Sunscreen school policy I need advice I'm pissed | |
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SeaCharger User ID: 57922969 United States 06/09/2015 03:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in WA State as well. If you're submitting yourself and your son to the school, you're subjecting yourself to all the school policies whether you like them or not. I'm a big fan of home education. If your child is this young and you're already having troubles with the rules, just consider all the other rules he'll be forced to follow as the years go on. This isn't much help, I'm sorry, but if they've laid it out for you, there's not much you can do. SeaCharger |
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Lilac.Nights (OP) User ID: 33914227 United States 06/09/2015 03:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in WA State as well. If you're submitting yourself and your son to the school, you're subjecting yourself to all the school policies whether you like them or not. Quoting: SeaCharger I'm a big fan of home education. If your child is this young and you're already having troubles with the rules, just consider all the other rules he'll be forced to follow as the years go on. This isn't much help, I'm sorry, but if they've laid it out for you, there's not much you can do. I know I ran away from a communist country to the land of the free... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 67534740 United States 06/09/2015 03:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On the vitamin D: mushrooms manufacture and store it. They can be used as little vitamin D powerhouses if you expose them to sunlight gills up. Check online for info. As per the school: doctors note and check your rights on discrimination for health reasons where you live. Private or not there are certain rules they have to abide. Good luck :) |
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beeches User ID: 28167778 United States 06/09/2015 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | tell them they are restraining your son's freedom of movement and segregating him against your express wishes. That might get their attention. Doctor's note, maybe too. Tell them they will be directly responsible to ANY damage to him for lack of Vitamin D. you are not going to back down. if you do, they will never take you or another parent seriously again. Best of luck to you. Schools are way too involved in matters that do not concern them. Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face – Thomas Sowell |
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Lilac.Nights (OP) User ID: 33914227 United States 06/09/2015 03:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I will, for sure...but, I've signed a contract with them until September...the whole summer is ahead of us, any ideas? Unless this policy was made aware to you in advance, id be asking for refund and sue for disruption of their education. Good point I was thinking about that exact thing. We were not warned about that beforehand. They just slapped it in our faces a few days ago. |
Lilac.Nights (OP) User ID: 33914227 United States 06/09/2015 03:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On the vitamin D: mushrooms manufacture and store it. They can be used as little vitamin D powerhouses if you expose them to sunlight gills up. Check online for info. As per the school: doctors note and check your rights on discrimination for health reasons where you live. Private or not there are certain rules they have to abide. Good luck :) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67534740 I'll try to get a note from his doctor. I love and use mushrooms. My son is very picky eater, he would never eat a mushroom. I buy dry wild mushrooms of all varieties I could find and with my Vitamix blender I make a flour and use in everything I cook. Last Edited by Lilac.Nights on 06/09/2015 03:59 PM |
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Lilac.Nights (OP) User ID: 33914227 United States 06/09/2015 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | tell them they are restraining your son's freedom of movement and segregating him against your express wishes. Quoting: beeches That might get their attention. Doctor's note, maybe too. Tell them they will be directly responsible to ANY damage to him for lack of Vitamin D. you are not going to back down. if you do, they will never take you or another parent seriously again. Best of luck to you. Schools are way too involved in matters that do not concern them. Absolutely not backing down! Thank you for the advice! |
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Lilac.Nights (OP) User ID: 33914227 United States 06/09/2015 04:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I will, for sure...but, I've signed a contract with them until September...the whole summer is ahead of us, any ideas? Get a doctors note about his allergies and that some sun everyday is good for his eczema. We do not have confirmed allergies yet, we have no idea why he has the hives. There is no reason for the doc to give him a note really. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 69455431 United States 06/09/2015 04:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As for vitamin d levels being low and needing the sun to produce it - well, it takes about 5 to 10 minutes TOPS for the body to produce it from solar exposure. But, with the overall increase in UV rays hitting the surface - those levels will crash anyway as whatever is produced is used up to repair damage. Sunscreen or not, yoru child is not safe in the sun beyond a few minutes. Take it as you will... |
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Lilac.Nights (OP) User ID: 33914227 United States 06/09/2015 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The atmosphere is thinner in the northern hemisphere, hence it does not matter how safe you think it is in comparison to other areas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69455431 As for vitamin d levels being low and needing the sun to produce it - well, it takes about 5 to 10 minutes TOPS for the body to produce it from solar exposure. But, with the overall increase in UV rays hitting the surface - those levels will crash anyway as whatever is produced is used up to repair damage. Sunscreen or not, yoru child is not safe in the sun beyond a few minutes. Take it as you will... I respectfully disagree, but thank you for your input! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 61141638 Sweden 06/09/2015 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I feel your pain OP. This is nuts. Like 150 years ago, skin cancer was unheard of, and people spent much much more in the sun, often with just a hat. This might not be of any help in this particular case, but still interesting. Eat your sunscreen [link to wellnessmama.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 69462102 United Kingdom 06/09/2015 04:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The atmosphere is thinner in the northern hemisphere, hence it does not matter how safe you think it is in comparison to other areas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69455431 As for vitamin d levels being low and needing the sun to produce it - well, it takes about 5 to 10 minutes TOPS for the body to produce it from solar exposure. But, with the overall increase in UV rays hitting the surface - those levels will crash anyway as whatever is produced is used up to repair damage. Sunscreen or not, yoru child is not safe in the sun beyond a few minutes. Take it as you will... did you know that sunscreen like glass allows the correct wavelenght of light through to the skin to produce vitamin d2. the body has to convert this d2 into d3, which in turn takes up d3. leaving a net loss of d3. understand? |
Lilac.Nights (OP) User ID: 33914227 United States 06/09/2015 04:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Because of my exchange of emails with the school I guess, I just received and email that is addressed to ALL families "Hello Families, As the sun continues to shine, we want to make sure the kids are protected! Licensing requires us to apply sunscreen on students when they are in the sun. Without sunscreen, students will be restricted to playing in the shade. We use the Health Department recommended Coppertone Waterbabies or Coppertone Kids on all exposed skin. If you prefer to use a different sunscreen, please send it to school. It must be a sunscreen with a manufacturer's label showing the SPF. Thank You, ... Staff" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 61141638 Sweden 06/09/2015 04:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The atmosphere is thinner in the northern hemisphere, hence it does not matter how safe you think it is in comparison to other areas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69455431 As for vitamin d levels being low and needing the sun to produce it - well, it takes about 5 to 10 minutes TOPS for the body to produce it from solar exposure. But, with the overall increase in UV rays hitting the surface - those levels will crash anyway as whatever is produced is used up to repair damage. Sunscreen or not, yoru child is not safe in the sun beyond a few minutes. Take it as you will... Yes, it's the sun, not the 1300+ atomic bombs we have blown in the atmosphere. Same with lungcancer. People smoked a lot more back in the 40's, so we should have seen the peak-lung-cancer long time ago. Well.. we have not, it's still peaking, and their assumptions are just wrong. |
Lilac.Nights (OP) User ID: 33914227 United States 06/09/2015 04:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | wait it out and if you can home school that would be great. none the less fight them. I am mad right along with you reading this.. Don't other parents fight that? I'm actually pissed for everyone. Parents should be free to use or NOT to use sunscreen. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 69272347 United States 06/09/2015 04:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do the kids get to use their own sun-screen? If so, I'd buy a bottle of sunscreen, dump it out, and replace it with aloe lotion or something. Then, he can be slathered with the lotion, and no one is the wiser. If each kid doesn't get their own sunscreen, I'd invent some allergy or something and say the kid needs his own special (medical, organic, whatever) sunscreen that you will be happy to provide. Once again, he gets slathered with something that's not sunscreen, and no one is the wiser. A funny side note...I understand that now, a lack of Vitamin D is becoming a bigger health threat than the threat of skin cancer. We live in crazy times. |