Government Schools + Government Health Care = Utopia http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...amed-sending-girls-hospital-article-1.1101567 Two young girls had to go to the hospital with severe sunburns after a Washington state school forbid the sisters from applying sunscreen during an outdoor field day. Jesse Michener said she was horrified when her two daughters, Violet, 11, and Zoe, 9, came home from school Tuesday sporting “hurts-to-look-at” burns after spending five hours outdoors with no protection, according to a post on the mom’s blog. Michener said she didn’t rub sunscreen on her kids because it was raining when they left for school. She argued that even if she did apply the much-needed block, the school wouldn’t have let the girls reapply to maintain protection due to a “deeply flawed” school policy. Children in all states except for California are not allowed to apply or bring the product to school, ABC News reports, partially because it is considered a medication. The Tacoma mom said that the burns were particularly infuriating because the teachers didn’t make an exception for her daughter Zoe, who they know has a form of albinism, which makes her particularly susceptible to the sun’s rays. Michener said that teachers, staff and parents made comments about her daughters’ burns but did nothing to help the girls. “One of my children remarked that their teacher used sunscreen in her presence and that it was 'just for her,” Michener wrote on her blog. “At the very least, a hat might have protected the girls, but, “alas, hats are not allowed at school, even on field day.’” Both girls had to stay home from school Wednesday, suffering from “headaches, chills and pains,” according to Michener. Tacoma Public School district spokeman Dan Voelpel said the district’s policy forbids teachers from applying sunblock to their students for liability reasons. Children cannot apply the block to themselves unless they have a doctor’s note as the district considers sunscreen an over-the-counter medication requiring prescription. “Because so many additives in lotions and sunscreens cause an allergic reaction in some children, we have to really monitor that,” Voelpel told ABC. Since the incident, Michener has begun trying to raise awareness about the school policy. The director of Elementary Education in Tacoma Public Schools called her Thursday to tell her about new law, passed June 7, that allows school districts to decide for themselves what is permissible and what is forbidden. “He stated that how the law will actually shake-out for districts is still to be seen (the devil is always in the details),” the mom wrote on her blog, “but that he hoped a policy revision could be achieved by October.” Michener told the Huffington Post that the girls are starting to heal, but the “long term effects are yet to be seen.” <iframe src='http://widget.newsinc.com/single.html?WID=2&VID=23646822&freewheel=69016&sitesection=nydailynews' height='320' width='425' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0'></iframe>
I was actually beginning to think we were rid of hightop. I bet hightop went to a public government school.
You know when it comes to health care related stuff, california actually has their **** together. In unrelated CALI health news, there is an initiative on the ballot to label GMO foods in CALI in November elections, progress:
Hightop, you forgot to include the completely unrelated photoshopped picture of the president in your post.
We must collectively avoid collectivism! Hightop, how do you feel about the fact that most private schools have historically embraced collectivism by requiring uniforms?
That article is misleading...students are not banned from bringing sunscreen to school, but rather teachers and staff are not allowed to apply it themselves. I can understand that....but maybe teachers should be allowed if they are given permission by a parent to lather up their kids. The policy is designed to protect teachers from litigation, because you don't want them to put sunscreen on a child using lotion with ingredients they may be allergic too. And sunscreen is water proof...you put it on and give it enough time to dry, it should stay on if they get a little wet. Or they could take an umbrella or wear a poncho.
The article states that students must have a doctor's note to apply sunscreen. (hopefully soon a government doctor).
Instead of govt. schools, we should have Dom schools. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aFWz0EDCOdI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
It's not a government thing; it's a liability thing. Which is the irony, because now they're going to get sued.
