Educator overreaction and school ban inanity drama continues

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Try harder: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem

It could be argued that the "are you stupid?" bit is ad hominem. However, that is no excuse to ignore the rest of visagrunt's argument.

I have some doubts about the USA helthcare system myself. I have small points of data, like the knowledge that the most sought after residencies happen to be the most profitable ones, or anecdotal evidence from a friend of my father who used to work in the USA and talked about how he was much more profit-driven while he was there than when he began working here, where medics make a lot less (which is interesting, because the cause wouldn't be something being wrong with the individual person, but with the environment) and if medicine is a very profitable career then it would make sense that people looking for profit would choose this one. I can't quantify just how many people are in medicine there mainly for profit (most of them? Half of them? No idea, but I can say they exist, and that in the USA there is probably a higher percentage.

I can see both sides to this. If a child has that severe a reaction to something as common as Axe body spray then who is to say he won't have a reaction to one of a hundred other things that people wear or that the housekeeping staff uses to clean? Would they ban each and every new item because one kid had a reaction to it? While it's easy to say "Don't wear Axe to school" it's probably not just Axe. It's probably a chemical in Axe that is found in other products, unless he is allergic to only that exact combination of chemicals found in that exact brand and scent, which isn't that likely.

If I were the mother of a kid who had allergies so bad that he would have to be taken to the hospital by ambulance because of somebody else's body spray, I wouldn't really want to send him back to that or any public school or place because there is really no way to enforce the rule and by the time it's found out that someone has broken it, it could be too late for the kid. If my child was that allergic to something as common as Axe, which unfortunately is everywhere right now, I would keep him home where I would be sure he wouldn't be exposed to it. That also includes places like the mall, the movies, stores, any place where guys under 25 are likely to be. I would do that for my own kids safety.

I had very severe allergies when I was a child, and I was allergic to many common things, both cleaning, grooming and food items but nobody ever thought of asking the school to ban those items, even though I would get to where I couldn't breath and have to get my mother to come and get me and take me to the hospital because of it. I was just told not to go around it, if it was some sort of scent or spray can, and not to eat the many foods that I was allergic too. Also not to go outside during recess because of the pollen. I could have encountered those things anywhere, not just at the school. I think banning it is over the top.

I don't know the answer for this. I know that I had shots that helped mine and I outgrew them by the time I was 12 or so, but this kid may not outgrow his or the shots or meds may not help him. Maybe keep some emergency meds on hand, which is probably a good idea because chances are he's going to encounter it again and he needs to have the tools to help save his life when it happens - the same way people allergic to bees carry those epi pens. Peanut allergies are very common now and will kill you pretty fast, I hear and from a tiny amount or even the dust of them in the air, yet peanuts aren't banned in schools. I know of quite a few kids at the high school with a peanut allergy. They just don't eat peanuts.

No matter what the school decided to do, I would still choose to keep my kid home for his own safety because I'd be afraid it's more than just Axe, and there is no way to really enforce that. I'd be finding a new allergist and getting some tests and new treatments done to see what we could o.

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