Anonymous
08/27/2023 19:27
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t get all the suggestions to just hide pills. MCPS is dealing with quite the fentanyl crisis right now. If I see *any* pill on a student, I’m going to be reporting it. I will not be assuming it is advil. If you want to help us out, get the form signed and have your child go to the nurse.
-teacher
oh shut up
-principal
Anonymous
08/27/2023 19:26
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler has a zipper on her lunch box and I put a tiny pouch with 4 Advil in there. Have done it for years.
Yes she is breaking the rules. No we don’t care. She gets bad cramps and I work. No one has time for doctor notes and going to the nurse.
Planning to do the same for my MS girl.
I had a student leave their lunch box in my classroom. I looked inside, hoping there was a name, and found pills. This family basically forced me to make a choice between risking my career and getting a kid in major trouble.
It’s an incredibly selfish move.
You shouldn't be looking inside anybody's anything.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 19:22
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
I don’t get all the suggestions to just hide pills. MCPS is dealing with quite the fentanyl crisis right now. If I see *any* pill on a student, I’m going to be reporting it. I will not be assuming it is advil. If you want to help us out, get the form signed and have your child go to the nurse.
-teacher
-teacher
Anonymous
08/27/2023 18:57
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
It's a silly policy but it's really not that bit of a deal to fill out the little form and keep the pills at the school. I'm a mess with paperwork but even I could handle that.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 18:56
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They are not allowed to have it, but the risk of getting caught with Tylenol is exceedingly low. The risk of getting suspended for it is even lower.
Not true. Many schools have a “zero tolerance” drug policy. If you are caught with it, you could very easily be suspended no matter the policy.
Having said that, it is stupid that girls can’t have access to OTC pain relief during the school day since period pain is very common at that age.
Your Doc can prescribe an 8 hour dose of anaprox (which is just extra large dose of naproxen which is available over the counter). If take before school, that should last the school day.
If you don’t want to do that, get the doc to write an Rx for ibuprofen and send a bottle to the school nurse and give permission to dose as needed.
Which schools have zero tolerance drug policies? Those are very unpopular these days.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 18:54
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler has a zipper on her lunch box and I put a tiny pouch with 4 Advil in there. Have done it for years.
Yes she is breaking the rules. No we don’t care. She gets bad cramps and I work. No one has time for doctor notes and going to the nurse.
Planning to do the same for my MS girl.
I had a student leave their lunch box in my classroom. I looked inside, hoping there was a name, and found pills. This family basically forced me to make a choice between risking my career and getting a kid in major trouble.
It’s an incredibly selfish move.
How dramatic are you? Risking your career. Just let it be. The horror of Advil
Anonymous
08/27/2023 18:48
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler has a zipper on her lunch box and I put a tiny pouch with 4 Advil in there. Have done it for years.
Yes she is breaking the rules. No we don’t care. She gets bad cramps and I work. No one has time for doctor notes and going to the nurse.
Planning to do the same for my MS girl.
I had a student leave their lunch box in my classroom. I looked inside, hoping there was a name, and found pills. This family basically forced me to make a choice between risking my career and getting a kid in major trouble.
It’s an incredibly selfish move.
What grade was the girl in?
What kind of pills did you find?
I’m a poster who sends my kids with Advil. The little Advil pills are actually labeled.
If you want to report my kid for carrying several Advil in her lunch, go ahead, but that’s ridiculous.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 16:30
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
By 8th grade I'd send in a dose of cold medicine (for a lingering cold, not a contagious cold) for lunchtime or a dose of ibuprofen for braces tightening or soccer injury or something. My kid knew the time to take it. It was labeled in original packaging/blister and I wrote time on it with a sharpie. I figured he might get a talking to, and I'd take the heat. It was fine.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 16:27
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler has a zipper on her lunch box and I put a tiny pouch with 4 Advil in there. Have done it for years.
Yes she is breaking the rules. No we don’t care. She gets bad cramps and I work. No one has time for doctor notes and going to the nurse.
Planning to do the same for my MS girl.
I had a student leave their lunch box in my classroom. I looked inside, hoping there was a name, and found pills. This family basically forced me to make a choice between risking my career and getting a kid in major trouble.
It’s an incredibly selfish move.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 16:26
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Yes, it's basically a pretty sexist policy, given how many teen girls have cramps. When I was in school, if you needed pain medication, you could go to the nurse's office, and she would call your parent who could give oral authorization over the phone. They don't do that anymore. You need a doctor's note and it needs to be really specific about the dosing and frequency.
99% of the teen girls are carrying motrin or tylenol in the pouch they use to carry tampons and pads. No one is searching those. If they are discrete about taking them, no one cares.
My kid also takes Tums as she gets bad stomach aches.
99% of the teen girls are carrying motrin or tylenol in the pouch they use to carry tampons and pads. No one is searching those. If they are discrete about taking them, no one cares.
My kid also takes Tums as she gets bad stomach aches.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 16:08
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler has a zipper on her lunch box and I put a tiny pouch with 4 Advil in there. Have done it for years.
Yes she is breaking the rules. No we don’t care. She gets bad cramps and I work. No one has time for doctor notes and going to the nurse.
Planning to do the same for my MS girl.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 15:56
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
I wouldn’t send my kid with Tylenol because he is an outgoing jokester who would shake it in class to be funny or something equally dumb. But I as a MS/HS student was the opposite and definitely took medicines (cough drop, a Sudafed pill, whatever) to school. So if I had a kid like me, yes. My kid? Nope!
Anonymous
08/27/2023 15:38
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
My middle schooler has a zipper on her lunch box and I put a tiny pouch with 4 Advil in there. Have done it for years.
Yes she is breaking the rules. No we don’t care. She gets bad cramps and I work. No one has time for doctor notes and going to the nurse.
Yes she is breaking the rules. No we don’t care. She gets bad cramps and I work. No one has time for doctor notes and going to the nurse.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 13:35
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:As in, that they hold onto and take when they need it? Or is MCPS going to freak at that?
Can you? No. Do you? Yes.
Anonymous
08/27/2023 13:25
Subject: Can I send my middle schooler with Advil/Tylenol?
Anonymous wrote:Send your kid with it. And tell her to take it discreetly if she needs it. NBD.
Kids are vaping and smoking weed in our schools. If they want to hassle my daughter over an Advil, that’s insane.
Exactly. The school is out of its mind here.