DD fainted in toilet - teacher irresponsible?

[{sarah}]

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).

[diannescruffy]

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.

Regards,
Dianne

[deletedit]

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.

[Violet Star]

Sometimes they don't actually notice
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.

In most cases, schools now send notes home when ANY first aid is applied. And a record is kept. For any other issues, parents or other contacts are called to come and collect the child, ambulances etc are called if needed straight away. If children do not say anything and you cant see anything or notice any change, its makes it very hard to follow up.

Back to the original posters thread.. Dianne, I hope your daughter is feeling better now. Unfortunately at some schools, relief teachers are called at the last minute and are not given much information at all. This does need to be raised with your principal and they need to make sure the relief teachers DO have this information. Ive seen some really dodgy information packs for relivers. Some have lists of pages and pages of information, which is usually not useful as you might not know the kids names. Photos of kids with first names and what you need to know is a much better way.

The teacher does have duty of care for the whole class. The relief should have either moved the whole class to go to your daughter. Send another runner to the office to get someone from there.

An action plan should be filled in.The school should have a copy of it. Ask to speak to the person who is in charge of first aid. It would be especially important for school excursions eg: swimming. Schools allocate staff to watch children with particular needs even though lessons are run by the swimmin instructors.