Posted on 10/20/2012 11:55:14 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A California boy has been ordered to transfer to another middle school because he carries the genetic mutations for cystic fibrosis – even though his doctors and parents maintain he does not have the incurable, non-infectious disease, the San Francisco Gate reported.
School officials said they believe 11-year-old Colman Chadam’s genetic makeup may put other students at risk and ordered him to move from Palo Alto’s Jordan Middle School to another district middle school three miles away after his parents disclosed his condition on a medical form in the beginning of the school year.
Colman has never had the lung problems associated with the disease, has never required treatment and tested negative on a sweat test, which is the definitive diagnostic test, his parents, Jamy and Jennifer Chadman, said Thursday.
The Chadmans said they only disclosed his condition out of an “overabundance of caution” and tried to convince the school officials that he does not have classic cystic fibrosis and therefore is not a risk.
While cystic fibrosis is not contagious, bacteria from the disease can be dangerous to others who have it as well, and non-siblings are advised to stay 3 to 6 feet away from each other, according to the Chronicle. A pair of siblings at Colman’s school do have the disease, which prompted school officials to force Colman to change schools seven weeks into the year.
Colman’s parents took the school district to court Friday to fight the decision. Colman will be home-schooled until it is determined whether he can stay at Jordan or must go to Terman Middle School.
“Honestly, if I felt Colman was a risk to others, I would move him," Jennifer Chadam said. "I don't want anyone to get sick."
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Beat me to it. GMTA.
...and muslims.
I’m guessing that the real problem they have with the boy is that he likes girls. That’s considered unnatural in that part of the State,
Amazing Aint it ? Stupid just keeps marching on !
Congratulations, you are now qualified to be a school board member in Calipornea.
Since he doesn’t actually have the disease, the parents should have kept their mouths shut.
“Are they actually too stupid to know you cannot ‘catch’ a GENETIC disease????”
Yes, and then some, especially if they’re union. But they think conservatives are drooling nincompoops...go figure/s;)
LOL. Good point.
Bodes ill for the future. Imagine if the Feds get their way and gets everyone’s gene sequence there could be all kinds of actions based on your genetics. Heck Holder already does - he descriminates against whites.
If the child had a chronic case of TB or bronchitis that never went away, I understand the risk. As a carrier who has somehow managed to have no symptoms (and some males only find out because it is responsible for a closed vasa deferentia and increases their propensity of getting colds), he doesn’t pose a health risk to others.
The irony is that the school is probably at high risk of measles, TB and Hepatitis from the children of illegal immigrants who go back to Mexico or family members who do and then bring the diseases back to the US.
You are correct, stupid is the wrong word
They are ignorant...
The bacteria that is issue only possibly effects other CF persons...people without CF have no issue
Sort of like the peanut butter Nazi in schools who ban all peanuts from school even homemade lunches because one poor kid has a peanut allergy and his mother wants the whole school to conform to her kids issue..
What about all the illegal immigrants w/o vaccinations?
While a boy with aids is allowed to stay. Lord knows those genes are contagious.......Quote from an honor student and a happily concurring professor. This observation was sprinkled of coarse with some affirmative action diversity and political correctness. hallelujah, pass the doobie
ping
Stupidity reigns supreme in the Dept of Education.
It is well past time to abolish it and get back to actually educating the kids with local parental control of the schools.
Stupidity reigns supreme in the Dept of Education.
It is well past time to abolish it and get back to actually educating the kids with local parental control of the schools.
“Honestly, if I felt Colman was a risk to others, I would move him," Jennifer Chadam said. "I don't want anyone to get sick."How in the world does transferring him to a new school three miles away mitigate the risk to other students? While the students in his former school are now "safe", the kids in his new school aren't.
The article did not say that the boy only had a single copy of the CFTR gene.
and WHO DOES NOT HAVE AND WILL NEVER GET cystic fibrosis
If it was known genetically that he could never get the disease, why did doctors perform a "sweat test"?
have that a kid who doesn't have his own copy of a CF gene can catch?
The article said that there were already two kids with CF at the school.
False. If you read the details, you see that the exact opposite is the case.
While it is true that cystic fibrosis sufferers can pass dangerous infections between one another and are therefore advised to avoid physical contact with each other, this kid does not have the disease.
Therefore, this case is yet another example of, those who can do, those who can't do teach, and those who can't teach administrate.
This principal needs a transfer to the Dreaded Private Sector.
What am I missing here? CF is inherited by a recessive gene for CF. It requires both parents to pass this recessive gene to a child for the disease to manifest itself.
What is this “bactieria related to CF all about?” I am a retired Medical Lab Technologist, and I have never heard of any bacteria associated with CF, much less with a person who is a carrier of this recessive gene.
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