Teenager with seizures kept from school?

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Specializes in ER.

I am in the process of finding a renter for a home I own. It's almost similar to triaging patients in the ER. You have to sift through a lot of bogus stories, and plate after plate heaped with B.S.. You hear tales of woe and desperation.

Today I showed the place To a single mother of 3 teenage boys. She is living in a town over a 1/2 hour away and is trying to find a house in my town where she has already put them in school.

She generally seems like a solid prospect, but when I asked her about why she chose to put her boys here, she told me that her oldest son had a seizure at school and she was told by the school that it is too great a liability risk for the school to allow him to continue attending.

I'm smelling a rat with this story. Any feedback from school nurses would be welcome.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

Unlikely even in a private school. In a public school - 99.99% not factual. Break out the rat trap.

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Unlikely as that is discrimination based on a disability.

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Specializes in School nursing.
Unlikely even in a private school. In a public school - 99.99% not factual. Break out the rat trap.

Same. A public school cannot exclude this student by law.

And while perhaps a private school technically can, I highly doubt they would because I could see a lawsuit happen. Even if it went in the private school's favor, I can't imagine they would welcome the bad press that would go along with it. Not to mention your post alludes to a single seizure, not a seizure disorder.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

indeed - and such an odd story to tell. Having assisted my parents with their rental unit for many years and hearing the lines my gut tells me that that line also serves as a back story for when the rent is due and can't be coughed up. Ryan will have been in the hospital and Mom will have been unable to have worked and won't have any money for rent. But note that the manicure was done that month and that the kids smartphones may have been upgraded and is that a new purse? (not saying that these couldn't have been gifts... but i've been down this road all to often... it's usually not gifts)

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Specializes in kids.

I call BS!!

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Specializes in ER.

I did a mini background check on one of her sons. Multiple encounters with the court system plus a restraining order of protection filed against him. I think I'll go with the family with the 2 pre-schoolers...

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Specializes in Med-surg, school nursing..
I did a mini background check on one of her sons. Multiple encounters with the court system plus a restraining order of protection filed against him. I think I'll go with the family with the 2 pre-schoolers...

I was going to say it was likely they weren't allowed in the schools they were attending anymore and HAD to switch.

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Specializes in Pedi.
I was going to say it was likely they weren't allowed in the schools they were attending anymore and HAD to switch.

And seizures were NOT the reason why. A student cannot be excluded from school because of a medical condition. The school would either need to provide appropriate services for him or pay to send him out of district. Kids who are trached on chronic vents go to school. I have had several patients on around the clock inotropes waiting for heart transplants who still go to school. When I was in high school, there was a girl a few years older than me who was waiting for a heart transplant and was on oxygen at school. After I was diagnosed with my brain tumor my senor year of high school, I had seizures every day at school. I don't think I was ever absent after diagnosis either.

I did once have crazy parents of a patient (who had a single syncopal episode and his entire work-up was negative) try to refuse discharge and claimed that the school said it would be a liability for him to return but there was no way that was true.

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Specializes in retired LTC.
I did a mini background check on one of her sons. Multiple encounters with the court system plus a restraining order of protection filed against him. I think I'll go with the family with the 2 pre-schoolers...

What I was thinking too!

Wonder how old that "teen"ager is.

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Specializes in ER.
What I was thinking too!

Wonder how old that "teen"ager is.

She said she had a 15, 18, and 19 year old. I found her on Facebook, and found her sons on her friend list, then looked them up on the state court website.

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Specializes in School Nurse.
She said she had a 15, 18, and 19 year old. I found her on Facebook, and found her sons on her friend list, then looked them up on the state court website.

Awww... the powers of social media.:up:

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