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Anonymous wrote:you do rewlize the health forms are on file in the clinic? Teachers can check


PP retired school nurse and this isn't and should not be easily accessible information; it's confidential, protected health information and not accessible for teachers. I had no access to individual student records. Make sense?

Don’t be so thick. You weren’t a teacher so you obviously don’t know. Teachers collect the health forms, alphabetize them, and are the ones who turn them in! Of course they read them and are aware of any medications a child is on (in case kids need to go to clinic to get doses). They have to know who has diabetes, who has allergies, etc. In many cases, they have to be epi pen trained. So yes, teachers are always aware of health issues and medications students are on, especially if it impacts the classroom.

Huh? No. We submit health forms directly to the main office, and they are filed with the nurse. Yes, a teacher should know if there is a medication plan that she has a role in, but teachers absolutely should not be able to go through all past health forms in the files for any kid!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you do rewlize the health forms are on file in the clinic? Teachers can check


PP retired school nurse and this isn't and should not be easily accessible information; it's confidential, protected health information and not accessible for teachers. I had no access to individual student records. Make sense?

Don’t be so thick. You weren’t a teacher so you obviously don’t know. Teachers collect the health forms, alphabetize them, and are the ones who turn them in! Of course they read them and are aware of any medications a child is on (in case kids need to go to clinic to get doses). They have to know who has diabetes, who has allergies, etc. In many cases, they have to be epi pen trained. So yes, teachers are always aware of health issues and medications students are on, especially if it impacts the classroom.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you do rewlize the health forms are on file in the clinic? Teachers can check


PP retired school nurse and this isn't and should not be easily accessible information; it's confidential, protected health information and not accessible for teachers. I had no access to individual student records. Make sense?

Don’t be so thick. You weren’t a teacher so you obviously don’t know. Teachers collect the health forms, alphabetize them, and are the ones who turn them in! Of course they read them and are aware of any medications a child is on (in case kids need to go to clinic to get doses). They have to know who has diabetes, who has allergies, etc. In many cases, they have to be epi pen trained. So yes, teachers are always aware of health issues and medications students are on, especially if it impacts the classroom.

Anonymous wrote:you do rewlize the health forms are on file in the clinic? Teachers can check


PP retired school nurse and this isn't and should not be easily accessible information; it's confidential, protected health information and not accessible for teachers. I had no access to individual student records. Make sense?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Either a Troll or a parent who has had a number of teachers suggest evaluations far more gently and the OP has ignored those suggestions.

DS teacher suggested a speech evaluation when he was in K. She was very gentle and kind but it only took a week or so for her to notice that something was off.

If this is a real post, and I don't think that it is, the OP should contact the school and ask for a meeting with the Teacher and the Principal. The Teachers actions was not appropriate. I would also suspect that the Teacher phrased things differently but the message was that the child was out of control, distracting other kids, and not listening to the Teacher who was telling him to stop. The OP is phrasing things in a manner that makes it sound as if the Teacher was 100% blunt and rude.

If it is real, I wonder how many other Teachers and Coaches and Adults have commented on the boys behavior and the OP has brushed it off.

But this feels really, really off.

+1 that or the kid was medicated last year, but went off his meds for the summer. It was probably in the file. Parent was hoping she wouldn’t have to start the meds so soon, and the teacher caller her out on the first day of school to report he needs to go back on meds. The kid has been medicated before, no doubt. No teacher would suggest meds to a kid who hadn’t already been on them.

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Ok, this brings up quite a rat's nest of potential issues. How and why would the teacher know if the kid was on medication last year? Unless a child's use of medications (whether for ADHD, diabetes, or anything else) requires accommodations there is ABSOLUTELY no need for there to be any school record, much less for this year's teacher to know if the kid was on meds last year. An IEP, for example SHOULD NOT state whether or not a kid is on medication to manage the ADHD (and schools cannot require parents to have their kid on medication).

So, no, it was not "probably in the file".

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Anonymous wrote:If this is a real post, the teacher's behavior is completely inappropriate. For the sake of your child, and the sake of children with real special needs, please copy and paste your post and send it to your principal (with your name and your child's name). This shouldn't be happening at your school.

+1 Teachers know they are not medical professionals. The fact that the OP is suggesting that the teacher said this without doing the normal procedure of a school professional conducted diagnostic/504 plan etc. seems trollish to me too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either a Troll or a parent who has had a number of teachers suggest evaluations far more gently and the OP has ignored those suggestions.

DS teacher suggested a speech evaluation when he was in K. She was very gentle and kind but it only took a week or so for her to notice that something was off.

If this is a real post, and I don't think that it is, the OP should contact the school and ask for a meeting with the Teacher and the Principal. The Teachers actions was not appropriate. I would also suspect that the Teacher phrased things differently but the message was that the child was out of control, distracting other kids, and not listening to the Teacher who was telling him to stop. The OP is phrasing things in a manner that makes it sound as if the Teacher was 100% blunt and rude.

If it is real, I wonder how many other Teachers and Coaches and Adults have commented on the boys behavior and the OP has brushed it off.

But this feels really, really off.

+1 that or the kid was medicated last year, but went off his meds for the summer. It was probably in the file. Parent was hoping she wouldn’t have to start the meds so soon, and the teacher caller her out on the first day of school to report he needs to go back on meds. The kid has been medicated before, no doubt. No teacher would suggest meds to a kid who hadn’t already been on them.

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Anonymous wrote:Absolutely didn't happen. Even the support staff at my school know that you just cannot do that, meaning EVER suggest to a parent that they medicate their kid. If it's not actually illegal it is at the very least against state policy.

I guess it's slightly possible that some teacher at Podunk Elementary or WTF Private Academy might have missed the memo somehow, but even that thought just boggles my mind.

Anonymous wrote:Teachers know what ADHD looks like. Get an eval