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School and Daycare

Sometimes my daughter’s school bus ride can take more than 30 minutes, and I am concerned because she typically has her lows in the afternoon. Do we have the right to ask the school to change the bus route or should we just make other arrangements?

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We have a fourth grade student with diabetes whose mother says that school work can affect his diabetes by causing stress, and he can’t concentrate on homework for more than 15 minutes at a time. She state that if he is placed in detention hall, he needs to be able to walk around so that he can exercise to control his diabetes. I must admit I was unaware how much diabetes can affect school work.

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My eight year old, who is on the pump, can figure out his own bolus and then boluses himself once he knows what the amount is. I have asked the school to let him bolus himself after he is done eating his snack. The nurse is refusing to do so. How much say do parents have on their child’s care at school?

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My child is having high blood glucose levels due to lack of exercise in school. Recess time has been reduced and frequently substituted with board games or seat work. Do you have any recommendations as to the amount, frequency, and type of exercise an eight year old should have during a school day?

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My son recently started pump therapy. Although we have always counted carbs from the beginning (Before the pump we simply used carb exchanges.), now we are using grams of carbohydrate, and I seem to be having problems with the school cafeteria providing the carb counts. Can the school place food on their menus with no nutritional information available? Is there anything I can do to require the school to provide this information ahead of time so that he can eat what the other kids are eating?

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My four year old niece (who has type 1 diabetes) has a babysitter who resides in another town, just over her school district’s town line, and the school has told my sister that they will no longer drop my niece off at this house. Is there anything in the law that protects my niece?

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Could my son’s lack of focus on tasks that he is not interested in be his diabetes? Is he a candidate for ADD testing?

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My daughter’s school has been wonderful about everything to do with her care except field trips. Her father, my mother or I have to go on every required field trip and pay our own expenses. If we had a 504 plan on file, would that require the school to provide someone on the overnight field trip to give my daughter her insulin?

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Do I have any recourse with an unreasonable parent? What liability do I have in letting a child, known to have diabetes, be in school without proper medical intervention when needed?

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The first two physicians my son saw told me to keep my son home if his sugar is over 350 mg/dl [19.4 mmol/L], but the third says send him to school no matter how high it is or to bring him in. Are the first two doctors right or is this one? At what glucose level should I not send my son to school? Should I send him no matter what?

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