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Social Issues: School and Daycare

My 13 year old daughter is diabetic since the age of 4 and participates in sports at her school (volleyball, basketball, track and cheerleading). She has been asked to remove her medical necklace and not to wear the chain around her neck.

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My daughter is in Kindergarten and needs easy snacks that will travel to school.

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I am the mother of an almost seven year old girl, diagnosed this summer. I read about the push to have school personnel trained to give glucagon. Why fight for this? It seems much better to fight for full time school nurses. I don’t want teachers to dread having my daughter in class because of her diabetes.

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Our nine year old son has had diabetes for two years. I know diabetes does not cause a learning disability, but thought I read somewhere that boys with diabetes tend to be slower in school, or words to this effect. Is this true?

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My seven year old daughter, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a month ago, doesn’t want to go to school. Right now, we just push her into the classroom and leave. We do go back at lunchtime to check her sugar and give her insulin. She does fine and has a different attitude at the end of the day. Am I doing the right thing?

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I have a diabetic student who I think is playing games with me. He eats junk food constantly. Whenever he gets in trouble for something, he acts like he is having breathing problems and says he needs another snack because he is low.

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Our nine year old daughter is going into fourth grade in our large public school district. We are requesting a certain teacher, who we personally know to be experienced, informed and knowledgeable about diabetes, but our request is not being honored. Do we have any rights to request a certain teacher?

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Are there any concerns, either medical (blood borne pathogens) or legal, which pertain to glucose testing in the classroom for a 10 year old? We desire to negotiate for “in classroom testing” for many reasons, rather than repeated trips to the nurses office. The child is on an insulin pump.

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My 12 year old son has had diabetes for two and one-half years. He started middle school.He constantly forgets homework, projects, seems upset by it but nothing we try changes it. I have found the schools to be unsympathetic. Isn’t it true that the demands of school, his diabetes routine, and the side affects of high/low blood sugars can adversely affect school performance?

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My eight year old daughter has type 1 diabetes and is in the third grade. She is very independent and knows what to do when her sugars are low, can draw insulin by herself and gives her own shots. If her dad or I cannot accompany her on a full day school trip, could the school ask her to stay home?

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