The lack of common sense in people who are in a position of trust can be astounding.
A news story has been popping up over the past day or so concerning the death of an eleven year old boy due to the neglect of his teacher. He had been sent out of the classroom, where he had an asthma attack. according to this report, he wasn't taken to hospital until his mother collected him and was informed he was ill. The fact that this was allowed to happen is terrible, but unfortunately not the first time I have heard about this sort of thing happening.
I had a very similar experience when I, myself was eleven. During the schoolday- before lunchtime, even, I had felt ill and gone to the school nurse. I was sent back to classes. I carried on my school day feeling terrible. Not one teacher or member of staff even bothered to check my temperature. I got on the school bus to get home and I curled up on the sofa feeling sorry for myself- I felt cold, so I even buried myself in a blanket. When my mother got home she took one look at me, put her hand to my forehead and immediately ripped the blanket off of me. She asked me a bunch of questions, I can't remember what they are now, and she checked me over for rashes before strapping me into the car and rushing off to hospital where the doctor saw me immediately and repeated everything my mother had just done. Apparently- I had been exibiting signs of Meningitis C. Fortunately I didn't have it- but according to my mom, if it had turned out I had- I could have been dead because of my school's stupidity. This was in a private school- a school less than 10 minutes away from a hospital.
Anyone else out there with a similar experience? Or were these both just very unfortunate and isolated incidents?
Written Badly by Naomi Wong
My heart goes out to Sam Linton's friends and family.
It's so sad when things like this happen. Teachers are put in a position of responsibility for a reason and I don't understand why some of them choose to take the "blind route" rather than sending a child to a nurse or in cases of abuse, the school counselor at the very least. Great post!
ReplyDeleteSchools are so afraid of being sued that they refuse to treat any child except for very minor bumps and scrapes. I remember having to either keep my child home from school or travel in every day to give them a dose of medication that could have been administered by the school nurse. As for using common sense, that seems to have been thrown out the window.
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