Fever tends to get higher in the afternoon / evening. I only have aftercare now, but my kids go to school / preschool until 1:30. It's happened more than once that I dropped off a kid who was acting fine and picked up a kid with fever. No medicine given, I didn't know the child was sick.

In answer, because I have after care this year I rarely send kids home sick. It happened once last year. When I start doing full time daycare next year I expect I'll send home kids more based on friends of mine who send out to daycare and always seem to be picking up kids who seemed fine in the morning, but are sick by 1.

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