Schools struggle to accommodate kids with diabetes
November 3rd, 2009From USA Today:
As the number of school-age children with diabetes rises, experts say, tight budgets are forcing an increasing number of schools to do without full-time nurses. That can leave students without the medical support they need to maintain blood sugars at safe levels at school, and prompt parents to keep fragile kids out of class.
Parents say school officials are urging them to reroute their kids away from their home schools in search of nursing support. Ed Kraus, associate professor at Chicago Kent Law School, says it is discriminatory to reroute a child to another school, away from friends and siblings, because of a health condition.
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