another odd ps story

[pixelroper]

article (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/29/me-mother-school-took-girls-crutches/?news-breaking)

I really do not even know what to say. Thought this bizarre though, wanted to share.

[Tracey in TX]

Oh my...
I predict an unemployed nurse very soon. Hopefully the girl won't require additional surgery as a result of the lack of crutches.

[Karenciavo]

I'm not a nurse or anything, but as a letter carrier I have had strained MCLs that I walked on despite doctor's orders. How did the knee cap wind up on the side of the leg?

My feeling is any school policy that is not followed, no matter how ridiculous, should result in the student being sent home. Isn't that the safest thing to do?

[HollyinNNV]

article (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/29/me-mother-school-took-girls-crutches/?news-breaking)

I really do not even know what to say. Thought this bizarre though, wanted to share.


after reading the story. It really only covers the student's side. I wonder if the school (in the interest of protecting privacy of the student) is not giving out information?

I just don't believe we are seeing everything here.
Holly

[JFS in IL]

was in 7th grade he sprained his ankle in gym class...no one called me until the end of the day when the nurse finally called to let me know he could not walk home. Poor kid had been hobbling around the school (including stairs!) for half the day. I was ticked off. Took kid to ER for x-ray, etc (on ped's order) and the doctor there sent us home with crutches.

Took kid to school next day and went in office to 1. complain about lack of a timely phone call when the accident happened and 2. to see if kid would be allowed on the lone elevator since stairs and crutches would not mix.

Was told that w/o a note signed by the ER doc. allowing crutches at school ds could NOT use them. Well - all I had was the ER paperwork in general. The school let ds use his crutches that day...then I had to keep him home the next day since did not have a note. Stupid middle school!

Forward to high school - ds sprains his ankle AGAIN. This is the 3rd time, now - we already know the routine, and ahve crutches. I call the nurse at high school to say that we won't have a doc. note for the crutches (unless the school wants to pay for the ER or doctor visit :-) and she tells me that in high school I the parent can sign a kid out of PE and sign a note for crutches for up to three days. She was amazed to hear our middle school experience.

I believe the parent's tale of woe. It was, after all, a middle school!

[pixelroper]

I'm suddenly reminded of my own experience. Playing basketball in gym class, went up for a rebound, hit the ball back up, it came straight down & bent my little finger backward, pulling the tendon & a chunk of finger bone w/it. Yuck. I brought it to the attention of the p.e. teacher who then yelled at me for leaving the court and being a big baby. Within 15 min. I had a very black little finger swollen to 4x its size. She then sent me to the nurse immediately. I was indignant (& in pain).

As far as the students vs school version, I can't say.
There must have been a rash of phony crutch use??? An excuse to...get out of something? use as a weapon?

[LisaK in VA]

When my older brother was a freshman in high school, he injured his ankle while playing basketball (slammed the ankle into the basketball pole). the PE teacher told him to "walk it off." No evaluations, no phone calls...

Around 3:00, my mom got a phone call from my brother (pay phones back in those days), begging her to pick him up because he, "couldn't hop anymore."

My mom picked up my brother and took him straight to an E.R. The ankle was broken in 3 places, and required surgery to fix.

Not strained... no pulled ligament... not a sprain -- BROKEN. BTW, PE was 2nd period. He'd been in pain and hopping around since about 9:30am.

[strider]

I watch my little cousins on weekends. Their mother is brain-damaged from a brain tumor and lives in a nursing home. In other words--four years ago, their mother was a "normal" functioning person who had tea parties with her kids. Her second surgery left her brain-damaged and functioning much like an Alzheimer's patient.

The oldest cousin (11yo) had a meltdown at school one day. This poor, dear little girl, who is normally very matter-of-fact about her awful, sad situation, just couldn't bear it that day. She started to cry and couldn't stop.

She cried all. day. long. And she cried at the afterschool program. She didn't once stop crying--sometimes silently, sometimes with great sobs. They tried to comfort her, but it didn't occur to ANYONE to call me or call her father and LET HER GO HOME AND MOURN HER MOTHER IN PEACE.

I was livid. I told her that next time this happens (it has to happen--how could it not?) to just find a way to make them call me or her father. No matter what they say at school, we will come get her.

There is a lack of common sense that I do not understand.

[pixelroper]

There is a lack of common sense that I do not understand.

awfully Twilight Zone-ish, I do not get it either :confused:

btw- a young child crying all day is far more disturbing than confiscation of crutches. Did the school have anything to say for its self??

[strider]

awfully Twilight Zone-ish, I do not get it either :confused:

btw- a young child crying all day is far more disturbing than confiscation of crutches. Did the school have anything to say for its self??



My impression is that since she wasn't throwing up or feverish it didn't occur to anyone to call her father.