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By law, the Americans with Dsabiliities Act requires it---but it is an idiotic law. Things like this shouild never happen, and the Congress that wrote the law, I'm sure, never intended it to happen.
Just yesterday, I spent the night at a hunting camp in a remote part of Texas. There was a wheelchair ramp up to the deck, in accord with the fedaral law that must be complied with if the owners are to be permitted to rent the camp facilities to hunters.
I once knew a member of a tiny school board in a rural area of Kansas. There was a kid in the district who was nonambulatory. The school board had to drop several extracurricular programs, in order to fit the special need of one studet into their budget.
Should a school be required to provide a full-time private nurse for a student during school hours? The child is prone to life threatening seizures. He is also blind and in a wheelchair. The cost of a private nurse for the student is $40,000 to the school system (thus the taxpayers).
Note: The school has a full time nurse on duty. The position in question is an additional nurse which would be for the student only.
I sort of go both ways on this issue
I think that the parents of the student should hire a private nurse for cases like that.
I go to a high school of 2,000+ and there is only one nurse! last year a student had a seizure in my Computer Apps class. we paged the nurse and told her what was going on and she said she had other things ahead of her. Of course it also didnt help that the Nurse's Station was 14 minutes away from my classroom. It took the nurse nearly a half hour to come to our class with a wheelchair to take the student to the nurse's station.
Plus the Nurse that we have really had no clue on how to treat the student.So yes I do believe we could have more nurses in schools because things can get pretty tied up in the Nurse's Station which could definetly hinder the response and treatment of a child having a seizure.
In the Case of my school the Nurse's Station could also be located in a more central location thus lowering the response time for anything that would need emergency treatment.Plus Nurses should be more educated on how to treat children who are prone to seizures.
The only parent of a disabled child whom I ever respected raised his disabled son at home, his wife taught the young man a thome - and he was a well-behaved and polite young man. When his mother passed, the father took on paying for a caretaker while he worked. When the father retired, he had enough money put away so that, when he died, his son went into a care facility that HE fully paid for. That is accepting responsibility for one's child.
These parents are the most awesome people I have heard of in a long, long time. This is how everyone should behave.
I know people with "seizure alert" dogs. . . sounds like a perfect solution, much less expensive than a paying a private nurse, and the dog will warn the person BEFORE the seizure, so that they can lay down and keep themselves safe.
The only parent of a disabled child whom I ever respected raised his disabled son at home, his wife taught the young man a thome - and he was a well-behaved and polite young man. When his mother passed, the father took on paying for a caretaker while he worked. When the father retired, he had enough money put away so that, when he died, his son went into a care facility that HE fully paid for. That is accepting responsibility for one's child.
These parents are the most awesome people I have heard of in a long, long time. This is how everyone should behave.
And what happens when a parent can't afford to do this?
Yep, the cost of providing specialised care for the disabled is often more expensive than the parent's can afford. Part of the problem is that the child requires to much time and effort that one of the parents needs to stay home to provide care for the child. When you are raising a family on one income, money can be quite tight, you may not have extras for stuff like specially trained seizure dogs unless the government is willing to provide that care.
Why should 40 grand go to one child when schools are severely underfunded anyway. That money could be spent on books, computers and fixing the infastructure that is crumbling around their heads instead of making accommodations for a kids who should be in a "special" school anyway . Help the kids who will one day be in the job market.. Lets teach them so they themselves don't become a burden on society. So my vote would be hell no.. And before you come back with the what if scenario's please don't.. It will serve no purpose on my opinion.
Why should 40 grand go to one child when schools are severely underfunded anyway. That money could be spent on books, computers and fixing the infastructure that is crumbling around their heads instead of making accommodations for a kids who should be in a "special" school anyway . Help the kids who will one day be in the job market.. Lets teach them so they themselves don't become a burden on society. So my vote would be hell no.. And before you come back with the what if scenario's please don't.. It will serve no purpose on my opinion.
and again, seizure alert dogs, like seeing eye dogs, are provided at no or minimal charge to the person needing them. . . .
Yep, the cost of providing specialised care for the disabled is often more expensive than the parent's can afford. Part of the problem is that the child requires to much time and effort that one of the parents needs to stay home to provide care for the child. When you are raising a family on one income, money can be quite tight, you may not have extras for stuff like specially trained seizure dogs unless the government is willing to provide that care.
So you are saying if there are 4 such kids in the same school but in different grades then the school should pay $160,000.00 a year plus benefits for nurses?
And by the way an RN makes closer to $60,000.00 a year than $40,000.00.
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