Sunscreen school policy I need advice I'm pissed

Your son would not have eczema if you fed him a healthy diet.

It's your fault he is now isolated from the other children.

You are a bad parent.

I don't see a problem with a sunscreen policy...who's to say that if they let your child play outside and he got a bad sunburn, that you wouldn't try to sue or go after them. They have to cover their butts too. But they're idiots for putting those toxic sunscreens in kids. Parents need to step up and research.

My four year old has very fair skin and she could burn easily like I always did. I use coconut oil with a bit of carrot seed oil mixed in if we're out in the early morning or evening sun. Carrot seed oil has a natural SPF of 25-30. Coconut oil is around 4. In the hot sun I use a homemade balm with beeswax, coconut oil, Shea butter, cocoa butter, red raspberry seed oil, and non-nano zinc oxide. We also use an after sun oil with almond, sesame, aloe Vera, chamomile, lavender, and geranium oils. It's awesome for extending your tan! There's a company called Badger Balm that has a nice sunscreen if you don't want to make it yourself :)

There are natural things that work as sun screen - carrot oil is one - there is also zinc - eczema in some clear up with a gluten free diet - so that might be tried and then there will be no issue.

Natural Homemade Sunscreen

Homemade Natural Sunscreen Recipe very moisturizing and easy to make 300x157 Natural Homemade Sunscreen
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Homemade natural sunscreen with beneficial oils, zinc oxide and beeswax for water protection.
Author: Wellness Mama
Recipe type: Remedy
Ingredients
½ cup almond or olive oil (can infuse with herbs first if desired)
¼ cup coconut oil (natural SPF 4)
¼ cup beeswax
2 Tablespoons Zinc Oxide (This is a non-nano version that won't be absorbed into the skin. Be careful not to inhale the powder).
Optional: up to 1 teaspoon Red Raspberry Seed Oil
Optional: up to 1 teaspoon Carrot Seed Oil
Optional: up to 1 teaspoon Vitamin E oil
Optional: 2 tablespoons Shea Butter (natural SPF 4-5)
Optional: Essential Oils, Vanilla Extract or other natural extracts to suit your preference
Instructions
Combine ingredients except zinc oxide in a pint sized or larger glass jar. I have a mason jar that I keep just for making lotions and lotion bars, or you can even reuse a glass jar from pickles, olives, or other foods.
Fill a medium saucepan with a couple inches of water and place over medium heat.
Put a lid on the jar loosely and place in the pan with the water.
As the water heats, the ingredients in the jar will start to melt. Shake or stir occasionally to incorporate. When all ingredients are completely melted, add the zinc oxide, stir in well and pour into whatever jar or tin you will use for storage. Small mason jars (pint size) are great for this. It will not pump well in a lotion pump!
Stir a few times as it cools to make sure zinc oxide is incorporated.
Use as you would regular sunscreen. Best if used within six months.

see link for full info: [link to wellnessmama.com]

I believe that it would be sensible for schools to erect safe areas for children to play outdoors while being shielded from Ultraviolet radiation. The dangers are much worst than just a sunburn, it could kill a kid. An exposure that happens today can result in the development of a highly metastasizing cancer called melanoma and a diagnosis is almost a certain death. UV radiation also severely damages eyes, the more UV radiation that enters your eyes the faster they degrade.

I've seen what the Sun is doing to kids whose parents don't take any precautions. Sunburns are not fun for anybody, but for kids they can be especially damaging and painful.

Hey op, just thinking here --- another BIG thing -

Thinking this all is way to intimate an act to be having the teachers applying sunscreen to the kids faces, necks and arms - that is a lot of intimate touching and rubbing.

We already know that child pedos gravitate toward work with children - now they want license to rub the children's faces and bodies - big freekin yikes!

I mean - Hastert - 3rd in command at highschool in Yorkville 40 years ago!!!

This used to be the discussions on these sites - - discussion about all the pedos and their modus operandum and how they got caught and found out - ie satanic ritual abuse -- anyone??!!

These teachers who want to feel up our kids -- teachers who parents really don't know squat at all about -- being given license to touch the kids with lotion --

Worse then the chemical damage done!
It is like grooming for sexual abuse!!!

But then again they always do use these seemingly harmless things as vehicles to do something perverse !!

Allergies, eczema, asthma are all on the same gene, get it. Believe me I know, re specialists, john Hopkins, children's, pediatric cancer, & blood disorder specialists, & yrs & yrs of doing this with several kids.

And hives are an allergic response. So was cradle cap etc as Drs look for that if baby sick cold, & guage if upper respiratory risk.

A note should be no problem. As recess such short time, & USA kids get such little outside time daily. Sun good for eczema, immune system, & rashes.. Unless of course lupus, etc..

And the goo screens gunk up pours, cause allergic reactions, and re all the ingredients and n some children's screen a carcinogen.

A good sun hat that covers neck from burn too is good, but this school is bs..

First - I'm going to bet that the school got sued by someone whose kid got sunburned. So now the insurance company requires the sunscreen. So, yes get a copy of that "license".

Second - I found this article:
[link to forums.macresource.com] which says that it's ILLEGAL in Washington, for teachers to apply sunscreen on students. The original referenced source link doesn't exist. But I'm sure if you dig, you can find the law and if it's been repealed or not. If it's still in effect, then that beats the insurance requirement.


Third - Funny enough if you google "schools forcing sunscreen", instead of articles mandating it, it's all about schools BANNING students from having it, for multitudes of reasons.

Edited to add this link where they say that Washington bans kids from having sunscreen. So if the kids can't bring it to school, and the teachers can't put it on...*so confused*
hater site/article/247187-Kids-Suffer-Serious-Sunburns-Because-Wash​ington-State-Law-Forbids-Sunscreen-Lotion-in-School

Fourth - I think for recess and lunch time it's ridiculous to require sunscreen. Kids who must have it would have already notified the school and handled it. BUT...I would say, to find an alternative, like the pure zinc oxide (they make colorless and fun colors, depending on what your kid would like) - for field trips where he will be out in the sun for a long amount of time.



Good luck!!

I'm honestly sooo pissed!
My son goes to a small private school in WA, he is in second grade.
I was just informed that the school's policy is "no sunscreen/no play in the sun".
My son is made to stay in a tiny corner of the playground that provides shade for every recess, just because I refuse to put sunscreen on him.
I've already explained that he suffers from eczema and the last year haves and I will not put anything on him. I don't even use soap. Nothing....
First of all our kids are so low on vit D that they need some sun exposure, second we are not on the equator for god's sake, we are in the Northern WA, you can barely get enough sun if you expose your whole naked body to it. The only naked parts on my son are his face, hands and bellow the knees.
This is just retarded.
Don't you hate it when the school tries to be the parent?

This resembles to the T how we were treated during the communism.

I emailed his teacher and that's her reply:
"Yes, you may send your own sunscreen. It needs to have a manufacturer's label showing the SPF. Our licensing policy prohibits us from allowing kids to play in the sun without sunscreen. If you have any further questions, please contact..."

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Meanwhile, other schools won't allow even their extreme fair skin children to bring their own sunscreen for field trips. Because they reason that sunscreen is a drug.

Why are people still sending their children to these schools? I have a teaching license and wouldn't willingly send an innocent child to most schools in this county.

Here we go again, fucking policies. As it specifically states: Our licensing policy prohibits us from allowing kids to play in the sun without sunscreen.

Ok, it prohibits them from allowing it, not you. YOU are not bound by the licensing policy, they are. Their problem, not yours.

So, I would tell them to mind their own damn business and let my child go play, or threaten to get a lawyer. Get a waiver if necessary, but do not let them tell you how to care for your child. This is where you go head to head with them and not back down. Hell, even go to the school during playtime and intervene if need be. When my kids were in school, I lived for this bullshit.

Here we go again, fucking policies. As it specifically states: Our licensing policy prohibits us from allowing kids to play in the sun without sunscreen.

Ok, it prohibits them from allowing it, not you. YOU are not bound by the licensing policy, they are. Their problem, not yours.

So, I would tell them to mind their own damn business and let my child go play, or threaten to get a lawyer. Get a waiver if necessary, but do not let them tell you how to care for your child. This is where you go head to head with them and not back down. Hell, even go to the school during playtime and intervene if need be. When my kids were in school, I lived for this bullshit.

BTW, I am not opposed to sunscreen just someone telling me that I must use it.

I'm absolutely not backing down!
I just emailed them are requested that they send me their "policy" and also our contract.

And get them to point out the section that says you are not allowed to make medical decisions for your child and that the decisions are to be made by the school or their policy.

Empty out a bottle of sunscreen. Make your own mixture of substances that you feel are safe for your child. Place mixture in the bottle. Send that shit to school with your child. Don't make it complicated.

Beat me to it!!! THIS.,tell the school he is allergic to certain kinds and only can have this one. put it in a 50 spf bottle and your golden.

But seriously--White people problems--Am I right folks!?

But the stupid thing is, how would they treat my son there after that ordeal?
I do want him to be in a good environment and respected as an individual. That is why I wanted a private school.

But the teacher is a moron and the director of the school is a ""I speak 5 languages and have 50 degrees and I know everything" kind of lady.

Yes, scary. My daughter is homeschooling next year, she is 16. Public school keep them intentionally busy, kids have no time or energy to actually learn something useful.

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 :)

Beat me to it!!! THIS.,tell the school he is allergic to certain kinds and only can have this one. put it in a 50 spf bottle and your golden.

But seriously--White people problems--Am I right folks!?

Change schools.

This^^, quitcher bitchin and change schools.

I'm not "bitching" I'm changing school as I said.
Did you see their response(my previous post)?