I learned something new this week!
I learned that not only is it a task to live with diabetes, but it's also a task to be safe while at school, and have diabetes. About 200,000 kids in the Unted States have diabetes.
There are schools across the country that have excellent plans in place to provide care that children with diabetes need to thrive at school. However, not all schools are easing the way for children with diabetes.
In California an appeals court recently ruled that state laws prohibit school staff, that are not nurses, from volunteering to help children with diabetes by administering insulin. That means that with only one scool nurse for every 2,700 students in the state, many kids with diabetes will not get insulinwhen they need it- and their health an academic progress will suffer as a result.
After I found this out, it made me question what the policy is for my school, and the schools around me.
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