Thanks a lot Ms. D...

Two days ago I picked up Little T at school.  He comes out the door of his class room followed by his teacher.  Immediately I hear that his voice is rough and scratchy.  His teacher told me that he had some tea because of his voice and the fact that he's been coughing a lot.  Then she added in that if tomorrow he still feels bad maybe we should send him to Grandma's or something.  I didn't think to much of it, got in the car and then I started getting irritated. 

Who the fuck does she think she is?  Is she insinuating that we'd send the kid to school if he was sick?  And it's not that easy to just "send him to grandma's!"

Little T wasn't even actually sick.  He was coughing, yes; and had a sore-ish throat but aside from that he felt fine (according to him.)  Apparently Ms. D basically said the same thing to Little T and throughout the evening he started to feel worse, or so he said.  Little T is VERY psychosomatic when it comes to illnesses.  If someone suggests that he's getting sick, he convinces himself it's true (to the point of vomiting at times). 

A few weeks ago the school sent home a paper saying how it's cold and flu season and how everyone needs to focus on washing hands and what not.  The night it came home, Little T's homework was to read it over with his parents  so that everyone would be informed about how crappy these germs are.  It said something that if the Child was throwing up, had the poops or a fever over... 100 or something like that, then to please keep him/her out of school until 2 days after the symptoms went away.  Fine, will do.  Not a problem.  Little T didn't have any of the things on this list... so WHY was his fucking Teacher telling us to keep him home?!?!  It's not her call!!  I can understand if she was concerned that excessive coughing my disturb the other students but she should have called/emailed us and not told the kid anything.

This is why kids today are such pussies.  (That makes me sound old doesn't it?)

Anyway, because of all of this Big T took the day off to stay home with a pseudo sick kid yesterday.  Apparently the Kid was sicker than we thought, he didn't put up a fight when he was told he had to stay in bed all day, actually took a nap, stayed in bed for his mom's visit and had a bitch of a sore throat.  He's home today, too.  He feels fine.  No sore throat, no yucky sick feeling.  Big T is worried that his cough is too intense though.  Which I can't say I agree.  Big T is the boss though, so if he say's no school, than no school it is.  I feel a bit bad for the kid though.  I know he's completely bored out of his skull.  He's not complaining too much though.  And I'm sure he'll never fake being sick again.