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[quote=Anonymous]I work in a children's hospital and we have a whole team of teachers on staff. Even our kids who are hooked up to machines do school work. Many kid sin hospital are on IVs and that doesn't limit them in any way from working with the teachers. The teachers are experienced and great at working around and accommodating whatever limitations the child has. Most of the kids look forward to school - it is a piece of normalcy in an otherwise not normal day. They work 1:1 with a teacher and often really look forward to it and hate to miss their school time. Teachers often don't know when a child is going to have a test or be unavailable due to a procedure or in too much pain / too sick to do school work as they aren't part of the medical team. It isn't uncommon for them to show up in a room with school work then realize that today won't be a good day to do work (probably what happened here). I have never seen a teacher force a child to do school when they were too sick to do so. Usually it is the kids still wanting to do school when teachers/ family/ med team are telling them no.

Keeping up with school work and testing also keeps students form being even farther behind when they get out of hospital. They are already dealing with enough without the added anxiety of being way behind in school.

I think this is one of those news stories where parents sensationalize something that happens everyday and that most people would not turn into a big deal.[/quote]

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