Posted on 06/07/2014 1:30:35 AM PDT by grundle
A San Antonio mother is furious because officials at her 10-year-old daughter’s elementary school banned sunscreen during a recent school field trip.
Guess what happened.
Of course, the poor kid came home crispily sunburned, reports local ABC affiliate KSAT.
To make matters worse, mad mom Christy Riggs said skin cancer runs in her family — and her father who had it passed away recently.
At issue is a district policy which prohibits kids from bringing sunscreen anywhere on school grounds. Riggs strongly disagrees with it.
North East Independent School District spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor defended the policy because, she said, the district considers sunscreen a medication.
“Typically, sunscreen is a toxic substance,” Chancellor told the Fox affiliate, “and we can’t allow toxic things in to be in our schools.”
The district spokeswoman argued that allowing kids to handle sunscreen is a very risky thing to do.
“They could possibly have an allergic reaction [or] they could ingest it. It’s really a dangerous situation,” Chancellor said.
“We have to look at the safety of all of our students and we can’t allow children to share sunscreen,” she added.
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I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing. The problem is not that kids can’t use sunscreen effectively. Whether they can or not is irrelevant. The school has a stupid rule. The mother was too dumb to protect her own kid in light of it. Whose fault is that?
School is at fault for making an issue of sunscreen. Parent is at fault for putting up with the Statist tyranny.
No, the mother's at fault for making her kid the victim. If she had wanted to complain about the stupid sunscreen rule, I'd be all for that. Even if she wanted to ignore the rule and send sunscreen along with her kid, I'd absolutely support her resistance. But not properly preparing her kid for a day without sunscreen was a lapse in good parenting. Look, it happens. Maybe she just forgot. But to start complaining about the stupid rule after she didn't do her job is a little too late. I suspect when and if she tries to sue, she'll be run out of the court. And the way things are today, she'll be lucky if the school doesn't sic CPS on her for child endangerment. Bottom line is, she knew the stupid rule - she should have dressed her kid better. And when precious came home with a sunburn, she should have used it as a teaching moment. "This is why you can't wear tank tops like the other girls, Honey. God gave you skin that without sunscreen needs to wear a t shirt."
What do you mean she is not at fault for putting up with tyranny? Every time any of us vote for bond issues for Police, education or city government, including sales tax and sales tax extensions we are voting for tyrants and tyranny large and small. We are abrogating our responsibilities to the group and transferring risk to others. Starve the beast and defund gubment at all levels. Put the damn sunguard in little johnnies lunch box and the State can kiss my freedom cherishing azz.
Um. Gubment iz skools, and skools iz gunbment. You don’t see the connection? Gubment funded. Gubment regulated (City, State, Fed). Public health Dpt is gubment, and has it’s fingers inside schools. Law Enforcement works hand in hand with the school nurses. Principles turn what used to be after school detention, or suspension into criminal acts. Gubment funded, Big Gubment sanctioned, Bigger Gubment regulated and trained employees. Or as I like to call them, Gubment re-education camps to learn that heather has two mommies and guns are bad and scary and cops are all the protection anybody could ever need. Yup. Gubment in all it’s big, impersonal, inflexible, DMV, Chicom insanity-glory.
Time to do away with gubmint schools.
The American people who elect the school boards who choose these “administrators” are all clueless.
Local school boards don’t control schools the way they used to.
This is stupid but did the mother know about the ban in advance? If she did and didn’t put a long sleeved shirt and hat on the child then she is stupid.
We all have very Irish skin.
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You must be referring to ‘Redhead’ Irish skin.
I belong to the ‘Ruddy’, dark haired Irish skin type.
Of course back in my yute one of the ‘insults’ to Irish were that we were just something ‘turned inside out’.
I don’t remember but I am sure we all went on shooting sprees and sued everyone in sight when it was mentioned.
The ‘inside out’ comment is under the
“If You Know, You Know” category.
Yeah, the parents betcha 50 bucks and a steak dinner are public school products. They relied on the school to take care of their little darling. Trusted them to keep her safe in spite of the no sun screen policy.
Me. I don’t believe in funding a powerful police force so I vote no on public safety funding issues. I carry my 2nd amendment convincer under my shirt.
I don’t believe in funding big powerful education establishments so I vote no on every public education funding issue. I home school my kids.
So opposing big gubment is not just empty rhetoric in my life. I live the life I vote for.
Old and tired: “We all have very Irish skin.”
George Carlin said you could pick out the Irish on the beach easily — they don’t tan; they fluoresce.
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