budget?

i encourage everybody to read this link:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/04/04/school.nurse.shortage.parenting/index.html?hpt=Sbin

this article really hit home with me. the other day one of my students was tripped (another story in and of itself) as he was leaving gym and walking up the stairs back to our hallway. he ended up busting up his chin and biting his tongue. it was disgusting. although the student was really proud of it...it hink? he kept sticking out his tongue and showing it to everybody. i had to will myself not to vom.

well, the nurse wasn't at our school that day. we have a nurse, but she is not at our school everyday. i'm not really sure what days she's out our school actually. but we had to call my student's mom and she had to call somebody to come pick him up because his mouth wouldn't stop bleeding. i mean really, this student had to sit in the hallway and wait to be picked up while he was bleeding a lot. he had to keep going to the bathroom to spit out all the blood! sicknasty.

aside from my experiences, it really is silly that there isn't a nurse all the time at a school. there are tons of kids at schools! tons of opportunities to get hurt! tons of opportunities for kids to be vom-ing and you don't want them in your class! (this has happened to me before).

anyways. just something to think about as our budget crisis grows.