More Idiots Running the Public Schools

[nissangirl74]

It was raining when her children left for school on Tuesday, so Jesse Michener did not slather them in sunscreen, even though she knew they'd be outdoors for field day later that afternoon. But the sun came out around noon and, when the kids came home, two of them were so severely sunburned that they had to go to the hospital....."My children indicated that several adults commented on their burns at school, including staff and other parents," Michener wrote on her blog. "One of my children remarked that their teacher used sunscreen in her presence and that it was 'just for her.' So, is this an issue of passive, inactive supervision? Where is the collective awareness for student safety?"

Tacoma Public School district spokesman Dan Voelpel told Yahoo! Shine that the school district's sunscreen policy -- which forbids teachers from applying sunscreen to students, and only allows students to apply it to their own bodies if they have a doctor's note authorizing it -- is based on a statewide law.

"Our policy follows the state law which allows district to establish the rules for how medications, both over-the-counter and prescription medication, is handled in the school," he said. "Our policy is that any of that medication requires a doctor's order for kids to take it at school. This is really to protect other students who could be exposed to various medications that they could be allergic to." The federal Food and Drug Administration considers sunscreen to be an over-the-counter medication.

They have a SUNSCREEN POLICY?????



http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/kids-c ... 00498.html

[frapjap]

Seems silly, but my guess it probably has something to do with preventing child molestation and the "no touching zone." Yay nanny states.

[MinisterofDOOM]

They have a SUNSCREEN POLICY?????

If we don't tell people how to do everything, how will they know how to do anything?

Mindless drones leading mindless drones.

"Give as few orders as possible. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject."
-Duke Leto Atreides

[Jesda]

ZERO TOLERANCE ZERO TOLERANCE ZERO TOLERANCE ZERO TOLERANCE ZERO TOLERANCE ZERO TOLERANCE ZERO TOLERANCE ZERO TOLERANCE ZERO TOLERANCE



Now dont you feel safer?

[themadscientist]

This is racist. Me and my pasty-white brothers are being discriminated against.

If I have a kid I will send them to public school even if I can afford a private one. They need to grow up amongst the pathetic automatons they will subjugate as adults. They will get daily examples of awarded authority's incompetence an why relegating your freedoms to such people can only bring problems. At night we will discuss the dumb s*** their teachers and fellow students did and how in real life you don't get a trophy for showing up and nobody gives a s*** about your feelings. Then we will learn history and other actually important things.

[Looneybomber]

Kids probably went to the hospital, doc said they're fine, and to put aloe on. Unnecessary trip to the hospital, but overreacting parents enable desperate reporters to write something.

In more important news, Google stock dropped again, 12.3pts, for a loss of 2.13%.

Then we will learn history and other actually important things.

My friend has a double major, History and Theater. He's now going back to school to get a real degree, one he can use to make money. So don't neglect the other important subjects too much.

[themadscientist]

Not history as a degree, history as in recognize the dumb s*** that was done before when someone puts a fresh coat of paint on it and tries to sell it as a new idea.

[sbird1]

Shouldn't the kids have enough sense to stay out of the sun once they start feeling really burned, and I'd imagine sick? Why is this anyone's "fault". I used to have field days and stuff. Everyone did. Not everyone wore sunscreen, but there was never an issue. Can't we just boil this down to dumb kids?

[audtatious]

My daughter's high school won't give her Advil. I can buy the school a bottle of Advil for her and have them store it but they cannot give it out unless I give them a doctors note stating it's ok and how much. Even then I have to sign something about liability.

Guess she is safer

[nissangirl74]

Shouldn't the kids have enough sense to stay out of the sun once they start feeling really burned, and I'd imagine sick? Why is this anyone's "fault". I used to have field days and stuff. Everyone did. Not everyone wore sunscreen, but there was never an issue. Can't we just boil this down to dumb kids?

There was never any shade at any of the Field Days I attended, just an open ball field. You can't boil it down to dumb kids because the teacher ignored a blatant problem staring her dead in the face. That woman should be reprimanded for not protecting those students.

[Dattebayo]

Hell yeah the kids were being dumb. Just to prove my point: did it happen to all the kids out that day?

Nope! Just 2 kids that happen to belong to some whiny alarmist douchebags who put it to the media. Their kids already know that if you spend too much time in the sun, you get sunburnt. It's not like they fell off the stupid wagon and went straight into school. (Or did they...)
All you can do is install good sense in your kid, don't rely on teachers to do something or not. Besides, you can't really reprimand someone who's duty it already is to look after way too many kids at the same time. Too much nannying in both directions isn't going to help anything.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

How is it a problem of child molestation to provide sunscreen to kids? You don't have to slather it on yourself...