boozer60

I have worked as a high school nurse for 25 years. I have seen students getting worse about calling their parents first before coming to see me. Cell phones have made doing our job a lot more difficult in controlling who goes home or not. I have noticed that if I do not send them home, they either call their parent on their own or the teacher will let them call. Very frustrating. Administration doesn't discipline when this happens, they always say there is nothing they can do about it. I also hate it when the teacher tells the student that they need to go home, but when I assess the student, there is no need for them to go home. The student is then insistent about going home because the teacher told them they needed to. Uggghhh!