Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?

[Anonymous]

I send my kids with chewable ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The one poster coming back with the “follow the rule” retorts…

Do you think the tech/nurse has enough time or room in her room for 1500 bottles of ibuprofen in a school that has 2500 kids? You are talking EASILY 150 more kids coming down a day than normal. They are already short staffed and have diabetics, allergies, immunocompromised students, along with all the mental and physical sicknesses. Not to mention the Covid policies. They also don’t have room for kids to lye down with cramps or headaches. And no chance they can call all of their parents for approval.

No one cares that kids carry Advil for cramps or headaches. No one has time otherwise, even more now that schools are overcrowded and understaffed. So it has been silently allowed for years and years to make it easier for everyone.

- RN (former MCPS nurse)

I’m the “troll.” I work in a high school and my point stands. It’s policy. If people don’t like it, change it. While it is policy, I am going to enforce it.

There are threads all over DCUM about chaos in MCPS schools. As long as we allow students (and parents) to pick and choose the rules they are going to follow, we can expect the chaos to continue.

You may “silently allow” something, but all you are doing is contributing to the current state of our schools. Classroom teachers have to put up with the mess caused by all the people picking and choosing rules.

I’m 100% correct on this from a policy standpoint. For a school system that’s this far out of control, we need more people to clean this mess up instead of fewer.

So black and white. But all the world is grey.
Schools don't have the capacity to mange, track and dispense aspiring and Tylenol for every snowflake.who has a headache. At the same time they don't want the liability of one kid having a reaction if there was just an open pill policy. So don't ask don't tell works for everyone. Except pp

[Anonymous]

When I was in HS in the 80s I had given myself a cricked neck getting into my jeans one morning and was in pain and couldn't look to my left. My Social Studies teacher said "here, have one of these" and popped open a little tin of pills. I have no idea what she gave me but I was EXTREMELY relaxed for the rest of the day and my neck felt fine. Now, in retrospect, I suspect it was Valium. And I grew up in a rich town, in New England.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The one poster coming back with the “follow the rule” retorts…

Do you think the tech/nurse has enough time or room in her room for 1500 bottles of ibuprofen in a school that has 2500 kids? You are talking EASILY 150 more kids coming down a day than normal. They are already short staffed and have diabetics, allergies, immunocompromised students, along with all the mental and physical sicknesses. Not to mention the Covid policies. They also don’t have room for kids to lye down with cramps or headaches. And no chance they can call all of their parents for approval.

No one cares that kids carry Advil for cramps or headaches. No one has time otherwise, even more now that schools are overcrowded and understaffed. So it has been silently allowed for years and years to make it easier for everyone.

- RN (former MCPS nurse)

I’m the “troll.” I work in a high school and my point stands. It’s policy. If people don’t like it, change it. While it is policy, I am going to enforce it.

There are threads all over DCUM about chaos in MCPS schools. As long as we allow students (and parents) to pick and choose the rules they are going to follow, we can expect the chaos to continue.

You may “silently allow” something, but all you are doing is contributing to the current state of our schools. Classroom teachers have to put up with the mess caused by all the people picking and choosing rules.

I’m 100% correct on this from a policy standpoint. For a school system that’s this far out of control, we need more people to clean this mess up instead of fewer.

So black and white. But all the world is grey.
Schools don't have the capacity to mange, track and dispense aspiring and Tylenol for every snowflake.who has a headache. At the same time they don't want the liability of one kid having a reaction if there was just an open pill policy. So don't ask don't tell works for everyone. Except pp

100% this. Everyone except the pearl clutching pp gets it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in HS in the 80s I had given myself a cricked neck getting into my jeans one morning and was in pain and couldn't look to my left. My Social Studies teacher said "here, have one of these" and popped open a little tin of pills. I have no idea what she gave me but I was EXTREMELY relaxed for the rest of the day and my neck felt fine. Now, in retrospect, I suspect it was Valium. And I grew up in a rich town, in New England.

How many posts did upu have to go through to find one where you could drop your wasp creds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in HS in the 80s I had given myself a cricked neck getting into my jeans one morning and was in pain and couldn't look to my left. My Social Studies teacher said "here, have one of these" and popped open a little tin of pills. I have no idea what she gave me but I was EXTREMELY relaxed for the rest of the day and my neck felt fine. Now, in retrospect, I suspect it was Valium. And I grew up in a rich town, in New England.

How many posts did upu have to go through to find one where you could drop your wasp creds?

Actually I dropped them specifically so no one assumed I lived either in a trailer park or otherwise hick place that had drug issues. It's called being preemptive as I'm aware there are weirdos like you lurking, ready to pounce on pretty much anything.

[Anonymous]

Could you imagine 500 Advil bottles/notes coming in first day?!? Nurse would be like HELL NO!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. MCPS will freak if found. Even OTC meds need to be prescribed by a dr., brought in labelled and given to the nurse.

They will freak out.

Source: Veteran teacher in MCPS and parent

Nonetheless, after trying it the permitted way and my children needlessly suffering, I had them secretly carry OTCs. None ever got caught, even my not crafty and overly honest Aspie who cried when I told her we were going to break this rule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could you imagine 500 Advil bottles/notes coming in first day?!? Nurse would be like HELL NO!!

Exactly!!! There would be hundreds of girls at the nurses office each week.

It’s a very known thing. Just take them in the bathroom or at lunch. No big deal.

[Anonymous]

This is all so absurd. I always took aleve to school since I was 10 due to horrific headaches. So much bullsh*t to jump through now.

Gen X = ultimate helicopter parents!!!

[Anonymous]

My kid take a few tablets with them in their backpack. Sometimes, they have muscle aches and pains and may need it. They know to be discreet and take it in a discreet area. They understand want to do.