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Has your childcare center’s policy of sending children home due to fevers caused you to question the accuracy of these temperature readings? #ChildcarePolicy #ParentConcerns #ChildHealth
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Assuming this is a licensed facility, I would [file a complaint with DHS](https://www.dhs.pa.gov/contact/Pages/Regional-Child-Development-Offices.aspx).
1% margin of error between your thermometer and theirs. You’ll have to ask them them to check the child’s temp in front of you.
Call DHS, but also start looking for another daycare. A center that will pull this will cut corners in other areas.
I would definitely ask what prompted them to check the child’s temperature during recess. Also, if they’re using a forehead thermometer, I’d point out those are particularly subject to artificially high readings after exercise, and that if the temperature lowers after coming inside and cooling off, it’s highly unlikely to be the result of illness.
Ask how they take the temperature, I believe my daughter’s daycare uses armpit. Then when you go to pick up the child take their temperature while still there.
It’s in our daycare agreement that their thermometer is the only one that matters and they have discretion with the sick policy.
But see if you can get on the waitlist elsewhere. Most likely your center is understaffed/underpaid more so than other centers or some other toxicity causing turnover. Center is legally mandated to maintain staffing ratios.
In almost 3 years, we’ve had our kid sent home once that was dubious. But our son is almost 3 and our new baby has the same infant teachers as our son did.