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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child needed Lactaid with dairy. We had to fill out the form and DD had to go to the nurse’s office every day before lunch and any time there was an ice cream party (although knowing her she might have skipped the ice cream rather than bother). [/quote]

I’m the teacher who posted above. My child also needs a particular medication. The nurse has it and she goes regularly to get it. It’s a mild nuisance, but it hardly impacts her day. [/quote]

Calling Lactaid a medication is a stretch.  As a teacher, do school lunches seem leisurely to you?  Hypothetically, if it takes 5 minutes a day to detour to the nurse, that’s 25 minutes a week. If there are 36 weeks in a school year, that’s 15 hours/year that she spent not eating, not learning, not taking a break and interacting socially with her peers, but jumping through bureaucratic hoops.  If the school system asked you to give up 5 minutes of your lunch every day for a new regulation, would you shrug it off it as a mild nuisance, or resent it as something that needlessly impacted your day?  It was doable, and she did it, but it was ridiculous. [/quote]

The point is it’s a RULE. Students have died because of pills being passed around the schools. Have we all forgotten so soon?

I care about my students. I want them to be safe, and that’s getting a lot harder to do. You see this as an inconvenience. I see this as a slippery slope.

But ultimately, this argument is pointless. The policy exists. If you allow your child to carry medication, then accept the consequences if they are caught. [/quote]

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