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Students not allowed to use chapstick
Topic Started: Sep 11 2014, 11:16 AM (242 Views)
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CRAIGSVILLE -- An 11-year-old Stuarts Draft Elementary School student has collected petition signatures and officially asked the county school board to allow elementary students to use Chapstick.

Stuarts Draft fifth-grader Grace Karaffa appeared before the school board Thursday night, saying she had requested the substance while on the playground after suffering chapped lips.

"I was told I couldn't use it. Then later that day they (lips) started to bleed so I asked for Chapstick again and I was told that it was against the school policy for elementary kids to have Chapstick,'' Grace said.

Grace asked the school board to change its policy. "Chapstick allows the human body to heal the lips themselves and protects them in any weather from drying out,'' she said. She concluded her speech by saying, "Please school board, allow us to have Chapstick."

The petition contained 236 signatures. Those signatures included Stuarts Draft students and members of Grace's Girl Scout troop who are Augusta County students, said her father, Beverley Manor District Supervisor David Karaffa.

George Earhart, the assistant superintendent for administration with the Augusta County Schools, said Chapstick is considered an over-the-counter medication by the school board. The board has a policy regarding such medicines. He said Chapstick could be allowed if a physician asked for a student to use it, and it was administered by a school nurse.

Earhart said one of the reasons for the policy is concerns about elementary students sharing medications. He said the student's request was taken under advisement by the school board. The school administration will communicate with the Karaffa family and could also report back to the school board.

http://www.dailyprogress.com/newsvirginian/student-s-chapped-lips-lead-to-policy-change-request/article_53d70a02-353f-11e4-877f-0017a43b2370.html

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I say fight absurdity with absurdity. Get all 680 students to have a doctors permission to use Chapstick. That requires the school to store all 680 tubes, individually labled to prevent cross-contamination, and have all 680 students line up so the school nurse can apply it for them. That should make the point well enough.
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OP: Why did you think that was worth posting? :zzzz
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I thought it was interesting. Especially liked the response from Armstrong. But then, that would require a whole new bureaucracy hired with all the concurrent costs to the tax payer. Department of Epidermal Medications Identification, Storage and Distribution.

Deputy, Deputy Director, administrative assistants, accounting staff, building storage units maintenance staff, distribution director................
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Some school systems to seem to go overboard. Have you read about the military dad who showed up at his daughter's school to see her? He wasn't allowed to enter the school because he was in his military uniform.
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Common sense has just gone out the window. That is so sad about the Dad in uniform.

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Deputy, Deputy Director, administrative assistants, accounting staff, building storage units maintenance staff, distribution director................


So so true!
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It has to do more with liability than common sense. It's also why parks and playgrounds no longer have that spinning thing you sit on, why the slides and stuff are made out of plastic instead of metal. Similarly, it's easier to just make a ban on peanuts for everybody than it is to try to monitor who can and cannot eat them.

There are too many lawsuits in this country and that changes things in many ways.
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From October through May I can't live without 24 hr. access to ChapStick! Especially with these arctic winters we seem to be having in Central New York lately.

(I honestly never thought of it as medicine.)
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(I honestly never thought of it as medicine.)


I don't know anyone that does, has anyone o d ed on chapstick?
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After reading #6's post and thinking about this a bit I can understand why the school system won't allow the kids to carry their own chapsticks. Kids have always to some degree, but these days are even more prone to do some especially evil things to each other. All it would take is one instance of a kid with a chapstick getting it rammed down his throat by one or a group of the other little demons, and choking to death. Or even more likely, a kid being forced to eat a big glob of chapstick by a bully.

I hate to say it but too many children simply can't be trusted to always act like they've got good sense. Look at all the heinous things they see on TV and the internet daily. We didn't have that influence back in the day, and I daresay in general we were far less militant and devious than kids today.
Edited by Tybee, Sep 14 2014, 07:30 AM.
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Replace chapstick with crayons.
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