Posted on 10/25/2014 8:30:24 AM PDT by lowbridge
Students at a Mapleton Junior High School in Utah County were asked to take inventory of the things inside their family medicine cabinet and then turn that list into their health teacher.
A parent, Onika Nugent, was not pleased with the assignment, so she posted the assignment on Facebook and sent a note to the teacher and the principal.
She shared a portion of the letter she sent school officials: “I said, ‘Although it may be a good idea for parents to do an inventory of their medicine cabinet, I believe it is inappropriate for students to counsel their parents, or report to the school what that inventory is. It is a complete invasion of privacy.'”
Part of the conversation online centered around whether or not the assignment was part of a larger curriculum. Nugent said the school has since responded and said the teacher made the assignment and the form herself and that it wasn’t part of a larger curriculum.
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All is legit....but only if the teacher doesn’t mind we look over her situation...maybe her credit rating, or her financial status? Once you open a door to gaze inside....it just gets messy if you ask me.
Now why would they do that? Bet they had the write down who the prescription was made out to too. Daddy’s on anti-depressants and Mommy is on hormone therapy.
” I’m sorry sir, you can’t buy a gun.”
“Why, I don’t have a criminal record and served in the military. “
“Well sir, we understand you’re being treated for PTSD and are taking anti-depressants.”
”What the hell? How’d you know that?!”
“We have our soures.”
Liberals. Now using your own children to spy on you and they don’t even know it.
relax, they have it all in their electronic records already. This is just part of a QA study. /semisarc
Many people keep their medication in that cabinet. So what the teacher did was more than a simple invasion of their private ‘space’, it also could have revealed medications for all sorts of ailments.
What if the person was on psych meds, reproductive meds, meds for highly personal issues. These things could cause by way of common knowledge some sort of community group-think that was highly negative.
Kids go home and tell their parents. Teachers talk amongst themselves. This was a terrible idea.
The lack of judgement here is amazing.
At least the school district spokesman said it was an inappropriate assignment. Give the district credit for that. Seems like the district had no idea what this teacher did, but should find out why the teacher thought it was appropriate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov
Soviet Russia. Although the story of the boy who turned in his parents may not have been true, it summed up the Stalinist era nicely. Or you can look out your window and see how America does it.
This is nothing new - just apparently unearthed. In 1972 my kids were going to public grade schools in Overland Park, Kansas. We came home and found my daughter had thrown her father’s Alka Seltzer away. When asked she said because it was an “upper” and her teacher had told her they should throw away all the “upper’s” and “downer’s” they found in their parent’s medicine cabinet. The one thing you always made sure of in our house was that we always had an ample supply of Alka Seltzer. I can guarantee you that it didn’t happen again at home. Nor was that part of the lesson plan at school any more after her father spoke at the one and only PTA meeting he attended and shared his thoughts and the one and only District Board meeting he attended where he also spoke on the issue.
Even a long time ago, as kids, we were given strict instructions to *never* talk to a news reporter or anyone asking questions about our family, without pre-approval from our parents.
Likewise, if we were given questionable school assignments, to vet them with our parents.
This was a wise call, because even back then, by the time I was in fifth grade, people of low character, either in government or some other organization, were trying to change public policy by submitting corrupt “surveys” to the students, designed to solicit really horrible desired responses. Mostly about sex, drugs and violence.
When it is so blatant that even fifth graders refuse to fill out their surveys, you know it’s bad. And our mildly cynical teacher later told us that our boycott didn’t matter, that they would “extrapolate” the results they wanted and attribute them to us anyway.
Hey, I learned a new word. “Extrapolate”. And became even less fond of socialist-Democrats.
They threw the teacher under the bus.
But that isn’t enough.
A teacher who would do such a thing has a political agenda and isn’t qualified to be in a position where she can mold and influence the minds of children.
Fire her for cause.
It may even be a violation of the health law as it relates to patient privacy. FWIW, I recently needed to fill a prescription for something the FDA moved to schedule 2 from schedule 3. First pharmacy said they were out and would not be restocking for a few weeks, come back then. Since the pain med was for a tooth problem, I did not wish to wait two weeks so called another one. Get this: “sorry, cannot by law tell you over the phone whether we stock or have in stock that particular med”. So, I had to drag myself up there to see if they had enough meds to fill my 16 pill perscription. So, if it is not legal to even tell one over the phone if a pharmacy has something in stock, how much of a violation would it be for some stooge to peruse one’s medicine cabinet and report back to the state school what they found??
This trend of using children to scold, nag or to so-called ‘educate’ their parents with propaganda went into overdrive with environmental and recycling concerns, and continues to this day. It’s always good parents to listen to their child’s concerns, but children need to express such concerns respectfully.
The fact that today’s children are on the whole, far more computer literate and media savvy than their parents, adds to the imbalance unless the child remains respectful of their parents, and adults in general.
My doctor asked "do you take any recreational drugs?"
I say, you bet! I shoot heroin three times a day, drink a case of beer a day, and I've removed all the batteries from my smoke detectors!
My wife gives a similar response.
At my kid's school they asked about guns? We responded with, we go trap shooting daily, hand load ammo, and fire mortars into the local sand pit quarry. We only eat fried foods, wear no helmets when bike riding, and run down the stairs with scissors.
They get the point and leave you alone.
More government intrusion.
PS - Next up, how many guns and how much ammunition and is it secured; how many kitchen knives ... does dad yell at mom a lot, etc.
My wife had a friend who passed away at home, from cancer. By law (Illinois) the coroner had to come to her house and pronounce her dead. Alright, so far but while there he also confiscated every medicine in the house that had her name on it.
I’m almost sure this was also illegal. Wouldn’t it violate HIPPA? Your medical records are confidential, and without your express permission I doubt that even your children have a right to know what medications you are taking, much less their school teachers.
Disclosing that information is a HIPPA violation. Inciting
the students to commit a criminal act should be a
punishable offense. The exact statute escapes me.
Very funny.
Today - would that include Mommy’s anti-depressants, an older sibling’s ADHD medication and Dad’s sleep prescription?
You may be right. In my job, I have to ask a lot of people a lot of questions. You’d be surprised at how many people out there try to tell me that they would be violating HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) if they answer my questions. Everyone is a HIPAA expert these days. According to them, EVERYTHING and ANYTHING is covered under HIPAA. Since this does involve prescription drugs, it would seem to me that this is a violation of the HIPAA laws.
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