I thought school nurses needed parental authorization to administer anything to our children? Like an aspirin, or even a doctor authorized medication. What about COVID testing?
Everything has to have parental signatures on release forms in order to do anything. Well, except for bringing your daughter to Planned Parenthood. Handing out contraceptives. Keeping your child’s decision to act out on their gender dysphoria a secret from you (but why complain over such SMALLLLLL things, eh?).
But here’s a new SMALLLLLL item to be wondering about.
Is your child’s school going to give your child a COVID test without asking?
I’m watching a fairly quick clip from the 12/2 News Nine at 6 pm (starting about the 11-minute mark)
Sidenote: sometimes bloggers start posts, get distracted, and forget about posts they’ve started or actually finished, but never published. This is one.
It happens. So, instead of wasting it, I’m putting it up now. H/T: Steve the ‘Grok Editor for reminding us to go clean up our respective ‘Grok Draft rooms (heh!).
It’s about school nurses wanting to test kids at school. They want to use the Abbott BinaxNOW card tests (rapid testing).
The WMUR line was that they want to keep “kids in school and not send them home” on the idea of “is it a cold? Is it the regular flu? Or COVID?”
Look, I get it – kids get sick. My granddaughters are CONSTANTLY suffering from one runny nose to coughing to tummy hurts too, you get the idea. The tolerance at their schools is now about nill for this. They now are on a daily allergy med regime because the school was sending them home so often.
WMUR’s report did not bring up parental notification or opt-in for such testing. Did that school nurse discussion even bring that important bit up?
Yes, I am getting that cynical because I keep seeing the “village” mentality, coupled with the Government Educational Industrial Complex becoming increasingly more and more intolerant with parents if they DARE to do more or less than what Administrators/teachers want.
Who gets to determine yes or no to this? Your School Board members with a vote, for starters. Even further up the political food chain, they still get a say. But as we all know with bureaucracies, sometimes what is decided at higher levels is totally disregarded where the rubber hits the road.
So…Why didn’t WMUR even ask about this?
