Government Schools

I am not a big fan of anything that has the word government in it. It basically means that my tax money is going to support some lazy person that is unwilling to do his job correctly. And the idea that a loving parent would send his or her child to a government school is beyond me.

And I am not surprised when I hear stories like the one about a 13 year old girl that went to school on crutches after having her kneecap dislocated. It seems the school nurse got on a power trip and took away her crutches. She told the little girl that she had to have a note from the doctor in order to have the crutches. The girls mother phoned the hospital to have a doctor fax a note to the school but the school fax machine wasn’t working, so McKee never received the note.
The little girl didn’t get to the elevator and was forced to walk up and down the stairs until about 1:30 p.m., when she couldn’t take the pain anymore.

Elalem said her daughter called her, saying, “I can’t walk. Come and get me.”
On the way home, Amber said, “You know, the nurse took my crutches this morning and made me walk all day,” Elalem recalled.

“I got home, took her immobilizer off, and her kneecap was on the side of her leg,” Elalem said.
Amber tried physical therapy for a few days but needed knee surgery, her mother said. She had a reaction to the pain medication and was admitted to the hospital for three days. She now is taking medication and watching her diet because she has developed symptoms of an ulcer.

There is no district policy requiring a doctor’s note for crutches, but the district’s supervisor of school health has issued an e-mail to principals stating students must produce a doctor’s note to use crutches or a wheelchair.
Guess it??s a good thing she was not in a wheelchair, she??d had to crawl around the school for the rest of the day.