Re: School Meds

"Roger Schlafly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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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?

"Mark ProbertJanuary 16, 2004" <[email hidden]> wrote
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"Roger Schlafly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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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

Quoted message said:

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

medications

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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

"Mark ProbertJanuary 16, 2004" <[email hidden]> wrote

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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.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mark ProbertJanuary 16 said:

"Roger Schlafly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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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

Quoted message said:

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kindergarten through 12 receive medications on a typical school day.

Common

Quoted message said:

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

Quoted message said:

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.

Quoted message said:

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.

Quoted message said:

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.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

Mark ProbertJanuary 16 said:

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."

--Theodore Roosevelt

"Roger Schlafly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Mark ProbertJanuary 16, 2004" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Also, it is 5.6% on a "typical day". So it is possible, say, that 10%

of

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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...

Buny

SumBuny said:

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.

Vashti

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Mark ProbertJanuary 16 said:

"Roger Schlafly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Mark ProbertJanuary 15, 2004" <[email hidden]> wrote
> "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
> 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.

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.

Quoted message said:

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.

Quoted message said:

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.

-- David Wright

Roger seems to be "filling the void" left by the absence of Sodophile &
Sodomite John "Sodomy" Bain.

SumBuny said:

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.