Posted on 05/23/2012 2:21:14 AM PDT by Daffynition
Volusia County School officials stand by a Deltona High School nurse's decision to refuse a student his inhaler during an asthma attack, citing a lack of a parent's signature on a medical release form.
"It's like something out of a horror film. The person just sits there and watches you die," said Michael Rudi, 17. "She sat there, looked at me and she did nothing."
He said the school dean found his inhaler during a search of his locker last Friday. The inhaler was still in its original packaging -- complete with his name and directions for its use; however, the school took it away because his mother hadn't signed the proper form for him to have it.
(Excerpt) Read more at clickorlando.com ...
...no parent signature needed.
This case has to be called *The Lazy Stupids Times Three*.
Surely, the parent was notified the inhaler was confiscated.
A HS student should know by now, what the rules are [stupid rules or not] and hounded the parent to get the form processed; by this age, he would know how serious his attacks could be, unless, of course, he was SpEd.
The school nurse should have been all over the parent for the form; she had to know the student’s medical history, which was probably in the file cabinet.
This idiot needs to decorate a lamppost.
Of course, you’re right. They are absolutely the same thing.
The time has long passed for all these officious boobs to be rounded up and turned out on their collective and collectivist asses.
>>Stupid parents....couldn’t sign the dang form? That is one thing that my wife (especially) does is go through all backpacks to ensure all paperwork is looked at and all forms signed as required. Parents are so damn lazy.<<
What guarantee is there that a parent DID NOT sign the form and that it was misplaced. A school makes mistakes too.
Or you can homeschool.
Or register for Early College.
Either way, kid carries his own inhaler. No Nazi locker searches.
Cool.
My son's school is very clear to parents that if you child needs any med, you have to send them in with a note. It's not that hard and the school is very up front and clear about the requirements. It's the state law, not the school's policy. I'm assuming that that is probably the same case here. The parents really should have known.
My son has migraines and can't take regular tylenol, so we make sure that we send in liquid tylenol for him. Just put the bottle in a plastic baggie with a note. Not difficult.
My son's school is very clear to parents that if you child needs any med, you have to send them in with a note. It's not that hard and the school is very up front and clear about the requirements. It's the state law, not the school's policy. I'm assuming that that is probably the same case here. The parents really should have known.
My son has migraines and can't take regular tylenol, so we make sure that we send in liquid tylenol for him. Just put the bottle in a plastic baggie with a note. Not difficult.
Too bad they probably don't let kid have cellphones, or the kid could have called 911
That's what the article says, and also in the video:
"As soon as we opened up the door, we saw my son collapsing against the wall on the floor of the nurse's office while she was standing in the window of the locked door looking down at my son, who was in full-blown asthma attack," Rudi said.It does sound like depraved indifference. It's a bureaucratic response: she CANNOT be fired for following policy to the letter, even if he died. She COULD be fired if she deviated from policy. Therefore, holding that her job was of supreme importance, she followed policy. I've seen that mindset in many places.Michael Rudi said when he started to pass out from his attack, the nurse locked the door.
I would fire her, the school administrator, AND the guy who wrote the policy.
Sorry for the duplicate post. Went to post and wanted to add one more thing. Thought I’d canceled in time.
Oops.
Or you could live in a country that has no rules, or inhalers like ...maybe...Zimbabwe or Somalia.
At one point the boy had the inhaler in his possesion. Isn’t the doctor’s name on that prescription? Isn’t that a medical permission?
Should have wrapped the inhaler in a condum, they would have been A-OK with it then.
Yep - deny aspirin for no parental consent and dole out morning-after pills without parental knowledge/consent.
Please don’t get me started on Family court. I have been a bystander at several of those ‘hearings’. I even know a man who committed suicide in the parking lot after the court got done ruining his life. When the judge was told he didn’t even bat an eye and just went onto the next case.
It won’t be me, but I know enough of human behavior to see that if there is a SHTF scenario bad enough that many of the Judges and Lawyers will be visited by their former cases and the visit won’t be a good one.
If i was that nurse I would risk ‘arrest’ or ‘firing’ before I would let a child suffer and maybe die. I cannot comprehend this.
It is here folks.
>>Or you could live in a country that has no rules, or inhalers like ...maybe...Zimbabwe or Somalia.<<
Or you could transport back in time to 1970s America when people knew that kids with Asthma needed inhalers, whether a parent signed a consent form or not.
There’s rules, then there are stupid rules.
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