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I work in a high school. I have 4 diabetic students this year (this is down from my high of 12 diabetic students when I first started here). One student is special needs. He just started giving his own insulin at the beginning of this school year. He primes, dials up the correct dose on his pen and I double check it before he self administers. I used to have him double check me when I used to give him his insulin. The rest of my kiddos are independent. They check in with me, but I don't do anything hands on with them at all.

Some kids do come to my office to "chill" for a bit, but I have never had a truly agitated student get sent to my office. We have resource rooms for those students and I think they deescalate in there.

My kiddos have insulin pens, I listen for the "clicks" if that makes sense. I want them to know I trust them, and I am allowing them independence. I also make sure they say back to me how much insulin they are getting.

There are kids that I would absolutely not trust as far as I could throw them, but thankfully my T1D's here aren't one of them.

Usually they bring me the kids and I just let them sit there quietly and then ask them what's wrong. 9/10 they tell me and we chat a bit, then the admin takes them away.

For the LS kids, they have their own room to calm down.