We have procedures in our school where if someone faints, they are collected by the office staff in a wheel chair.
Now, I'm not saying that the teacher hasn't done the wrong thing, but as it was a fill-in teacher it's possible that this teacher was not made aware of medical issues. It often happens in a school where it's only the teachers regularly in contact with a particular student that get informed of the problems and everyone else can end up finding themselves highly embarrassed by the fact that they simply aren't aware of things that they really should be.
Also, the teacher has a duty of care to the whole class and can't just leave the entire class to take one student to sick bay. Sending a student to get help would have been a better approach.
I think that it's still worth talking to the school about the issue, though.
BW
Last edited by butterfly_warrior; March 3rd, 2010 at 03:09 PM.
I agree with BW- if it was a fill in teacher and they were not aware of the situation then they dont know what they don' know- does the school have an action plan for your daughter? A medical condition which involves feinting and seizures should have an action plan, that should be passed on to a fill in teacher.
As for sending a child to take her to the office- they were making the best of a situation, obviously it might have made sense to send someone to the office to get help. Unfortunatley the probably couldnt have taken the child themself as they have duty of care to all the students, and there for can not leave an entire class un attended.
When you speak to your principal I would be asking for some sort of plan to be drawn up, so that if this happens again, they can get her the proper assistance straight away, then everyone who teaches your daughter should have a copy of the plan so they know what to do.
I was a fainter & was always taken to the office by a teacher, even if it meant another student had to run to the office to get someone while I sat with my teacher. Regardless of it being a fill in & not knowing your DD's history, I think she should have gone to check that DD was ok & able to get to the office on her own (even if it was with a friend).
Ali you raised a very good point, I really don't think there is an action plan in place that I know of, there is definately one for her asthma so I will mention that, thanks.
Sometimes they don't actually notice ... try these for size:
Summer camp, REALLY hot weather on the beach. Burning hot sand. Teachers didn't insist the smaller kids wore shoes My offspring has a very high pain threshold, they let her on the sand, of course she didn't feel walking on 50 degree sand so when she got home the ENTIRE soles of her feet were just one massive blister and came off completely, which ranks as one of the grossest things I've ever seen. Never even got an apology out of the school for that one, they couldn't explain why she was missed.
More recently the offspring got a rope burn at school. Said she told the teacher, but she can't tell when people are paying her attention so turned out she just mumbled to the back of a teacher's head and never got a response. Told me she told the teacher at school so silly me assumed she'd had the graze washed at least - never assume. Turned into the biggest and most gruesome infection the local doc had ever seen (which made it easy to bump someone aside in a completely booked medical center to get an appt), and it took 2 courses of antibiotics to clear up. This graze went from something that didn't break the skin to a massive, oozing, deep chunk of missing leg. Child kept whacking her leg on things in the meantime without noticing (there's that high pain threshold again) so every day she came home with blood soaked socks and a fresh bandage ...
I'm actually impressed I only have those two incidents. Every other time she's done something at school it has been more obvious and they've been really good. Teachers seem to be better at spotting things if there's copious quantities of blood and puke involved than more subtle things.
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My offspring has a very high pain threshold, they let her on the sand, of course she didn't feel walking on 50 degree sand so when she got home the ENTIRE soles of her feet were just one massive blister and came off completely, which ranks as one of the grossest things I've ever seen. Never even got an apology out of the school for that one, they couldn't explain why she was missed.
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