Before you read this story, you may want to make sure you secure any heavy objects nearby, so that you won't hurl them through your computer monitor. From the Philadelphia City Paper, just one more example of what happens when you make government small enough to drown in a bathtub: Children will die.
Weird. Here at our high school (and any other one I've ever heard of in Canada), students can carry their own medication, including puffers, epipens, prescription and non-prescription meds. And every adult in the building, by law, MUST know how to use an epipen. On the other hand, I have never known a school here with a full-time nurse, even when I was a little back in the 60's and 70's. Currently, ours is in once a week, mostly to distribute condoms, and to do pregnancy tests when the condoms don't work.
I've never been so scared in my life as when riding in the ambulance with my child in 'status asthmaticus' on the way to the hospital. And the bill was almost identical to yours. Would it be good for people to realize that dying of an asthma attack is to die horribly and in terror?
...hey, I have been snarling on this site on and off since 2005 when I was 22 years old. I can honestly say that this is the first post that has ever made ABG cry.
As a parent of two children with asthma, and much additional expertise in medical matters, I need to add that a fundamental problem here is that proper treatment for this condition is chronic use of a high-quality inhaled steroid, which will cost about $146.00 dollars per month. Since these drugs don't produce instant appearance of effectiveness, they are easy to not spend money on. But that's what would have kept this from happening.
Someone's ass better be on a platter by the end of tomorrow over this. And I don't mean some middle-level administrator falling on his or her sword. The top of the pyramid better be feeling some pain. It is at bare minimum criminally negligent to take nurses out of schools to "save money".
I never understood that policy for emergency medication in school. ADD meds I can understand, but what is the problem with an inhaler? Do they lock up EPI pens too?This is a fucking stupid senseless tragedy. I am beyond words for this.
...this is a perfect example of government reducing spending at the publics expense. I remember when I was a kid(I&#039;m 32) and the libraries were open 6 days a week, summer school was attended by all who were interested and schools all had <strong>NURSES</strong> and guidance counselors! Now you have &quot;charter&quot; schools, mandatory testing and demonization of science. I had a really cold wake up call 2 months ago when I realized that my niece wasn&#039;t &quot;eligible&quot; for summer school(because she didn&#039;t have a single digit IQ) and all the libraries were going to reduce their hours from 3 days a week to 2! What in the holiest of fukk sis wrong with these people?!?!
This is just another example of how bad parents have it coming when their kids die because wharrrrgarble. Those morally-inferior poors shouldn&#039;t be mooching off the taxpayers, putting their kids in school to be Indoctrinated [sic] with that Communist Facsist [sic] Sciencemacation.
...@RAW: where the fukk is the funding going? I live in Miami we have had double digit increases in population and property tax! That should mean &quot;technically&quot; services should <strong>INCREASE</strong>, but instead they bleed us dry into the pocket of corporation!!!
Weird. Here at our high school (and any other one I&#039;ve ever heard of in Canada), students can carry their own medication, including puffers, epipens, prescription and non-prescription meds. And every adult in the building, by law, MUST know how to use an epipen. On the other hand, I have never known a school here with a full-time nurse, even when I was a little back in the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s. Currently, ours is in once a week, mostly to distribute condoms, and to do pregnancy tests when the condoms don&#039;t work.
I&#039;ve never been so scared in my life as when riding in the ambulance with my child in &#039;status asthmaticus&#039; on the way to the hospital. And the bill was almost identical to yours. Would it be good for people to realize that dying of an asthma attack is to die horribly and in terror?
...hey, I have been snarling on this site on and off since 2005 when I was 22 years old. I can honestly say that this is the first post that has ever made ABG cry.
Too quick. They need to be in stocks on the sidewalk outside the school.
Actual brotherly love costs too much.
As a parent of two children with asthma, and much additional expertise in medical matters, I need to add that a fundamental problem here is that proper treatment for this condition is chronic use of a high-quality inhaled steroid, which will cost about $146.00 dollars per month. Since these drugs don&#039;t produce instant appearance of effectiveness, they are easy to not spend money on. But that&#039;s what would have kept this from happening.
Someone&#039;s ass better be on a platter by the end of tomorrow over this. And I don&#039;t mean some middle-level administrator falling on his or her sword. The top of the pyramid better be feeling some pain. It is at bare minimum criminally negligent to take nurses out of schools to &quot;save money&quot;.
Smart people are dangerous for the status quo. Smart poor people doubly so.
I never understood that policy for emergency medication in school. ADD meds I can understand, but what is the problem with an inhaler? Do they lock up EPI pens too?This is a fucking stupid senseless tragedy. I am beyond words for this.
...this is a perfect example of government reducing spending at the publics expense. I remember when I was a kid(I&#039;m 32) and the libraries were open 6 days a week, summer school was attended by all who were interested and schools all had <strong>NURSES</strong> and guidance counselors! Now you have &quot;charter&quot; schools, mandatory testing and demonization of science. I had a really cold wake up call 2 months ago when I realized that my niece wasn&#039;t &quot;eligible&quot; for summer school(because she didn&#039;t have a single digit IQ) and all the libraries were going to reduce their hours from 3 days a week to 2! What in the holiest of fukk sis wrong with these people?!?!
well at least the congressional gyms are open.
This is just another example of how bad parents have it coming when their kids die because wharrrrgarble. Those morally-inferior poors shouldn&#039;t be mooching off the taxpayers, putting their kids in school to be Indoctrinated [sic] with that Communist Facsist [sic] Sciencemacation.
...@RAW: where the fukk is the funding going? I live in Miami we have had double digit increases in population and property tax! That should mean &quot;technically&quot; services should <strong>INCREASE</strong>, but instead they bleed us dry into the pocket of corporation!!!