Girl, 15, sues school nurse over prenancy test

KXAS TV ^ | June 17, 2005

[Clara Lou]

The nurse felt free to act as she did because she is employed by the public school system.
Then she was experiencing delusions of grandeur, because she overstepped her authority. I live in Texas, and, to my knowledge, San Marcos ISD is not in the habit of administering pregnancy tests to girls. You know, this nurse wouldn't be the first employee in United States history to stick her nose where it doesn't belong and to break the law in doing so.

[pabianice]

Hey! It Takes a Village!

[norraad]

Yep, your right, their azz is legally covered.

Case dismissed.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep, isn't that the truth!

Let me give you an example of something I've noticed a number of times now.

1. I walk into the room where my niece was going to graduate the sixth grade. On the wall was a painting, created by the students. It was about two feet by eight. In the painting were various important historical figures. One person on a horse fit conveniently within the two foot heighth. Another person was shown standing, also fitting within the heighth. The third person barely fit eyebrow to chin within the heighth. The people were George Washington, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, respectively. I was the only member of my family that noticed, and they thought I was a little weird because I was miffed at the short shrift George Washington received compared to MLK.

2. With a number of nephews and nieces, I attend a fair amount of graduations. The last I attended had a black speaker for the commencement. The guy seemed like a nice individual. Still, in his presentation he rattled off a number of historical figures the kids should emulate themselves after. Absent the list were any of our forefathers. Absent the list were any white U.S. citizens from the present or from history. Mentioned were, Martin Luther King, George Washington Carver, Mia Angleu (sp?), Nelson Madella... and others. My wife did say he mentioned one white guy, Michaelangelo.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the people who are teaching our children, haven't a single clue.

There's more to teaching than simple math and English, even these subjects receiving poor marks. But when it comes to who people these kids should be looking up to and who brought this nation into being, our and their history is being stolen from them. Counterfeiters are hard at work.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Isn't the "age of consent" 17 in Texas?

The girl is 15.

Wouldn't that be statutory rape?

The first thing the nurse did was order a pregnancy test?

WTF?

[Clara Lou]

Well, the Texas Family Code [which has to do with Child Protective Services] is instituted by the State of Texas, not school districts. The nurse still overstepped the bounds because she pressured the girl. The girl and her parents will prevail unless there are some facts omitted from the story.

[Mo1]

Why did the "boy" initiate this fiasco? What might he expect to gain? What does anyone think he could expect to gain?

Whatever the reasons, this is a family matter

Not a school matter

[G Larry]

My VOLUME and proximity would be so overwhelming to ALL responsible, they'd think they'd been hit w a baseball bat!

[alancarp]

No problem: yes, while they may be legally covered by some obscure legal thing that the principal happened to have handly (I find that extremely interesting, too), but if I'm the Dad -- yes, I'm STILL TICKED OFF, and I'm goin' to court.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

There has to be more to this story.

 

For instance why in the world would the nurse give a tinkers damn if this girl was pregnant? After denying the allegation why wouldn't the nurse believe her?

 

Logic would suggest the girl asked for the test in order to prove the boy was nothing more than a blow hard and prove her innocence in the matter. If she asked for the test, her father might suspect it is an admission she is fooling around. Perhaps she has changed her story because Daddy might suspect she is sexually active, in which case she would rather not admit it to him.

 

After raising a daughter, if she requested the test, as a father I know that thought would certainly cross my mind. My daughter became sexually active in her last year of HS but never admitted to me until years later.

 

As they say "Somethin is rotten in Denmark" here.

[DoughtyOne]

As a matter of fact, this isn't about me Clara Lou. It's not about "my" bad day. It's about "this female student's" bad day. You do understand that right?

This is about a person who has been given a position of authority over children in the local community school. When you figure out who gave her that authority, and whether she's a part of the staff or the student body, perhaps it will dawn on you what the problem is.

Hint Clara Lou, it isn't the students or myself. Why would you be offended by what I wrote. Isn't it clear to you that there is an administrative problem in that school?

Once again it's a problem that permeates the education system from the top to the bottom. It is diseased and in need of some serious surgery!

"WE KNOW WHAT's BEST FOR THE KIDS!"

No GD it! Parents do.

[FreePaul]

About forty years ago a school nurse sent us a note that she had tested our daughter's eyes and found major problems. The nurse wouldn't tell us what she envisioned as the problem. We took our daughter to an opthamologist who found nothing wrong. He wrote a very strong letter to the school in which he told them to leave diagnosis to those who knew what they were doing.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Help me with this one.

"The lawsuit claims that nurse Dyanna Eastwood called the girl to her office and told her that a student at another school claimed he impregnated her."

The girl is 15 years old.

Section 22.011 (a) (2) of the Texas Penal Code provides that a person who has sexual relations with a child younger than 17 years of age is guilty of Sexual Assault. Under this section of the Penal Code, "sexual relations" may include conventional sexual intercourse, oral sex, anal sex and/or oral-anal sex.


When the nurse was told that a student at another school claimed he impregnated (the 15 year old girl). Why did the nurse not call the police?

[ElkGroveDan]

Just another day in public school. The tuition at Christian school is why why we are always financially on the edge, but stories like this remind me how every penny of it is well spent.

As my friends from all over the country say (over and over again) "Yeah that stuff is awful, but it doesn't happen in OUR school district.""

[Bear_Slayer]

Having a bad day? This idiot nurse isn't one of "the people who run this nation's education system." The nurse is the problem, not the school district or its policies, as far as the article indicates.

Who hired her? or did she just walk of the street and set up practice in the school office.

This nurse is indicative of the chronic problems we are having in the public school system.

[Clara Lou]

I'm not quite sure what you mean about the principal. I can tell you this, though: Principles will avoid like the plague situations like this. Principles pray to avoid lawsuits. They've got parents, NCLB, budgets, school boards, and superintendents to juggle. My guess is that what we have here is a nurse who either a)is a self-important crusader who finally went too far, b)a substitute nurse [substitue nurses are needed several times in a school year just like substitute teachers], c)an over-eager newbie, or d)you get the idea from a, b, and c.

Also, the principal doesn't have the same control over school nurses as he might have over his teachers. Someone else in the school district oversees the school nurses.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

See my post #33.

[Bear_Slayer]

There's more to teaching than simple math and English

Yes - propaganda and indoctrination

[TASMANIANRED]

How about retaliation to damage her reputation because she wouldn't have sex with him.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

When the nurse was told that a student at another school claimed he impregnated (the 15 year old girl). Why did the nurse not call the police?

 

And if the boy is also 15 then do the cops charge both the boy and the girl with rape?

 

Is it a crime if the "perp" is also under 15 in your opinion. Or do you think the girl is incapable of initiating the sexual advances?