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10 Dec 2013, 10:09 pm

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/2013/ ... ma-inhaler

Well it is now official everyone: Zero Tolerance policies will kill your kids!

As if I didn't have more reason enough to hate them already.

Seriously, who thought this whole concept was even a good idea to begin with?



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10 Dec 2013, 10:25 pm

That makes me very angry. I hate stupid people whose decisions end up hurting and killing people.

Such people should be fired, put on welfare, and placed in very uncomfortable section 8 housing for the rest of their lives. And they should not be allowed to own dogs.



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10 Dec 2013, 11:04 pm

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One year after her son Ryan's death, Sandra Gibbons is now pleading with Ontario schools to raise their zero tolerance policy against asthma inhalers, the Globe and Mail reported.

The 12-year-old reportedly fell unwell while playing outside during a recess at his school in Straffordville.

His friends had to carry him to the principal's office, where inhalers were kept under lock and key due to the school's policy prohibiting students from carrying them around.

And the mother is advocating for a public change one year after her son's death.



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10 Dec 2013, 11:06 pm

Is an asthma inhaler even an abusable product?



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10 Dec 2013, 11:29 pm

AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote:
Is an asthma inhaler even an abusable product?


If done improperly, anything can be abused.



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11 Dec 2013, 12:54 am

I think the school should be charged.


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11 Dec 2013, 3:21 am

So stupid. Better dead than possibly high from a drug that can't make you high?

Do they think that rescue inhalers are like cold medicine that just make you feel better rather than something that helps you not to die?

Oh the stupid, it burns!



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11 Dec 2013, 10:28 am

And here us another article.

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http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.h ... -know-best

School boards across Ontario vary in their asthma management plans, some of which simply lump rescue inhalers along with all other medication, which must be stored in the principal’s office or elsewhere. At many schools, these policies were made explicit during the 1990s, when administrators saw a surge in kids taking medications for Attention Deficit Disorder and other behavioural afflictions. But there is an obvious difference between Ritalin and Ventolin; the latter is a fast-acting medication that can save a life, particularly when time is of the essence. It is baffling that school administrators should keep both behind the same lock and key.

Ryan’s parents are working with Conservative MPP Jeff Yurek on a private member’s bill that would force standardized asthma management plans on all school boards. “Ryan’s Law” would allow students to carry rescue inhalers on their person and ensure all schools adhere to a comprehensive asthma plan. Education Minister Liz Sandals expressed her support for the bill during its second reading but stressed the need for a broader bill that included other medical conditions such as anaphylaxis. That’s fine, except Ontario already has a law mandating comprehensive anaphylaxis plans on all schools in the province; “Sabrina’s Law,” named for 13-year-old Sabrina Shannon who died after experiencing an anaphylactic reaction at her school in 2003, came into law in Ontario on January 1, 2006.



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11 Dec 2013, 1:01 pm

this is disgusting


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11 Dec 2013, 1:26 pm

That is a typical school district. They care a lot more about covering their own asses than about the welfare of their students.



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11 Dec 2013, 4:01 pm

And on a related topic.

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http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local- ... s-concern/

Instead, she registered her daughter at another school in the same district, where officials allowed Bryna to carry her EpiPen in her backpack in addition to one kept in the school office in case she needs to have a shot of epinephrine in an emergency. The school also agreed to send letters home to other parents asking them not to pack peanut products in their children’s lunches.


Now, this is more the way things should be.



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11 Dec 2013, 4:32 pm

And if a school can't handle something as straightforward as a kid with asthma, how about situations involving kids on the spectrum?  For example . . 

a kid can sometimes feel a meltdown coming on, and he or she can matter-of-factly and nondisruptively step flow from the main flow of class activity and take the time needed for themselves so they feel okay again.  And the student needs to be the one to make this determination.

In a speech, Temple Grandin once said that she was not allowed to stim at the lunch table.  She was allowed to stim during rest period after lunch.  And I don't know whether she was talking about school or home.

And it will probably help us to have discussions among ourselves.  When is stimming fun, and helps to maintain concentration, and helps to deal with sensory issues?  And when is stimming a distraction to the person doing the stimming?

These are more subtle points and, to use their own language, I don't think most schools have the skill sets to deal with these.  :P

To some extent, we need to build our own institutions.  And perhaps run multiple tracks, advocating and challenging schools to improve and also running our own social service agencies to directly help people.

And we can study women's rights beginning in the 1960s and continuing to today, and gay rights in the 1960s and 70s continuing till today, etc., other movements for civil rights, equal rights, and human potential, and we can draw the lessons we think are best.  And we can take it medium step by medium step observing feedback as we go along.  What else can we do?



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11 Dec 2013, 4:37 pm

AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote:
And the mother is advocating for a public change one year after her son's death.


The woman needs to mourn.

If they were so strict about having medication behind lock and key, then why couldn't the kid's teacher have it?

And then, he could need it on the way to and from school.

I would've taken him out of that school in the first place.


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11 Dec 2013, 6:00 pm

The school should 100% be held responsible for this. The stupidity people display when it comes to matters of children is astounding, the world is never going to be free from danger and your paternalistic stupidity actually cost a child his life.



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11 Dec 2013, 7:59 pm

I'm sure this mother has mourned, probably more than we can possibly imagine.

I applaud her in her fight so that other children will not be at risk of what happened to her son.



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11 Dec 2013, 8:05 pm

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http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/some-waterl ... z2nDaqrOqt

In a statement, the Waterloo Region District School Board tells CTV News that while school offices must be notified of students who use inhalers, the inhalers don’t necessarily have to stay out of the classroom or the schoolyard.

“A child of sufficient maturity is permitted to carry an inhaler with written authorization from the parent/guardian,” the board says.



And this is another positive example of how things should be.