Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Irresponsible parents/grandparents

The last thing I wanted to hear from mom is another case of HFMD today. That makes a record of 3 in her school and you know what? All 3 are from her class.?!?!?
And coincidently the "unknown No.2 boy" grandma had revealed to mom it was her grandson who got it. And she was not convinced that her youngest grandson had gotten it as he had no fever; no rashes except for ulcers. The doctor certified he had HFMD and immediately both him and his older brother were brought back home. Grandparents couldn't tolerate the two kids squabbling at home and no matter what- is like forcing the doctor to certify that the child do not have HFMD. So doctor certified, and they gladly brought the two kids to school so that they can have some peace at home.Irreponsible!
Then the third case came up. So did the third boy get it from outside or was it really from the second boy, who could still be carrying the virus?
* And question is why only them - the Nursery 2??
* Is this the susceptible age to get it?
* The school is big, children share the same table/chair when rotating to have their meals. So why other kids not getting it?
* Although the school cleans the place thoroughly everyday. How thorough is that? And does individual teacher clean up their own area as well? I suspect that the 3 kids all got it from outside source, and choose to think in that way. But deep down inside, I'm thinking if santising in the N2 area is not clean enough.

And some idiot parents still wants to send their kids to childcare centres just for their own convenience. There are cases of parents whose kids are sick and they still insist on bringing them to school. Then when school call, they don't pick them home. One mother of a girl in my girl's class is like this. School called to say that she had fever, refused to bring her home. And you know what?? She could have called her mother (child's grandma) to pick her up to bring to see docot. Grandma owns the chicken rice stall just next to her school. Spreading the virus to other innocent healthy children in school is one thing. Another thing is the effect on the poor girl, had fever for goodness knows how long. We've heard of children getting fits if the fever is too high and not cured in time. Are they going to destroy their child's life?

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