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The Certificate Madness That No Parent Should Put Up With Anymore!My daughter has a cold – nothing unusual, but the school demands a medical certificate after 3 days. What followed was endless waiting in a crowded waiting room, unnecessary stress for both of us, and completely overblown bureaucracy that isn’t even legal. Why parents shouldn’t put up with this madness any longer and how the school’s mistrust makes our daily lives harder – that’s what I write about in my angry report. 
It’s Monday morning, my daughter has caught a cold. No drama, any mother knows this. With a few home remedies and rest, it can be managed well. But send her to school? No, she’s simply not fit enough. So, as is proper, I call the school, report her absence, and take care of her. Two days go by without any problems, but on the third day, the secretary informs me that from now on a medical certificate is required. A certificate! For a simple cold! I’m speechless. As if I had nothing better to do than drag my sick daughter halfway across town just because someone at school decided so. But what choice do I have? The school insists. So off we go: to the pediatrician in Hohenmölsen. Of course, she’s on vacation. So we continue to the substitute doctor in Weißenfels. Once there, the next ordeal awaits us: five hours! Five miserable hours we had to endure in the waiting room, together with a bunch of other sick kids. Virus carriers on top of virus carriers! My daughter would have been better off staying in bed at home instead of being stuck in this virus hell. She was tired and just wanted to go home. I can’t blame her. But what else could I do? The school wants a certificate. After hours of waiting, we finally get seen. The doctor confirms what I already knew: it’s just a cold. But then the bombshell: the doctor explains that schools aren’t even allowed to simply demand a certificate! Only in cases of justified doubt may the school administration require such a thing. She even called the Ministry of Education to clarify! Then she also showed me in writing the circular decrees of the ministry that apply, which I was allowed and supposed to photograph to present to the school. The doctor said that school or house rules may not be stricter or interpreted more strictly than the ministry’s guidelines. She was obviously not happy either that schools demand such certificates and thereby unnecessarily burden doctors. 
I wonder: Why is something like this demanded at all if it isn’t even legal? Don’t the schools know what is lawful? Or do they know and still demand it unlawfully? Why must I expose myself and my daughter to this stress? The doctor also mentioned that a certificate costs 5 euros. Great, waste a whole day and then pay up. And the worst part: there was a long queue again at patient registration. If I had actually gotten this certificate, we would have had to wait another 20 minutes. That was just too much for me. I gave up. The final tally: 3 euros parking fee for 5 hours of useless waiting at the clinic. And then imagine if we didn’t have our own car and had to take the bus back and forth. How many hours of my life should I sacrifice for these senseless certificate demands, for this pointless bureaucracy? Schools just file away such certificates anyway. For them, filing takes only a few seconds; for me and my daughter, obtaining the certificate costs many exhausting and ultimately wasted hours. I’m fed up! From now on, I will no longer let the school boss me around. If my child is sick, then they better trust that I, as a mother, know that! And if the school absolutely wants a certificate, then they can pay for it themselves – and not burden us parents with time and money! Schools must stop constantly checking on parents as if we were incapable of judging the health of our own children. This system is an outrage, and I’m sure I’m not the only mother who thinks this way. Enough of this certificate madness! Author: AI-Translation - Bettina Böhme | 25.09.2024 |
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