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Send your child to school - even with tonsillitis! Parents outraged by new guide that tells them pupils should take 'zero days off' if they get range of conditions
dular fever should carry on going to school, a new health guide tells parents.The booklet says pupils should take ‘zero days off’ if they get a range of conditions during term time, which also include head lice, conjunctivitis and threadworm.
And children should take just five days off for chicken pox, whooping cough and mumps, and four days off for measles.Parents were outraged by the guide.
'Zero days off': Children with tonsillitis should carry on going to school, a health guide tells parents. (File image)
Father-of-two Gareth Whittle, from Cardiff, said: ‘I thought it was a joke. I think as parents we are responsible enough to know when and for how long we should keep our children away from school.’
Another parent said: ‘There are no hard and fast rules when a child falls ill – but each child is different and you get worse cases of mumps or chicken pox.
‘I don’t know who writes this rubbish, have they got children themselves?’
Pauline Jarman, a governor at Mountain Ash Comprehensive School in South Wales, said: ‘When I had glandular fever I was too run down to function.
‘I am inclined to trust the judgment of the parent or guardian.’
A spokesman for Rhondda Cynon Taf Council, one of the five local authorities in Wales to hand out the booklet, said the advice was taken from the Health Protection Agency in conjunction with the Royal College of Paediatrics.
The guide also urges parents to seek advice from NHS Direct or their GP before removing children from school.
Rules: Parents were told that children should not take any days off for head lice or conjunctivitis. (File image)
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