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NAZZ
Barsoom
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 29/09/2007 : 00:41:21
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An 11-year-old boy has been barred from a school in northern England because teachers cannot cope with his severe allergy to nuts.
George Hall-Lambert was sent home just four days after starting his first term at his new school when teachers learned he suffered severe allergic reactions to nuts.
His mother, Judith Hall-Lambert, said she was appalled by Howden School and Community College's decision to brand her son a health and safety hazard.
"It is a shambles," she told The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"The school should be able to deal with children like George.
"He is being discriminated against because he has a nut allergy.
"He is a bright kid and this could really set back his education."
George, who was diagnosed with the allergy when he was 18 months old, carries an emergency adrenaline injection, known as an EpiPen, with him at all times.
He also wears a medical tag to alert people to his condition.
His school has offered to accept him back if he has his lessons in a so-called "inclusion unit", which is separate from mainstream classes and designed for children with behavioural or learning difficulties.
The school's head teacher Andrew Williams said Howden was working with George's parents, health workers and the local council to find "an acceptable solution to this situation as soon as possible."
Makes you wonder how other schools cope with this type of allergy
Surely they could have some teachers trained to use the epi-pen should an emergency occur.As for this about putting him in an "inclusion unit",would not this still have the need for trained teachers to apply the pen?
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/09/2007 : 00:55:56
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This is absurd ... are they going to label the child as having a behavioural difficulty because the teachers cannot behave like decent human beings?
Come to think of it .... my grandson's school has dealt with it. They have a boy who could go into anaphalectic shock just from 'smelling peanuts' according to my grandson. All the parents have been asked to refrain from sending their children to school with consumables containing nuts.
Personally I think it is a good lesson to teach the children as well ... the need to consider the needs of others. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
Edited by - Miriam Binder on 29/09/2007 01:01:11 |
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Daveb
Earthsea
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Posted - 29/09/2007 : 08:34:34
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The school is worried because of the Health & Safety police and fear of a law suit should something terrible happen.
You can see the headlines now:-
Parents blame school for....
I bellieve the school has said it need to carry out a risk assessment which in this day and age is the norm.
Once that has been done common sense needs to come in from cold.
As has been said everyone cooperate and train several staff.
He must have been to school up to now, what did they do?
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Edited by - Daveb on 29/09/2007 08:35:53 |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/09/2007 : 09:54:28
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Daveb
Earthsea
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Posted - 29/09/2007 : 15:48:29
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| Exactly but how did they manage? |
We're all doomed!
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Posted - 29/09/2007 : 16:34:46
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Makes you wonder how other schools cope with this type of allergy
In my child school children are not allowed to have any peanuts or any food containing peanuts in their pack-lunch, and I don't think is the solution either.
No chocolate either, why not? |
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FUBAR
Barsoom
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Posted - 29/09/2007 : 18:26:34
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Probably swapping the chocolate for some snout......... |
I came into the world with nothing and still have most of it left.. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/09/2007 : 18:33:27
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Originally posted by Daveb
Exactly but how did they manage?
I think the issue may well be that supervision is lower at secondary ... there are set ratios for given age groups. It is aobut the only change that I can think of as having any relevance to the matter.
But if that is the case the question that needs to be asked is why was all this not considered when the boy's details were forwarded to the school for enrolment the coming school year? Surely all those issues should be dealt with before children start at a school and not at the expense of their time in class. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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School boy health and safety hazard