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School Sunscreen Ban Leaves Student Severely Sunburned
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| June 24, 2012
| Tanya Rivero
Posted on 06/26/2012 5:27:26 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet
The school district said it has to ban sunscreen because it's state law.
Yeah, it's banned by state law because it has 'chemicals' in it.
I'd chalk this one up to The Law of Untended Consequences. Morons in state legislatures passing some law to address one thing but affects 97 gazillion other things the morons never even thought about -- but are so obvious they should have.
I know, I've been there with a Bill written by my State Rep and was up for a vote in a couple days.
By the time her bill went through the whole 'committee negotiating process' it didn't even resemble her original Bill and intent and then SHE had to work her butt off to 'Kill Her Own Bill'. I got wind of this final version and called her office to 'express my objections'. She was out but she actually called me back (shock). She explained what happened and what she was now trying to do. Thankfully the Bill was killed and never voted on.
Oh and the Untended Consequence I immediately noticed was that if the Bill passed, it
would ban tens of thousands of people from ever being able to legally own or possess a firearm and if they already had 'one' they'd HAVE to surrender it (and this in IL where its already bad enough for us). When I mentioned this to her and explained how it would work by this Bill, she was dumbfounded and admitted,
"I didn't even think of that".
So I bet this Sun Screen ban is similar due to those 'evil chemicals' that one out of a million might be be allergic to.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:07:36 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Never mess with an old man. He won't fight you he'll just kill you.)
To: tacticalogic
To: Condor51
Hey, here’s a novel idea - let the parents decide what “chemicals” their children will be allowed to have/use.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:12:39 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Zakeet
Err, let me get this straight: Some people are allergic to suncreen, so it must be banned for everyone? What’s wrong with these people??
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:13:31 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: autumnraine
Idiot administrators. Cough drops = sunscreen = vitamin pills = aspirin = Oxycontin = cocaine in their demented minds. Can't you see the connections? Of course, condoms and abortion pills are distributed freely.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:16:20 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Zakeet
Some makeup brag about their SPF levels. Do the girls have to check those into the nurse's office and can only reapply it with a doctor's note?
"Mr. Smith, Mr. Smith, my nose is starting to look a little shiny. Can I have a hall pass to see the nurse?"
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:16:31 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: cartan
That’s the basis of almost all liberal policy -
somebody craps their pants and we all gotta wear diapers.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:16:58 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Vigilanteman
If they don’t have a blanket policy,
then their discretion is required.
With discretion comes responsibility for making a choice.
This is what they try to avoid.
They’re actually not “idiots”, they’re cowards.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:18:12 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Wyatt's Torch
“eleventy bajillion”
May I use that?
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:19:25 AM PDT
by
stanne
To: Hodar
The best day in my life was getting out of school.
The “real world” is so named because cause and effect are related. It’s an atmosphere that is conducive to mental health.
In school, students are insulated from the consequences of their actions, which are often related to meaningless busy-work, to begin with. When actions have no consequences, disorder and confusion reigns.
Just look at the kids exiting these places everyday. Teens don’t have to be this way. They sure as hell weren’t when they began work at age 14.
To: wizwor
Is there anything RIGHT with our schools? They employ many, many people, most of them unionized and rock-solid Democrat voters.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:22:38 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Spinach at every meal.)
To: Zakeet
Laws enacted by politicians drained of common sense and enforced by educators who are in dire need of education. Ignorance has become the new norm for those who consider themselves in charge. Time to dump all of them and start fresh.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:28:02 AM PDT
by
JayAr36
(Old enough to remember when this was a Free Country)
To: Zakeet
Laws enacted by politicians drained of common sense and enforced by educators who are in dire need of education. Ignorance has become the new norm for those who consider themselves in charge. Time to dump all of them and start fresh.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:29:12 AM PDT
by
JayAr36
(Old enough to remember when this was a Free Country)
To: Hodar
. . . and therein lies the problem. If these kids had been going to someplace where they would have the opportunity to learn, rather than cavort around in a water park, this entire affair would be moot.
. . . besides that sunburn doesn't look all that bad........../ducks
This is the legacy of allowing liberals free reign in our education system for 50 years virtually unchallenged. Now we pay the price for our folly.
Even moreso, this is the result of allowing lawyers to control every facet of the lawmaking process and then not reining in lawsuits. It's difficult to get too outraged over this sort of mindless, one-size-fits-all, behavior when the primary motivator is a school administration's fear of being sued.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:29:37 AM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Member of the BBB Club - Bye-Bye-Barry!!! President Barack "Down Low" Obama)
To: PapaBear3625
Produce the state law. Good point - HSLDA reports are full of cases of schools' either being ignorant of or deliberately ignoring state law.
However, in the case at hand, it appears it's true that the state will not allow government school students to apply sunscreen.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:32:36 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Spinach at every meal.)
To: stanne
I stole it too so sure! ;-)
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:34:38 AM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: Hodar
A minor point, but a field day is usually athletic/physical activity. A field trip is educational tours of businesses, etc. Different activities.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:35:02 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: Zakeet
Stupid is as stupid does.
Bureaucrats are not known for anything resembling common sense, intelligence or critical thinking. That’s why they are bureaucrats.
Its the only occupation that demands you be brain dead and stupid.
And BeeHO has increased the number of these mind numbed zombies by a thousand fold.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:39:53 AM PDT
by
ConradofMontferrat
(According to mudslimze, my handle is a Hate Crime. Hope they don't like it.)
To: Zakeet
Stupid is as stupid does.
“Duuhhh, da rools are da rools an I gotta follow da rools.”
Bureaucrats are not known for anything resembling common sense, intelligence or critical thinking. That’s why they are bureaucrats.
Its the only occupation that demands you be brain dead and stupid.
And BeeHO has increased the number of these mind numbed zombies by a thousand fold.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:41:52 AM PDT
by
ConradofMontferrat
(According to mudslimze, my handle is a Hate Crime. Hope they don't like it.)
To: MrB
I agree. Just think if they let any kids use sunscreen and one kid was allergic and had a bad reaction? No one wants to be responsible for something that could be bad or unhealthy.
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posted on
06/26/2012 6:42:16 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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