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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a student who was a diabetic and refused to take his medication.

I've taken candies and cookies out of his hand and thrown them out after watching him go into diabetic shock in the hallway. (middle schooler)

His mother complained to the school once...but stopped when we (teachers) told her that her son isn't taking his medication during the school day (the entire grade level team was made aware) and that we are trying our best to keep her from having to pick him up from a hospital vs at school at the end of the day due to his poor decision making skills.[/quote]

Diabetic shock that comes on suddenly is caused by low blood sugar, not high.  You could have killed this child.

How can you have known that he wasn't taking his medication (do you mean insulin?) without the mother knowing.  It would have been a violation of federal law for the nurse to tell you, and a violation of ethics for the nurse not to tell the mom.

A kid with diabetes is going to need a detailed action plan, not teachers playing vigilante in the hallway.  [/quote]

I'll tell you how we knew--we'd send him to the nurse to take his meds and we'd get phone calls twenty minutes later asking where was said student. We'd ask said student if he went to see the nurse and he refused. Once we told Mom what he was doing...she was LIVID. The next grade had the same issue--he was deliberately eating things he wasn't supposed to be eating. It was well known throughout the school to keep an eye out on said kid because he was refusing his meds.[/quote]

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