Home Featured Content Article Archive Directors' Choice Awards About Us Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Teacher Quicksource Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Blog State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 7/31/2005 2:39:00 PM Author: Terri Subject: school nurses Most schools in the US have a school nurse of some sort. If a student has severe medical disabilities we can usually expect the school board to provide an aide for that child. But, you are dreaming if you think a teacher who has the job of educating 20 to 30 children who all have various levels of academic skills, also has the time to cater individually to YOUR child. It doesnt happen. Does that mean she doesnt care? No, it means she doesnt have the time, the helpers, the support, and the energy to regularly provide one on one specialty services, including health services! Why should see? She went to college to learn to teach subjects, and the parents have decided they would rather she take on all of their roles too so they dont have to deal with it! Now, they demand that she provide for their development of values associated with community service, their helath needs, their emotional neediness, and their academic standards. It is too much for one person to do and when a parent demands extra care for a child, even at the expense of ruining the opportunites for the other 29 students, a teacher will most likely resent it. And that resentment will be expressed, but you wont be there to see it! So, if you want specialized care, extra individualized attention, medical care, and academic help for your child, I suggest you get a grip on reality and either offer to volunteer at the school each week, or send your child to a private school where you must pay for all those time consuming extras. Name: Email: Subject

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