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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's an innocent question. A lot of parents want the school to know if their child is on medication. A teacher can observe how well a dosing schedule is working for a child and may have suggestions for a different dosing schedule that works better. They also should know about medications in case of a medical emergency.  [/quote]

A teacher is not qualified to be offering opinions as to dosing schedule of any kind of medicine.   Medication is to be prescribed by a doctor and monitored by the doctor or pharmacist.  I would be highly annoyed if a teacher had comments as to my child's medication schedule.   It is none of her business.

Now, if the teacher wants to provide me with objective feedback --  "You child is falling asleep every day just before linch -- thought you should know" that's just fine.   Then it is up to me to determine if my child's allergy medicines need to be tweaked, for example.   But I would NOT want a teacher suggesting changes to medications.

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In our experience, teachers have NEVER said medication is not working or suggested changes.  We ask them periodically how DS is doing so that we can evaluate what's working/not working in terms of ADHD meds (we also see what life is like at home, but in a school context, it's important to know).  [/quote]

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