home early (I don't over use it tho)
That was me ..if he ain't dying he stopping with u lmao 😅
One time I was sick 3 days in a row and got sent home each day and the office lady told me on the third day if i was sick again she wasnt gonna call my mom. the next day me and 2 other girls were sick. Safe to say she belived me and called my mom
It was kinda the opposite for me. Being an only child, my parents were/are overprotective. They'd come get me if I had a cold haha. But as the years went on obviously things changed and I just sucked it up.
Lol my mum worked from home when I was in school but I was always to scared to tell someone that I was sick so someone would find me crying in sickness and my mum would come get me 😂
Once I had very sharp pain in my stomach to the point I couldn’t walk or stand up straight so I called home and even though my mom’s office is 40 minutes away from my school, she came as fast as she could and took me to the emergency.
Lol I used to fake sick all the time, but when we went to the nurse we could dial the number so I’d dial the number to my best friends cell phone and she’d act like my mom and I’d get excused and vice versa
I get a call about once every two weeks. 🤣🤣 Kids are in daycare and I just never have a full paycheck anymore. 🤷♀️
My parents would intentionaly come in at like 7pm to pick me up so I'll learn to not call sick while they're working 🤡
F to pay respects. That sounds rough buddy.
Brings back memories of only being allowed to come home/stay home if I A) had a fever or B) had to throw up. Wasn't 'really sick' in other instances.
I so badly wanted to ask her if I 'wasn't sick' when I had laryngitis
My mom would be like she can walk home she's got her keys 😂😂😂
I used to work in an office where parents were literally penalised for having to leave work though to pick kids up from school if they got a call. The managers would say that they should have someone else like a grandparent that can pick them up or a childminder and would be really funny about letting them leave, demanding they work the time back etc. I know this video probably isn't hinting at that, but some people in the comments are so brutal 😂 not all parents can just drop work so quickly when there is a possibility that the child just wants to skip school and be picked up. (And before you say "just get another job that's better" it's not that easy is it)
One time I burnt myself at school and legit was crying the office called my mum and she was like put an ice pack on it she will be fine 💀
Give her a bucket ! 😂😂
My mother had to come get me one time because I was really really bad off at school one time. And she has a whole attitude about having to come get me. An hour had passed and when they called my mom again to see where she was, she said she was at work still.
I went to the nurses office just to sit down and have some water to ease a headache and she sent me home.
i usually get sent to a hospital in an ambulance- Either because ive had a very bad asthma attack or Dislocated my shoulder-
That's my mum :')
Poor Maisie! 😅
My mum used to say “is she being sick? Is she struggling to walk? Has she broken anything or can you see bone? Is she struggling to breathe? Is she unable to concentrate? Then she’s fine.”
She knows when I’m sick because I’ll be groggy and horrible in the morning. I’d get sent home half of the time as a mercy because kids were being horrible again.
My daughter was good at faking it so the secretary at school would ring me and say do you want to pick her up or are you a bit busy and need her to hold out? I said busy and she told my daughter mum is a bit busy right now head back to class and we will check you later! We had a good laugh and my child gave up eventually. That secretary is worth her weight in gold❤
"what colour is she" BAHAHAHAHAH💀💀
It is tricky sometimes. My oldest son has acid reflux and 3-4x a year I get a call about him vomiting. We ( the school nurse and I learned) to give him TUMS and send him back to class then I would put him on GERD diet and antiavid for 1 week. He’d get thru it.
Not every employer will let their employee leave easily. I understand the struggle. I do also understand that, you can just leave and get your child, it's more important than any job. But in this case, I guess, there'll repercussion... sadly.
She looks just like Emily Blunt😍
Anything BUT that situation I would be like this but I know how much it sucks to be throwing up stuck at school as a kid I would get my kid right away
If we're sick we take the bus home, well most of us do. They would probably pick us up from the bus station but not right from the school
I got sick at school in senior year. It was before first period had started. I’d driven myself to school, walked into the building at 7:45, and threw up in front of a professor. They wouldn’t let me drive myself home, so they called my parents. An hour went by without a word, and because my house was only a 15 minute drive (10 if you’re a bit aggressive), I should’ve heard something. Turns out, my parents hadn’t been really awake when the school called, and they fell back asleep. I told the nurse that they were out front, and then I drove myself home.
literally my dad leaving me to take the bus home after nearly passing out four hours earlier from a blood donation...except i went to an American public school. i was supposed to take the train back to the city after school, but the nurse insisted i at least take the school bus home. he just couldnt/wouldnt leave work.
I broke my arm one time and my mom was at work (a ER nurse) and she was like "is there blood? (no) is there brains? (no) I'll be there in an hour"
I’m really lucky my mum always comes to get me because she knows if I’ve managed to get the nurse to call home it must be really bad
On my sick days, mum would take me to work with her. At the hospital. She was a medical tribunal doctor and she would just put me under her desk with a pillow and I would sleep 🥲 This was back in the 90s though, not sure it would fly nowadays 😂
Lol, that's amazing! I had to walk a quarter mile every time I wanted to go to the nurse, even when everything was spinning.
My mom wouldn't even pick up the phone or if she did she would just say know lol
Yeah my mom would have said: all right then, let her go. The train station is only a 15 min walk away.
Because of covid if your sick my school makes you go home, and I get nauseous a lot I gone up to the office so many times the office ladies don't even need gk ask my name😃. Once my mum took like 2 hours when she said she'd be 40 minutes so I slept in the sick bay
Me biking home with a migraine like 3 times a year because my mum was a teacher so she couldn't leave work😂😭
Former teacher here. Sadly, many parents won’t pick up the phone to begin with.
My mom told the teacher to told me that if it gets worse I should get home by the 1 pm bus. It was 8.45 and I had 20 min walk from the bus stop in 39°C
Whenever my mum got the phone call she’d be like, ‘Ellie can walk, I’m not coming out of work’
Yup this and when no parent/carer or emergency contact for the child has no phone on them. I remember once we had a child with a really bad sickness bug and no one answered their phone for 2 hrs 😡😡 aventually grandad came but i could tell he wasnt happy and then the mum tried to drop the child off next day at school saying oh she only been a little bit sick on the way to school like no turn around and go back home 😅😅 poor kid and she was only 4 years old 😢
If that were me with a stomach bug AT SCHOOL, I would walk home at that point. Ain’t nothing worse (now I’ve never experienced it, but seen other kids that have) than puking in-front of the whole class. I have horrible fear of vomit, so uh yeah home it is. Thank goodness my grandmas always home to unlock the door😅
I used to be “sick” a lot. Mother always told me to walk home (5 min walk) if I just had stomachaches, headache, feeling nauseous and so on. She would check on me during her break, because I am 95% sure she knew I faked it way too many times.
But if my fever was up and I actually was sick, she would stay home or come home earlier. Call me every hour and so on.
If kindergarten calls me and tells me my son is sick, I tell them I’ll be there in an hour (I go to a school an hour away) and I’ll pick him up instantly. If I’m home I’ll be there in 10 minutes. Ain’t no way my child is being anywhere else than with me if he is sick. I know the importance of feeling loved and cared for when you’re literally feeling like crap. Making sure he got everything he needs.
My mother would have send the ambucopter to my school.
We had to send a child home because of behavioral reasons one time. The parent got there literally 5 hours later and all they said was "sorry it took so long" like...
This reminds me of the mum who knows their child is damn good at faking it, you'll take the day off like damn, you are ill, then an hour in its well some games would help, then jumping around like in the gymnastics lmao 🤣
i feel so bad for my parents bc i fell one day and sprained my elbow. my dad came and got me but it took us 4 hours at the er just to figure out it’s wasn’t broken 🙄
Don’t know how I got through 12 years of schooling without ever having to ask the school to ring my mum to pick me up because I was sick; but I did!
Basic child neglect.
Let your child stay in school sick. Neglectful to your kid and your letting other kids get sick.
You do know kids fake shit all the time to get out off school? Or they make a big deal of a small stuff?
Some parents have quite demanding jobs, and while of course they leave to pick them up, if it happens often enough…you get in these situations.
@@javierhernandez1555 sometimes kids fake things for a reason. I’ve had my grandma(mom was working) pick me up because I was upset over being picked on. I told my mom and grandma I didn’t feel the best.
There are reasons.
My mum always took about 3 hours to come get me... she worked in my school. In the medical department. She was "busy".
I once had the flu, and I was quite literally unable to breathe, I had terrible aches, and I had a fever. I tried school but in third hour it was the only time I could go to the nurse. And the nurse wasn’t even gonna call me down instead one of the best adults in the building had taken me to the nurse, and because of working schedules it took 2 1/2 hours for someone to pick me up it sucked. A couple weeks later I get really bad back pain, 30 minutes into school I get picked up because I was in so much pain. Turns out I had kidney stones (keep in mind, I’m 13)😅
I don’t like going to the nurse but just end up going there to often to count. (I a also blatantly avoid going until I can’t take it anymore)
My mom did the exact same thing. Except I wasn't sick I had cramps. Once all she did was bring a change clothes and went about the school day.
In my country we don't even have school nurses, if you're sick, you suck it up. When I was in my teens once, I walked myself across town with a fever and picked up my dad's birthday cake from the bakery on the way home. As a younger kid, though, I had to stay at the school until whatever ungodly hour I was due to be picked up, through whatever afterschool activities I was enrolled in. Once, they just gave me a trashcan to throw up into in the corner until it was time to be picked up.
I got pretty sick one time in 5th grade. I started to not feel well during a math test in the morning, so I went to the office and immediately threw up. The office called both my parents which couldn’t pick me up because they were at work. Stayed the rest of the day throwing up in the nurse’s office with a high fever and I couldn’t eat anything. Then I had to ride the bus home because they still couldn’t pick me up. Ended up throwing up on the bus too. I had to carry a bag with me the rest of the ride just in case I threw up again. I felt better 2 days later and my parents made me go to school so I wouldn’t miss. Made it through the day but when I got on the bus I ended up throwing up again.
Poor other kids and bus driver. It sucks when they have to be exposed because of situations like this. Its disgusting to be trapped near a vomiting person.
I’m both lucky and unlocks because I’ve always struggled with gas and stomach issues so 8/10 when I called home sick or my mom called the school saying that I was sick I genuinely felt like shit.