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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:
HTML https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/tennessee-school-wont-accept-doctors-notes-for-absences/
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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