While the whole article is interesting, this passagfe should not escape even the utterly clueless:
"The nurses estimated that an average of 5.6 percent of students in grades kindergarten through 12 receive medications on a typical school day. Common medications dispensed include over-the-counter remedies, analgesics such as aspirin and ibuprofen, stimulant medications for attentional disorders such as Ritalin and Adderall, asthma inhalers and drugs, and anti-seizure medications commonly used to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder."
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Hmmm...5/6% of all students taking a wide variety of medications....
If one would listen to the anti-medication know-nothings, one would beleive that it would be up around 50-60% or more.
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"The nurses estimated that an average of 5.6 percent of students in grades kindergarten through 12 receive medications on a typical school day.
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Hmmm...5/6% of all students taking a wide variety of medications.... If one would listen to the anti-medication know-nothings, one would
beleive
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that it would be up around 50-60% or more.
That 5.6% seems to just include meds that are dispensed by the school. Other kids get their drugs in the morning before school, or after school, or during school by the kid himself.
Also, it is 5.6% on a "typical day". So it is possible, say, that 10% of the kids are dispensed drugs on alternate days. Ie, maybe 5% on Monday, and a different 5% on Tuesday.
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"Mark ProbertJanuary 15, 2004" <[email hidden]> wrote
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"The nurses estimated that an average of 5.6 percent of students in
grades
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kindergarten through 12 receive medications on a typical school day.
Common
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Hmmm...5/6% of all students taking a wide variety of medications.... If one would listen to the anti-medication know-nothings, one would
beleive
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that it would be up around 50-60% or more.
That 5.6% seems to just include meds that are dispensed by the school. Other kids get their drugs in the morning before school, or after school,
With daily dosing becoming the norm, you do have a point.
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or during school by the kid himself.
Most schools forbid (read zero tolerance) students carrying any medications whatsoever. I doubt it happens enough to affect the findings.
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Also, it is 5.6% on a "typical day". So it is possible, say, that 10% of the kids are dispensed drugs on alternate days. Ie, maybe 5% on Monday, and a different 5% on Tuesday.
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"The nurses estimated that an average of 5.6 percent of students in
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kindergarten through 12 receive medications on a typical school day.
Common
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Hmmm...5/6% of all students taking a wide variety of medications.... If one would listen to the anti-medication know-nothings, one would
beleive
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that it would be up around 50-60% or more.
That 5.6% seems to just include meds that are dispensed by the school. Other kids get their drugs in the morning before school, or after
school,
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With daily dosing becoming the norm, you do have a point.
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or during school by the kid himself.
Most schools forbid (read zero tolerance) students carrying any
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whatsoever. I doubt it happens enough to affect the findings.
I am not so sure...when I was in high school, over 20 years ago, at least one week a month I had motrin on me, to take at lunch time. Nowadays, students cannot even have *cough drops* on their persons-- my son keeps a "stash" of cough drops in the nurse's office...
So, yes, I believe that this affects findings to some degree, especially when compared to schools years ago. Buny
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Also, it is 5.6% on a "typical day". So it is possible, say, that 10% of the kids are dispensed drugs on alternate days. Ie, maybe 5% on Monday, and a different 5% on Tuesday.
Have you no shame?
I guess you are thinking about the kids on ritalin who have to have their fix every day. But others get their meds less often. Eg, Sumbuny said that she would get motrin during one week per month.
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"Mark ProbertJanuary 15, 2004" <[email hidden]> wrote
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"The nurses estimated that an average of 5.6 percent of students in
grades
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kindergarten through 12 receive medications on a typical school day.
Common
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Hmmm...5/6% of all students taking a wide variety of medications.... If one would listen to the anti-medication know-nothings, one would
beleive
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that it would be up around 50-60% or more.
That 5.6% seems to just include meds that are dispensed by the school. Other kids get their drugs in the morning before school, or after school,
With daily dosing becoming the norm, you do have a point.
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or during school by the kid himself.
Most schools forbid (read zero tolerance) students carrying any medications whatsoever. I doubt it happens enough to affect the findings.
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Also, it is 5.6% on a "typical day". So it is possible, say, that 10% of the kids are dispensed drugs on alternate days. Ie, maybe 5% on Monday, and a different 5% on Tuesday.
Have you no shame?
You are being rhetorical, Mark, are you not? We already know that Roger the Weasel has no shame.
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Most schools forbid (read zero tolerance) students carrying any medications whatsoever. I doubt it happens enough to affect the findings.
All the more reason to homeschool. It's none of the school's goddamn business what medication kids are on and for what condition. I've hid my ADD diagnosis from instructors as much as I could simply because I didn't want to be treated differently unless I actually needed extra accommodations for ADD.
-- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
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Also, it is 5.6% on a "typical day". So it is possible, say, that 10%
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the kids are dispensed drugs on alternate days. Ie, maybe 5% on
Monday,
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and a different 5% on Tuesday.
Have you no shame?
I guess you are thinking about the kids on ritalin who have to have their fix every day. But others get their meds less often. Eg, Sumbuny said that she would get motrin during one week per month.
There are many who need to get what you so kindly call their "fix" every day...asthmatics, allergics, diabetics, etc...
There are many who need to get what you so kindly call their "fix" every day...asthmatics, allergics, diabetics, etc...
Exactly. My personal daily "fix" just happens to be aspirin, hardly something worth seeing a "dealer" to obtain or something I could do without either.
I am not so sure...when I was in high school, over 20 years ago, at least one week a month I had motrin on me, to take at lunch time. Nowadays, students cannot even have *cough drops* on their persons--my son keeps a "stash" of cough drops in the nurse's office...
My daughter gets migraines, and needs to take ibuprofen and lie down immediately when she gets the symptoms. So we had to get a permission slip from the doctor and give it and the ibuprofen to the school nurse. DD *cannot* carry it herself.
