Have you had your rectal temperature taken in school.

I have never had my temperature taken in school.

But,I know my deskmate had her rectal temperature taken in school .She is seven that time.

I think seven is a magical age.I was at this age change to oral.

I vaguely remember one of the teachers in my nursery school taking my temp. rectally, when I was around 3, and sending me home. This would have been during the late 1950's. A school nurse wasn't on the staff, so the teachers took responsibility for everything. It was also an era of innocence. You would never find that today, especially in the U.S. They would be charged with a myriad of felonies, at the very least. Then the child's parents would file a lawsuit, and the child would be subjected to years of trauma intervention.( Basically a psychologist or social worker, telling the child how evil the teacher is). Wow...look at how far we've come. Very sad.

When I had fever during my pre school years, my mom kept me at home. This was during my toddler years like ages 3 and 4. My mom was the only person who took my rectal temperature.

Yes. Many years ago. The 1950's to be exact. Once in third grade and once in fifth grade be the school nurse. The second tome was far more embarrassing and exposing, because I had thrown up on myself.

When I was in pre-school. Was pretty embarrassing having other classmates see what was going on.

Nope never had my temperature taken rectally at school. Was sent home early and it was done while I laid on my bed on my belly with my pants and underwear down to my ankle

Only once, at my last high school physical, just as I turned 18. I allready posted about this humiliating, but also exciting experience as the doctor was a young sexy woman.

Nope. I remember getting it taken orally a couple of times, which I was accustomed to at the doctor, even when it was rectal at home.

Naturally the idea of getting it done at school has led to more than a few fantasies.

I did see a rectal thermometer in the nurse’s office at another school when we played against them in middle school basketball (it was a smaller private PreK-8 school). The thermometer sitting in a stand of Vaseline certainly caught my eye. (I went into the nurse’s office with a coach to get an ice pack for another player or something like that...anyway we were in and out). I long wondered whether it was the norm at that school or only for kids of a certain age.

I had it taken several times when I was in grades K through 7 and I was attending a private school that was run by the Diocese but attended by all who were fortunate enough to afford it. It got more embarrassing, obviously as I got older. Anytime you went to or were called to the "Enfermeria" (Infirmary) the other kids knew that at the very least THAT was gong to happen. It also didn't help that there really was no wall or privacy divider between where kids waited and where the Nurse worked, so it was not something one looked forward to, at all.

Never had my temperature taken rectally at school.

The only time this happened was at a very embarrassing entrance clinic. It was first grade which would have made me about 6. The clinic was presumably free, so if you couldn't or didn't want to afford taking your child to the pediatrician you could take them here. But thats a guess, at that age I knew very little except what was happening to me. They had the auditorium set up with all the exam stations on stage. There were partitions between, but they were open to the audience area, which is where the parents were all seated. You got undressed to your underwear and lined up. The very first station you went to had a rectal thermometer waiting for you. You were called in and placed over a nurses lap, undies were pulled down, and the thermometer was stuck in your bottom. I wasnt mortified, but definitely embarrassed. Not only could the "audience" all view this, but there were two nurses doing the temps so you were directly across from another child having his or her temp taken. This was the early '80s by the way, and children did not need privacy. I was on the side with my butt facing the audience, unfortunately, but it probably spared me from seeing everyone and feeling even worse. The child across from me finished in the middle of mine, and was stood up, had his thermometer read, entered on a chart that was handed to him, and the next child was called in. Of course, the other kids stared at you the whole time, as you did them. The worst was when they slid the thermometer out and stood you up in front of everyone.

But the most terrifying thing were the screams and cries coming from the end of the line. This is where you dropped your undies for the 3rd time (there was a testicle exam for boys), and got two terrifying shots in the hiney. Every kid screamed their head off, so it was quite unnerving knowing this was awaiting you. And, yes, I screamed too! My dad even commented on how bad those shots must have hurt.

Outside of that, it was always taken orally at school, even though it was taken rectally up to 12 by the doctors.

I was in the third or fourth grade when I saw the school nurse washing a glass rectal thermometer off in the drinking fountain just outside her office door. I stuck around like I was going to get a drink and I saw that it was one of the first grade girls laying on the bench in the nurse's office. This was in the late 70s.

Hell no. Rectally, only at home or at the pediatrician until up to maybe nine years old. Never had my temperature taken at any school I'd ever attended.

I never had my temperature taken anywhere except my home that I can remember.

I won't discount having it taken at the doctor's office when I was an infant.

Not rectal but oral I did a few times. Nowadays when the little chllians come into me and say they feel bad I either use a tympanic or temporal, whichever one is working. Yes, it's a school and money is tight. A lot of them will do it to try and get out of a test. But I have a desk in my office. Of course, I do have to contact their emergency contact which almost always ask me in a sneaky way if they are trying to get out of a test and do they have a temp. They usually end up staying at the school in my office. I'll bet we would have a lot fewer kids trying to fake being sick if we took it rectally. LOL

It would be definitely forbidden in our country.

I did have my temperature taken at boarding school i was done orally.

Yes once it wasn’t at school, but it was in kindergarten, I felt sick and the personal in charge wanted to take my temp and they checked in my file and it was ritten that at home my temp was taken in the rear. I don’t have to tell you The rest my underwear ware lowered and the thermometer inserted in the bathroom hover the nice lady knees.

I have vague memories of having my temp. taken rectally in nursery school, at around age 3, and my mom picking me up from school.

I have had it taken orally and farhead and under the arm even occasionally at school when little but never rectally. I would be very concerned with a school nurse taking a child’s temperature that way.

I did go to boarding school and they took temperature orally when I was sick

It never happened to me at school. Oh how I wanted and tried to make it happen! I even laid facedown on the nurse’s office sick bed with high hopes she would take advantage of my position, but it just never happened. It certainly wasn’t for the lack of trying on my part. Sadly it remained only a fantasy.

Nope. It was always oral. The nurses always had thermometers that were a handheld thing with a thin metal probe attached. They’d put a sterile cover on, stick it in your mouth, and then pop the cover off into the trash after.

We grew up in the 1970's and we never had a rectal temperature in school.. However, when my dad went to grammar school in the 1950's, he had his taken rectally by the school nurse more than once. She always called up his mom (my grandmother), told her the circumstances, said he should have it taken rectally, and asked how his temperature should be taken. Dad's mother always gave permission to take it rectally, without hesitation. After the call, dad said his pants and tighty whities were down for the nurse's thermometer withing 5 minutes. The really embarrassing part was the nurse sat on the examining couch and took him over her lap. One time, my red faced dad was still over the nurses knee, when his mom came to pick him up. Another time, his female teacher popped in to see how he was.

Going to elementary school in the 90s meant armpit or ear temp.

I don't recall any temperature at school. I think I went to the infirmary only twice, one of which was a bruise (no need for a temperature) and the other a tummy ache (I don't recall my temperature being checked but I may be wrong).

School was the only place where my temperature was taken orally. Always rectal at home and at the pediatrician’s office.

I can't recall a time that I got my rectal temperature took at school….just orally method most likely

Yes in 4th and 5th grade and then again in high school! Both of those nurses did rectal temperatures unless specified differently by the parent or guardian.

I had my temperature taken rectally, by the school nurse/secretary, a few times. It was in the mid 70s and I was in either 3rd or 4th grade.

I've posted about it in another thread here on Zity.