Posted on 09/16/2014 5:53:34 AM PDT by wagglebee
A news story has been making the rounds about a ridiculous elementary school regulation against students’ use of lip balm. A fifth-grader named Grace Karaffa requested some Chapstick while on the playground and was denied.
Eleven year-old Grace started a petition to allow Stuarts Draft Elementary School students to use the product and gained 236 signatures before testifying to the school board.
She explained, “I was told I couldn’t use it. Then later that day, they started to bleed so I asked for Chapstick again and I was told that it was against the school policy for elementary kids to have Chapstick.”
The assistant superintendent of administration for Augusta County Public Schools informed reporters that Chapstick is considered an over-the-counter medication by the school board. In Augusta County Public Schools, Chapstick may only be administered by a school nurse and only if a physician has prescribed its use.
This may seem like a somewhat silly story about bureaucracy gone too far. However, it is outrageous and infuriating when you consider that a child may need a physician’s note to apply Chapstick — but, in 26 states and Washington, D.C., teenagers and pre-teens don’t even need parental permission to obtain an abortion.
An 11 year-old girl has to apply to her school district’s board to be able to use Chapstick on her chapped lips. Yet in some states, if an 11 year old girl wants a life-altering and potentially life-threatening surgical procedure, nobody has to know. In many other states, parents, guardians or even just a sibling or “mental health professional,” need only be informed of this child’s decision.
I’m not a parent, and I’m certainly not a lawmaker, doctor or an abortionist. But I’ve been an 11-year-old before, and I’ve known many in my life. I can say with perfect conviction and scientific backing: grave consequences result when 11 year-olds are allowed to make irreversible decisions which will affect the course of their lives forever. In fact, recent studies reveal their minds aren’t even yet fully formed to understand the long-term implications of their choices.
When the conscience of a nation has turned so absolutely upside-down that something helpful is forbidden, but something absolutely harmful is accepted without a second thought, the only solution is an appeal to the Creator of the human conscience — the One who wrote His law on the hearts of men.
LifeNews Note: Stacie Kuhns writes for the Bound4Life blog.
Amen!
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When Chapstick is outlawed only outlaws will have Chapstick.
These idiots are educating your children.
Kinda like having a Pigeon teach your child how to play chess.
I am sorry for any inconvenience.
He might poop on the board, and need toilet paper.
Oops, over the counter. Need a note from home for toilet paper.
Just write the note on TP. Two pigeons with one TP.
These idiots would have lost their minds in the 70’s! Who here remembers Lip Smackers? We had to have all the flavors!
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This is beyond absurd.
People will probably think that this is not a big deal and blow it off as not a valid reason to homeschool. And in light of the many really GOOD reasons to, it really doesn't seem significant.
But it's death by a thousand cuts.
A friend’s grandson recently broke his collar bone and needed Tylenol during the school day. Only the nurse could dispense the Tylenol. So what happens? The school nurse is out of school and the boy can’t get his pain reliever. He calls his Mom during lunch and she calls the school. They tell her she will have to come to school and give him the Tylenol herself. She does in home day care and had to load up 4 toddlers and schlep them to the high school. Simply nuts.
I am pretty sure we did eat some of them. :)
Exactly! A student cannot use lip balm but they can request a major surgical procedure.
Our illustrious public daycamp system.
Several years there was an issue with the herpes virus. Sharing of chapsticks increased the spread of the virus.
Requiring a note from a doctor helped to prevent children from sharing contaminated balm and reduced the spread of infection.
I would pull my kid from school with 24 hours. I would enlist every neighbor I could to home school the kids.
Time to go back to the one-room school & the basics.
This might provide the loophole to the zero tolerance policy with respect to weapons. A knife can be identified as an abortion-facilitating instrument and brought to school with the enthusiastic approval of the administration.
So, if a kid HAS herpes but also HAS a note from their doctor to bring chap-stick, everything is fine?
Placing kids IN SCHOOL and allowing them to breathe spreads all sorts of infections.
Educate the kids to stop sharing chap-sticks!
Typical socialist overkill and contempt for the peasantry. Instead of TEACHING the kids about the spread of disease and LIMITING the damage so that sharing it was forbidden, they OUTLAWED chapstick and SHAMED the chiildren.
Stupid plus control freaks = liberals.
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