Posted on 06/07/2014 1:30:35 AM PDT by grundle
A San Antonio mother is furious because officials at her 10-year-old daughter’s elementary school banned sunscreen during a recent school field trip.
Guess what happened.
Of course, the poor kid came home crispily sunburned, reports local ABC affiliate KSAT.
To make matters worse, mad mom Christy Riggs said skin cancer runs in her family — and her father who had it passed away recently.
At issue is a district policy which prohibits kids from bringing sunscreen anywhere on school grounds. Riggs strongly disagrees with it.
North East Independent School District spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor defended the policy because, she said, the district considers sunscreen a medication.
“Typically, sunscreen is a toxic substance,” Chancellor told the Fox affiliate, “and we can’t allow toxic things in to be in our schools.”
The district spokeswoman argued that allowing kids to handle sunscreen is a very risky thing to do.
“They could possibly have an allergic reaction [or] they could ingest it. It’s really a dangerous situation,” Chancellor said.
“We have to look at the safety of all of our students and we can’t allow children to share sunscreen,” she added.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
A few local dermatologists ought to seek to educate the morons that portray educators in that district.
So much stupidity.
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
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than my own meandering
experience…I will dispense this advice now.
[Edited]
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen…
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Please tell me this is satire...
As described, this sounds like lawsuit material, willful endangerment of children.
I doubt this kid is paler than my wife, our biological children, and I. We all have very Irish skin. That’s why you put sunscreen on them in the morning before school. ALso, you make sure they’re wearing a somewhat high necked t-shirt with sleeves. And at the very least, a baseball cap if you can’t get the kid to wear a more protective sun type hat. And if the kid were old enough to be putting on her own sunscreen, she was old enough to understand she needed to keep that hat on her head.
About the best sunscreen is zinc oxide.
You can eat zinc oxide till the cows come home...
Did the mother put sun screen on the child before she left for school that day? A good 50 or higher applied 30 min before going in the sun will usually last most of the day. If you’re swimming you might have to reapply on some areas. If my child were having a field day I would put sunscreen on myself when they were getting dressed and send them off with a hat or cap.
My greatest accomplishment in life is that I was able to send my boys to private school and keep them away from the moronic government schools.
All 11 of our kids went to Catholic school, all the way through.
That's exactly right and if they were going swimming, you'd put one of those spf shirts on them. I'm not saying it's a good rule. It's more nanny state stuff. However, I don't think the rule is asinine or grounds for a lawsuit either. The last thing a school needs is a bunch of fourth grade boys running around with aerosol sunscreen. And how well can most 4th graders actually apply sunscreen (other than the aerosol kind) themselves? My guess is most of them not too well. Wouldn't a decent/non-halfwit parent have found an alternate method of protecting her kid?
Are all North East Independent School District employees morons?
“We have to look at the safety of all of our students and we can’t allow children to share sunscreen,” she added.
And, you know it’s true... The good of the many outweighs the good of the one. It’s critical that we teach, manage, and monitor to the least capable among us. It would be a travesty that a single child’s needs should have a focus.
Is a sarc tag really necessary? This is preposterous.
Home School!
“Typically, sunscreen is a toxic substance,” Chancellor told the Fox affiliate, “and we can’t allow toxic things in to be in our schools.”"
"Once you're in a hole, keep digging ... and digging ... and digging...."
The article goes on to say that with a doctor's note the sunscreen is allowed -- and protective clothing is probably a very good idea, too. So there are a few things that mom might have done herself. But the school district clearly employs world-class (Obama-class) idiots. Typically, sunscreen is a completely inert substance, and that's why the FDA allows it to be advertised as a good thing to be put on babies.
According to the CDC's most recent statistics, 9,154 people in the United States died from melanomas of the skin, that's compared to 11,078 firearm homicides. The school district is a "gun-free" zone. And an "intelligence-free" zone, too.
what a bunch of flipping idiots at that school
Frightening these people are allowed to teach our children.
Another school district that should be shut down because it is run by dangerous dictators who know very little about a lot of things. Sunscreen is not as toxic as the cleaning supplies that are used to clean the classrooms.
I don’t understand why people hold up TX as an example of small government. TX may be “ conservative” but only in the the sense that they wish to conserve the power of an interventionist State. Particularly where education is concerned.
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