Tuesday, April 22, 2008

School suspended(voluntary)

Renee is recovering but her temperature this morning was still at 37.5degrees which will not pass the precautionary gate check, thus she will be staying at home again. This is the 10th day of her being absent from school and that effectively means a wastage of S$250 altogether.
What's more important is that I'm not sure if she'll catch any more bugs if she resumes school the next few days(the current bug that's being spread around, according to many people including the docs, seems to be a strong one, even the adults are affected).

I phoned the school and spoke with the principal on this matter. She was very kind and understanding and even agreed that I could try letting her stay at home for the time being as their young bodies are usually still weak when they've just recovered from a sickness and it certainly doesn't help if the bug is still around. It is a good idea to wait a while. I've been told that this 'cycle' might re-suffice when Renee resumes school even after the break and when I shared this with her, she said that it's not really true as she's come across cases whereby the parents stopped/pulled the child out for a while and it did seem to work better as the child is stronger when he/she returns. With this remark, I'm further encouraged to go with the suspension.
She asked when we would like to resume and I thought, perhaps the next term(after the June sch holidays) might be a good idea. So, since she's also agreeable to that, she will get their accounts dept to work out the pro-rata fees and revert to me. I wonder if they will back-date till these last '5 days' Renee was absent from school?... I doubt but if they do, it'll be a bonus :)

Renee's temperature is now going down to almost normal and whilst waiting for them to revert to me on the figure, I'll still have to discuss with daddy further on whether we should stop her temporarily or continue from May onwards, since there is going to be a one mth break from school in June.

My conversation with Renee regarding this matter :

Mommy : "Renee, can we stop school?"
Renee : "ok..."
Mommy : "do u know why we have to stop you from school?"
Renee : "because I'm not feeling well"
Mommy : "we go back to school after the school holidays, ok?"
Renee : (not knowing that it's gonna be a while before that happens) "ok"
Mommy : "are you really ok with not going to school?"
Renee : *looking sad*
Mommy : "we'll go back to Mrs Jacob's class after the school holidays ok?"
Renee : *nodding her head, still looking sad*
Mommy : "but what will you do at home then?"
Renee : "I will play, play and play"
Mommy : *rolling eyes*
Mommy : "Oh, papa has bought mommy's car, how? what if papa scolds?"
Renee : *cheeky grin* "drive to gai gai!"
Mommy : .........

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