Yes, if it's necessary to save someone's life? But no, because of course I would never want to be in a situation where a student's life was in danger in the first place.
(Diastat, for example, is a rectal injection that can potentially save the life of a student having a grand mal seizure. Which is why a teacher should probably be qualified to give rectal injections, especially if she has students with epilepsy. But of course we all hope that no student of ours ever actually has to suffer a seizure so severe as to be life-threatening!)
(wth possessed them to ban chapstick of all things?
The explanation that I heard today was that as long as certain chapsticks are medicated, the school district has to be consistent across the board, so if cough drops are out then chapstick has to go, too. Also there is a risk of another student having an allergic reaction to a chemical in somebody's chapstick.
While the allergy thing is certainly a very real concern, I can't help but notice that the school district has yet to completely ban perfume, which is much more dangerous in terms of triggering allergic reactions. Plus it's just plain discourteous to be wearing a cloud of perfume when you're crowded in a room with thirty other students. At least chapstick serves a medicinal purpose; perfume is often purely cosmetic. I wish that the district had banned perfume instead of chapstick.
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Yes, if it's necessary to save someone's life? But no, because of course I would never want to be in a situation where a student's life was in danger in the first place.
(Diastat, for example, is a rectal injection that can potentially save the life of a student having a grand mal seizure. Which is why a teacher should probably be qualified to give rectal injections, especially if she has students with epilepsy. But of course we all hope that no student of ours ever actually has to suffer a seizure so severe as to be life-threatening!)
(wth possessed them to ban chapstick of all things?
The explanation that I heard today was that as long as certain chapsticks are medicated, the school district has to be consistent across the board, so if cough drops are out then chapstick has to go, too. Also there is a risk of another student having an allergic reaction to a chemical in somebody's chapstick.
While the allergy thing is certainly a very real concern, I can't help but notice that the school district has yet to completely ban perfume, which is much more dangerous in terms of triggering allergic reactions. Plus it's just plain discourteous to be wearing a cloud of perfume when you're crowded in a room with thirty other students. At least chapstick serves a medicinal purpose; perfume is often purely cosmetic. I wish that the district had banned perfume instead of chapstick.