I saw something on TV a week or two ago that got me to wondering. For those of you with kids, do your kids' schools have a full-time "school nurse"? Especially with budgetary cuts, it seems that many schools are without one, or at least share one nurse among many schools.

Many schools will "send children home" (or more accurately, call the parents to pick them up) if they are showing flu-like symptoms, but if you don't have a school nurse, who makes that determination? Just the teacher? That might seem natural at the elementary school level where teachers are more like surrogate parents, but seems more unusual at the junior and high school levels where kids are shuttling around to different teachers every hour.

I'm just curious how schools are handling this situation.