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[theweaselking]

Texas passes a law allowing diabetic children to test their blood sugar level, and take insulin and sugar, while in school.

Why the fuck was this a question, and why the fuck did it take a *law*, you useless hicks?

Prior to the law, some schools didn't allow diabetic students to attend certain extracurricular activities or to check their blood glucose levels in class. Some students couldn't carry monitors or medication to class. And, in severe cases, parents had to take their children off campus several times a day to administer insulin.

Beau Yarborough, an incoming senior at Garland High School in Dallas County, said he missed countless hours of class time in middle school going to the nurse's office, the only place where he was allowed to test his blood glucose levels.

Teachers sometimes refused to let him leave class, even when he was feeling dizzy and faint — danger signs for a diabetic.

Spring Branch Memorial High School junior Claire Conroy had to walk out of class when a substitute teacher refused to let her go to the office to test her blood glucose levels. Students whose levels are too high or too low can feel tired, have blurred vision or problems concentrating. They can eventually faint, slip into a coma and even die.

"Some teachers don't really understand that it's an illness. I can tell some of them think I'm faking it," the 15-year-old said.

Woodlands mother Debbie Martin can't wait for those higher standards to spread throughout the state. Her son had to smuggle in his monitor and was bullied for having diabetes.

"I'm not sure I can send him back to the school not knowing if it's a safe environment," she said.

Comments

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

Now we just need to modify the "one strike" laws that suspend or expel asthmatic kids who bring ephedrine or steroid-based medications to school. Because, you know, they're just faking not being able to breathe, they're all just a bunch of junkies. X

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

The fuck?

Wow. What about kids who have to balance their humours? I know that when I've got an excess of yellow bile that I sure need a good bleeding. Will the nurse have the leeches I need?

Idiots.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Psst! Your snark appears to be implying that the kids and parents are the ones with the junk science, while the teachers are being unfairly put-upon to need to recognise the idiocy.

A more correct form of that snark would be "Well, shit, next they're going to want to be teaching evolution, and we ALL KNOW how useful that shit is to science when compared to the one true creationintelligent design myth."

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... yes, you are indeed correct.

Wait, this is another Texas one. There seems to be a lot of "batshit crazy" coming out of there in the last while.

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Diabetes is a *theory*, not a fact.

At least in Texas, anyway.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Why did it need a law? Who the fuck knows. Why did I need a doctor's prescription to get testing strips and sharps. And by sharps I mean something thats basically I really well designed thumb tack. If I had to take injections I can see needing a doctor's permission to get syringes and insulin. But the fucking BLOOD TESTING stuff?

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Not enough "What the F...resias?!" in the world.

[panacea1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember the bullshit my brother (a Type I diabetic) had to put up with in school, having to keep his sugar testing stuff in the principal's office and all that. IT shouldn't have to be a law, it should just be common sense, but I guess you aren't allowed to have common sense in schools anymore.

(got here via silmaril by the way)

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Weird. Classmate & friend of mine back in high school who had diabetes carried his test kit & insulin/needles right on his person, and used it wherever he felt like it.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Depends highly on state and/or school district.

I have no idea if I was allowed to bring my own Advil to school or not, but you bet I brought it. Between headaches and cramps, there was no way I was going without it.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

It's not that you're not allowed to have it, it's that it isn't nearly as common as people make it out to be.

schoolkids with meds

[bookwoman72.livejournal.com]

In NYC schools, kids are officially supposed to give all their medications to the school nurse, but in practice, no teacher I know would turn in a kid with asthma for using an inhaler in class. In the case of a potentially life-threatening illness, you can't always wait for the nurse. And anyway, how would the kid get up the stairs while struggling to breathe?