Posted on 10/05/2005 1:15:39 PM PDT by linkinpunk
Teacher Mistakes Boy's Insulin Pump For Phone, Rips It Out
Boy Is Diabetic
POSTED: 11:16 am EDT October 5, 2005
CLERMONT, Fla. -- School officials in Lake County, Fla., said a substitute teacher pulled out a student's insulin pump after mistaking it for a cell phone.
Cliffton Hassam told East Ridge High School officials that his insulin pump began beeping in class Friday. But before he could turn it off, Hassam said substitute teacher Richard Maline ripped it from his leg.
Hassam is diabetic. The insulin pump regulates his blood sugar level.
Lake County School District officials said Maline pulled the pump because he thought the beeping came from a cell phone. They said Maline realized his mistake after he grabbed the pump.
In the written statement Hassam gave to school officials Tuesday, he said the pump fell to the floor and the tube came out of his leg. The high school junior said his blood sugar levels did not return to normal until early this week.
School district officials said Maline has been removed from the pool of substitute teachers.
Mistakes happen...
Looks like a tamagotchi toy.
Should be removed from the gene pool, too.......
Teachers know best. That's what they keep telling us.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.........
Lawsuit ...
Yikes! Poor kid.
Major ouch! ---
BTW, 20+ years ago, when the first IP's first came out, they were the size of a Cracker Jacks box and covered with lights.
The first guy to wear one was eating lunch in a restuarant and looked up to see he was surrounded by a SWAT team.
Seemed someone saw it and thought it was a bomb.
Way to go there Peggy Hill!
Snatching nonweapons out of kids' hands is not SOP.
OMG!!!
As a diabetic myself, I can't imagine anything so horrible and personally invasive.
The Am Diabetes Assn needs to do some outreach to idiot teachers if they can't tell a pump from a phone. Although, considering so few phones are attached to people's bodies w/a freakin' cannula, you'd think it wouldn't be an issue.
No doubt this event will cause the teachers union to call for an immediate rasie in pay and reduction in class size so these kind of things don't happen
There have been three diabetics that were arrested by the police here in the last 15 years and died in jail. In each case, the IDIOTS in charge thought the person was faking and/or drunk. There has been NO punishment for these cases.
The teacher should be charged with assault.
OOOOOOPS!!!!! Better get out the checkbook.
Hmm another public school teacher with temper issues
forgot to take her plethora of psych meds again?
Google "pap smear".
As a thought,
it would be really easy to do a blood glucose test at the time you're doing the blood alcohol.
It's sad, because drunk and out of control blood sugars can look alike.
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