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| Tennessee school not accepting dr's notes for being sick | |
| By: Masked Man Date: July 25, 2025, 4:02 pm | |
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| Covid Caution - LP.8.1, NB.1.8.1, XFC, XEC @CovidCaution | |
| Tennessee school not accepting dr's notes for being sick. | |
| Channel22 News Springfield, MA | |
| by: Steph Whiteside | |
| Posted: Jul 25, 2025 / 06:59 PM EDT | |
| Updated: Jul 25, 2025 / 06:59 PM EDT | |
| LINK: | |
| https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/tennessee-school-wont-accept-doctors-notes-f… | |
| SUMMARY: | |
| NATIONAL | |
| LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOLS, Tennessee school won�t accept doctor�s | |
| notes for absences | |
| Masked Man Comment: | |
| woah!? Isn't this a major form of child abuse? This clearly | |
| endangers the sick child health and wellbeing and it endangers | |
| other children... I don't see how else to legally define abuse | |
| other than abuse equals endangering children's health. Legally | |
| and morally this outrageous! To willingly and knowingly spread | |
| suffering amongst other people!? I'm sorry but this is mental. | |
| I'd be afraid to go to prison for willingly and knowingly make | |
| children suffer and possibly get a disease like long covid. | |
| Sorry but that's crazy and punishable by law my book. | |
| There was a time When I was a kid and you had strep you had to | |
| have a doctor's note stating how many days you were on | |
| antibiotics, or you weren't allowed back into school because the | |
| school feared you were still contagious with strep and the | |
| teachers didn't want to get sick..now ya got long covid and | |
| measle outbreaks ... | |
| LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOLS, | |
| This is sick in the head making kids go school sick by | |
| threatening them with low attendance ..downright dumb and | |
| dangerous .. I'm sorry but you can't get any more dumb | |
| masochistic, sadistic and blatantly abusive to children than | |
| making a sick kid go to school putting that kind of pressure on | |
| a kid to attend to achieve those good grades... these kids will | |
| start committing suicide or maybe even inspiring school | |
| shootings.. sick desperate people became dangerous..anyway good | |
| luck with that policy that raises sickos ..that's worse than the | |
| military or something..anyway my opinions are my own but that's | |
| horror. That's just downright cruel. That's as cold as ice.. | |
| you'd be better off with an F and flunk out of highschool and | |
| living off the grid than trying to live with long covid. Thank | |
| God I'm not a kid anymore and in that school. | |
| Get good grades and risk covid or flunk out and be healthy? | |
| jeesh.. these are children with years ahead of them .. this is | |
| sick to treat children like that. That's just not a fair | |
| attitude to instill in our children that they must risk all | |
| health no matter what "to make the grade" Its just Immoral and | |
| state and federal laws should be in place to punish those that | |
| put the welfare of children's health at risk . | |
| I think I missed two weeks of school when I was a kid because I | |
| had severe asthma..I was rushed to the hospitals and I remember | |
| seeing nurses in masks and hospital lights as they rushed me | |
| from one room to another while I was being carted on bed .. I | |
| had to have an IV in my arm and was in a hospital tent for | |
| while so nobody would make me sick while I was in a weakened | |
| state and recovering...Hey LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOLS, you gonna | |
| punish and fail kids like me!? I almost died. | |
| Implement some online communications ..implement some programs | |
| like online learning to keep teachers and children safe when | |
| they get sick or when inevitable outbreaks occur.. get with the | |
| times use your brain..at one point China was super strict with | |
| kids and education(I could be wrong about this data and my | |
| apologies to China if I am.. but before internet existed I | |
| remember hearing such things when I was a child that China did | |
| have one of the highest suicide rates amongst children at one | |
| point in history because at one point in time they had tons of | |
| pressure to achieve intellectually as children.. now I think | |
| Russia might have surpassed china in suicide rates amongst | |
| youth.. all this data should be explored across various cultures | |
| and I just use China and Russia as examples.. I'm sure many | |
| countries have these problems ).and the result was sky high | |
| suicide rates... LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOLS, don't make these | |
| children so guilty they have psychotic breaks because grading | |
| and judging people while they are suffering from a physical | |
| illness is a sure way to achieve that. In the military and | |
| elsewhere, one means to torture someone is to deprive them of | |
| keep and make them do stuff anyway ... when someone is sick and | |
| deprived of good health and in a need of rest and nurturing it | |
| is torture to make them do something other than rest when they | |
| are sick and not of sound body and mind. | |
| It is not legal to get someone to sign a will or deed while they | |
| are not of sound body or sound mind so think very carefully | |
| about grading and judging a child's intellect when they might be | |
| physically ill. That might cause a psychosis and it might | |
| actually be illegal. Regardless its morally wrong if you ask me. | |
| Think about the function of education. I personally don't think | |
| a teacher's role is to grade or judge a child but rather instill | |
| in that child a love for learning that will enable that child a | |
| future of learning because the teacher's role is to teach the | |
| child to be able to teach itself for the rest of life. | |
| This lack of having good backup plans for when children and | |
| staff get sick is a failure on the schools part not the | |
| children.LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOLS, use your brains Where's your | |
| conscience? we are talking lawsuits.. this is criminal to | |
| deprive children of education and not provide alternative online | |
| opportunities to kids when they get sick and force them to go to | |
| school sick just for "good grades". | |
| I dunno man schools are gonna run into legal problems here | |
| besides doesn't that just sound insane : a little kid got a | |
| splitting headache maybe he feels sick throwing up or peeing his | |
| pants because he has to go the bathroom a lot because he has a | |
| little fever or something.. maybe he feels like his throats on | |
| fire and he's gotta do some math problems and get them right.. | |
| meanwhile other kids and staff get whatever the sick kid's got? | |
| .. that's just sick in the head.. pure torture! Do kids with | |
| covid actually pass classes? Now you gotta hold a ton of kids | |
| back a grade ... I'm telling you making kids do intellectual | |
| work while sick is big no-no. Get real.. this is abuse and | |
| torture little kids for the sake of school system's paycheck I | |
| guess . School systems better get real and get creative online | |
| with some better and more humane solutions and alternatives | |
| than forcing kids to go to school sick. It's not the kids that | |
| are failing here. Ive never heard of the practice of making | |
| people do things while they are ill ..sounds like a sick social | |
| experiment by some sick individuals. I would be completely | |
| worried about legal ramifications for that school and even fear | |
| moral things in my conscience. | |
| How about if a kid dies? What if the parents are like "you must | |
| attend school Johnny no matter how badly you feel!" and then the | |
| kid just dies because he just wants to please everybody...Do the | |
| dead have to attend to!? Just bring the corpse into the | |
| classroom to satisfy attendance..lol. seriously its bad enough a | |
| child is unwell and needs rest and nurturing outside the | |
| classroom when they are sick or suffering...That's bad enough.. | |
| we shouldnt make people who are sick and not of sound body and | |
| mind sign deeds and we shouldn't grade a sick child and | |
| everybody has the right to an education ..c'mon gimmie a break.. | |
| take advantage of new technology and advances such as computers | |
| and online learning to take up the slack for when society | |
| suffers outbreaks.. learn to adapt and modify the schoolsysytem | |
| for the sake of humanity and for children's grades. Stop trying | |
| to live in the old days when outbreaks weren't as prevalent... | |
| modify the system so that it makes sense to go to school and it | |
| makes sense to stay at home and do homeschooling when going | |
| outside the home is too dangerous. Give teachers and | |
| schoolchildren the option to stay at home and still be active | |
| educationally.. we can do it..stop being and playing the | |
| victim.. modify the rules and regulations to be realistic with | |
| the viruses and healthcare challenges we currently face... stop | |
| beating around the bush.. covid is still kicking and guess what | |
| might be worse than covid? What's worse than covid? I think Long | |
| covid would be the worst. Long term suffering and health | |
| repercussions sound scary to me... LONG COVID threatens and | |
| looms over us all.. I don't even like the idea of being sick | |
| much less a long time...now stop beating around the bush, accept | |
| the challenge and modify behavior and modify expectations and | |
| modify the rules to your game! ..weve got the technology! Get | |
| with the times people and reform school systems to reflect | |
| modern times for modern viruses that are prevalent nowadays. | |
| Inso far as education and how we treat youth and any age and | |
| individual for that matter, for things to be fair and safe | |
| equally for everybody I feel instead of giving or handing out | |
| orders, We have to give people alternatives, options, & | |
| incentives. | |
| These are my own opinions, judge me if you want, Give me an F or | |
| an A, I don't care, | |
| The Masked Man | |
| P.s. I am sure this is not the views of all staff and faculty at | |
| this school and I respectfully invite those who are sincere | |
| about education and children please share any productive | |
| solutions and views about education and our youth here in this | |
| forum. | |
| I had a hard time in school didn�t get good grades so I know how | |
| it feels yet I developed a love of learning and am also quite | |
| wealthy living and living life to the fullest!:) | |
| #Post#: 3960-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Tennessee school not accepting dr's notes for being sick | |
| By: Steve Date: July 26, 2025, 5:29 pm | |
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| I'm not understanding the logic of the school system with their | |
| rationale for this policy. | |
| Children are not adults and treating children as though they are | |
| "mini-adults" never tends to bode well for the society that | |
| attempts to do so. | |
| First and foremost, children are growing and this development | |
| (both physical and mental) needs more attention than that of an | |
| adult. The better that our health standards are in raising | |
| children to the point where they are capable of producing their | |
| own children, the less that we need to reproduce more in order | |
| to maintain population levels. Part of the reason why we used to | |
| have families of five or more people was because it was | |
| necessary from a mortality standpoint: The law of averages | |
| dictated that a certain percentage of children would die because | |
| of disease or infection... Society knew that they needed "spare | |
| children." However, with better health standards, we don't need | |
| 'spare children' anymore. | |
| Also, the idea that "adults work through illness" is outdated; I | |
| can remember a time when this was the case but, at least at my | |
| workplace, it has become obsolete and for good reason: Sick | |
| workers produce less product and endanger healthy workers in | |
| getting sick, thus lowering productivity further. With online | |
| and remote work, people can stay home and still be as productive | |
| as their condition allows them to be. If they have a | |
| communicable disease (such as Covid), preventing them from | |
| infecting others is a benefit and not a drawback. | |
| While I do not think that this is a policy aimed directly at | |
| Covid policy, one can not help but wonder if this policy is | |
| "Covid-adjacent" in that it is meant to be a reaction to prior | |
| Covid policy without addressing that issue directly for fear of | |
| political or social response, much the same way that "Voter ID" | |
| proposals cite "vote integrity" as a main reason but the | |
| traditional and cultural reasons are to suppress minority | |
| voting. | |
| In the end, it is unfortunate that this school district has | |
| decided on this policy. I do not think that this policy will | |
| help them, either in the short term or the long term. If I were | |
| raising a family, I would not be inclined to settle in an area | |
| where I do not feel that I have full control over my child's | |
| health. Since American conservatives are always championing | |
| "parental rights" (especially when it serves to advance a | |
| conservative agenda, much like they championed "states' rights" | |
| in the 1980s and 1990s) I don't see how this policy enhances | |
| those rights and, in fact, restricts them. | |
| As we have seen previously (and will likely see again), the | |
| Covid virus does not yield to rhetoric or political policies but | |
| to established scientific methods (such as regular vaccination | |
| and masking) for reducing its effects on society. | |
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