Posted on 08/19/2016 10:08:48 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
That concept is lacking in most American institutions. What we call common sense, like recognizing the difference between, "He forgot his lunch," and "His anti-seizure medication was backordered: here it is!", will get you sued for "discrimination."
Sadly,they don’t make Nuns like they used to.
Without exaggerating, I bet there are a million stories just like this. Every Catholic School had a Sister DeSalle. Mine was our sixth grade teacher, Sister Hildegarde - all 6’ of her. I swear that nuns used to take a course in knuckle whacking.
Amen.
My mom came to school ONCE, in third grade and Sister Noreen Therese told her to go home. Only other time a parent came to school was when a kid raised his hand to hit Sister Mary Robert. She slapped him, not missing a beat, lefts and rights, down the aisle, across the back, up the aisle, out the door and down three flights of stairs to the Principal’s Office.
The next day, his father brought him to school, a little ashamed and a little worse for wear. The father made him apologize to Sister Mary Robert, the class and the Principal. Then he told his son that if it ever happened again, he would kill him!
Or simply “solve problems”.
“I guess could take their cell phones away so they couldn’t call home. lol”
You haven’t been to a public school lately. It’s impossible for a parent to get in without being screened and giving a reason, and it’s harder for a kid to get out of a public school, during school hours, then it is to break out of prison. I assume this Catholic school is no different.
“Just wait until a parent is bringing medication and the child collapses. Asthma, diabetes...
Fair comment, but that’s what the school nurse is for. If the parent tries handing a cough drop to the kid these days, the kid would be looking at expulsion if he didn’t immediately down it.
A breath of fresh air....
It is ashame this rule is even needed. I can assure you that no matter what I forgot to take to school, anytime past 1st grade, my parents would never have considered bringing it to the school.
Good rule, but there should be exceptions like is the son forgets his insulin, for example
I was going to comment the same thing. All medications must go through nurses office, so if a parent brought that to the school it wouldn’t fall under this rule.
DAM you’re right!! They MUST make exceptions for some things that are needed.
So did I. And that is why I went to the institution the first time and still have a nervous tick. But I have you know that I do not torture small animals any more.
This is a Catholic school that many homeschoolers could embrace. They appear not to be raising delicate snowflakes in this school.
Yea, it’s a complacency issue. I specifically remember having Ludens in grade school, and never a problem for anyone.
Times change, but people don’t keep up and therefore send their kids to these horrific institutions that they don’t even understand (at least regarding public schools).
We had Sister Elrita; even the parents were afraid of her. But, in defense of nuns in general, for every Sister Elrita we had a dozen wonderful ones like Sister Bede and Sister Isabelle.
By high school, if I called my mother for any of these things (and by then she didn’t pay attention as to whether I had them), she would have laughed at me and hung up the phone. I had allowance and babysitting money to buy lunch if I forgot bringing food from home. My homework was my responsibility. Not done and not turned in on time meant not going to college. Same for books and equipment.
And good friends always have each others backs. I still have my high school calculator that has a smiley sticker a friend put on it after I loaned it to her because she forgot hers. We were so bad about swapping to survive at my school, a teacher did a surprise book check one day and you got an extra point if your name was the one in it.
Bkmrk
"(Ahem..)These are medically necessary meds."
Problem solved.
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