School Policies Stricten Sick Policies
Sep 26th, 2007 by Alex
MICHIGAN- “Keeping our students safe is our number one priority,” Jeff Kitna, director of education, justified the harsh new rules for sick students.
As the impending cold, harsh winter weather approaches, teachers and schools are setting up new rules that are harsher than ever to keep their students safe. School districts have adopted a new isolation protocol that consists of multiple parts. If a student is sick with either a cold or fever, the student must be quarantined into another classroom with other sick students.
“These rules are just too harsh,” Maria Pova, a mom of a district student, spoke out. “Everybody gets sick once awhile and to have the students go through isolation is dreadful. The worst part is that they can’t stay home either or they will count it as skipping school.”
The rules get even harsher. If a student contracted a flu or whooping cough the student must learn outside the school. The protocol itself is well over 10 pages long with almost every disease included. The last disease listed is when a child contracts Respiratory syncytial virus where the whole school must be evacuated.
Too harsh? Not to the school board. “The reason we’re falling behind other countries is that we’re getting sick all the time. Over half of the students miss at least 2 days a year because of sickness,” Jane May, a school board executive, said.
Although this may be true, many say that school boards are using the winter sicknesses as a scapegoat for their falling grades instead of their curriculum.
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