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Once again, people put politics where they don't belong. Did this guy say he is a democrat? No? Then why is OP making that assumption?
FFS, people asking why the OP made the assumption the father was a democrat are being just as dumb as the OP when the answer to their own question is as obvious as the nose on their face - or the picture in the article. As if the OP is going to admit how he came to the conclusion the father is a democrat.
Ths school could have called the parents and 9 11. If the child had fallen and broken an arm, would the school have contacted the parent and waited for the parent to act? What if the parent was not able to be contacted?
The school should be responsible for the child safety until the parent or EMS arrives; not up until the parent is contacted.
The school would be sued if parents thought the child was at school but the school admitted them into some hospital.
Maybe it's time schools start recording conversations between staff and parents? Would be interesting to know EXACTLY what each side had to say, other than the father exonerating himself of any negligence and putting it on the school. Maybe it's possible that the school didn't call 911 because that would probably brought in child care services, which could have resulted in the child being removed from the home due to parental neglect - which the father was - neglectful. The school should have called both and she might be alive and in the custody of child care services rather than a father who knew his child was having an asthma attack and knew the nebulizer was in the home and he couldn't be bothered to bring it to her. Child services will remove a child from a home for a lot less that falls under "neglect".
Daddy will settle his lawsuit and life will go on for him. He'll probably blow his settlement within 2 months.
Yup intesting how almost the articles linked and many of the posters here completely exonerating the parents of any wrong doing. Hmmmmmm what could be the reason....
FFS, people asking why the OP made the assumption the father was a democrat are being just as dumb as the OP when the answer to their own question is as obvious as the nose on their face - or the picture in the article. As if the OP is going to admit how he came to the conclusion the father is a democrat.
The father's actions are what gave it away, the whole assumption that he doesn't need to take any responsibility for his own child, the helplessness, dependency.
We have 4,000 deaths annually because of asthma and most of them are preventable. A lot of them because people cant afford the medicine and try to make it stretch. The albuterol inhalers which were generic and cost about $8 a couple of years ago got a new patent when the cfc was taken out. The cheapest inhaler now is $45 in the US. The same inhaler is about $8 or less everywhere else in the world. Dulera the newest wonder drug is over $200 for a one months supply. Other asthma medicines have gotten more costly over the years. You would hope in a case like this the child would be on Medicaid or Insurance without high co-payments and deductible. Parents shouldn't have to choose between paying bills and refilling a needed prescription.
By the way I don't think the parents are going to be suing anyone once some time passes
Yes let's us all run off on the keyboard with little fact standing in the way of a good rant...
There is a long standing doctrine governing the relationship between students and those in their care which is referred to as en loco parentis, Latin for "in place of a parent," which is why the Philadelphia school system has this rule in place:
According to District rules, the principal or a designated person “must act promptly to provide immediate care” once they have received “notification of an ill or injured person.”
According to Philadelphia City Paper a weekly newspaper which does a fine job of reporting on Philadelphia, the child became sick early in the day the call to the Mr. Burch was made late in the school day. Even the girl was told that “school was almost out, and she’d get out of school and go straight home,” Mr. Burch who also suffers from severe asthma was never apprised of the seriousness of his daughter's condition but up on seeing her at 3:15 immediately tried treating her at home before rushing her to the ER. So much for the lazy unconcerned parent. The "lazy" uncaring girlfriend was on her way home with two younger children.
So you are saying that the school let her suffer for hours before calling Mr Burch??
Poor, poor Mr Burch. He said, she said. Yeah, she was told by the father that he would take care of it when she got home - and someone from the school drove her home.
So far the only one talking is the negligent parent and I guess if he says it's true, then it must be true.
FFS, people asking why the OP made the assumption the father was a democrat are being just as dumb as the OP when the answer to their own question is as obvious as the nose on their face - or the picture in the article. As if the OP is going to admit how he came to the conclusion the father is a democrat.
Then why don't you explain? How is it so obvious he is a democrat?
Why should lazy parents who couldn't be bothered with a very sick, dying child reap big financial rewards for her death? Any halfway decent parent would have run to the school and would have shown concern for the girl. Letting your own child suffer and die should not win you some big jackpot prize.
Then why don't you explain? How is it so obvious he is a democrat?
I'm going to assume that you are playing stupid. Please, carry on.
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what could be the reason....
