Posted on 10/06/2021 9:14:56 AM PDT by allen592
A Virginia family is reporting the death of their 10-year-old daughter. The latter died of coronavirus after she was potentially exposed to the virus while fulfilling her duties in school as a class nurse. The girl, Teresa Sperry, had been assigned by her teacher to be escorting her sick classmates to the school nurse at Hillpoint Elementary School.
That is so sad! We’ve had designated kids to take classmates also. But that has been all along. Mostly I think because our whole non-HS campus is outdoors. All except a few grades have to go outside to get to the nurse room.
Nonsense. This has been pretty common lately.
While I totally feel for the family, we don’t need to just keep blaming people and suing, to get some satisfaction. No one meant anything bad. It is certainly not “negligence”.
Interesting.
Could that be like the ubiquitous mention of seatbelt status in news stories for the last 25 years?
As an adult, I had a strep infection take me down over the course of an hour while I was taking a college exam. Made it home about 10AM, went straight to bed fully clothed.
I really think I could have died if I had not laid face down on my pillow. My throat was swollen shut so mucous and saliva were flowing. I might have been unconscious for a while because I don’t remember anything until my kids got home from school.
Boy, this has massive lawsuit written all over it.
Jim Henson.
People don’t realize how deadly certain diseases are....only because of great medication advances does it seem superfluous.
See my post.
I think it’s become pretty common.
I guess the teacher probably thought she was helping the girl, giving her a responsibility and an honor. It would have been better to pick different kids to be “school nurse” each time. And why not “school doctor” or something more politically correct?
Ah, okay, I see now. In the 70’s, they sent us alone, at least in my grade school.
Not true: my son’s college has a current outbreak of step throat but not Covid.
why is it that I worked in food service for 30 years in state and federal prisons and never had an inmate complain of a food allergy.
Once upon a time they did not wait for results but started treating you right away for what was most likely.
Even if they had to change your treatment slightly to better target what you had they had made a start and kept you from getting worse.
Not anymore.
What happened?
Not in my day, either. We were sent to the nurse’s office alone. Then again, it was a small school back in the 70’s.
Others here are saying the same thing. Apparently it’s common practice. But, like you said, it’s probably not a good idea during a pandemic. This school even claims it violates school policy.
10 year olds cannot get the shots.
Don’t be surprised if the CDC has changed “strep” to “covid” when they turn in the numbers.
Okay, I see... The nurse’s office could be outside the main school building, so a child would need an escort.
Still, I would think an adult should escort a sick child. Even this school says it has a policy against kids escorting kids. So, if this child was escorting students, then the teacher was violating school policy.
This is a sad case. We don’t know whether any of the children she escorted were diagnosed with COVID or strep, though.
“What kind of person would assign a child to escort the sick children to the nurse’s office?”
Most likely the Biden voter type
“Who wants to be ‘Class nurse’? But you have to volunteer to be vaccinated first. And don’t tell your parents”.
Testing positive for Covid is also a symptom of being tested for Covid whether you have it or not.
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