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Originally Posted by KSig RC
This is totally understandable, but the school's right to protect itself from potential liability has limits too, which is what Kevin is getting at.
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Originally Posted by AGDee
The ibuprofen is a real sticking point with me because so many girls have to have it or have to miss school a couple days a month. It's kind of ridiculous to have to miss school because you're not allowed to take Ibuprofen.
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You do what every school system I know does. The school nurse or someone else in the office has the ibuprofen, and you have a note from your doctor authorizing the school nurse (or whoever) to give it to your child as directed by the doctor.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
A plastic bag, a rope, a pencil or 1 1/2 inches of water can also kill you, but they probably won't -- just like ibuprofen.
I can see other prescription drugs warranting this treatment. Not ibuprofen though. In your hypo, I doubt a teenager with a severe ibuprofen allergy is going to accept an anti-inflammatory or any kind of pain med from someone without knowing what it is as there's almost no way they'd not be aware of their allergy.
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I'm with Lane on this one. I've seen my fair share of legal threats and actions against schools to completely understand why the school might draw the line where they did.
And the bolded part would be funny if it weren't sadly untrue.
As far as what the school actually did -- I would just caution anyone to be leery of accepting a news story's account at face value. There's almost always more to the story.