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<blockquote data-quote="Alasdair" data-source="post: 1761169" data-attributes="member: 47862"><p>Looking at this from an outsider point of view, and I also accept that I don’t know all the details so it might sound a little harsh but:</p><p></p><p>1) this sounds like an elective trip. Therefore many student will not go because of the cost or family holidays or something else. I, and many others, missed the school ski trip to Italy - not because I was diabetic but because my folks couldn’t / wouldn’t fork out the money</p><p></p><p>2) attendance levels in the academic year are below 50%. I appreciate that there may be valid reasons for this - or is there? I don’t know obviously so it has to be asked. This is an eye opening statistic and I’d imagine the school are concerned about her attendance and the impact that it is having on her education. The trip is extra curricular so I would’ve thought it fairly normal for kids with poor attendance or poor behaviour records to be excluded from ‘reward’ or events outside of the school premises where legal liability may change etc.</p><p></p><p>3) the school need to do a proper risk assessment. Child’s attendance may form part of that because there are so many ‘unknowns’ (how well do they ‘know’ the pupil given the lack of attendance?)</p><p></p><p>4) teachers are teachers, not doctors or nurses and definitely not diabetes specialist. They are responsible for many things but primarily they are in it to help educate. If someone has shown that they have a medical condition that they cannot manage well for themselves (to the point where attendance is less than 50% for example) then why should a teacher be expected to carry the responsibility of helping them manage it while in a foreign country???</p><p></p><p></p><p>I hope you manage to get a solution that wins for everyone but I think there also has to be a realistic look at it before firing out the discrimination card.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alasdair, post: 1761169, member: 47862"] Looking at this from an outsider point of view, and I also accept that I don’t know all the details so it might sound a little harsh but: 1) this sounds like an elective trip. Therefore many student will not go because of the cost or family holidays or something else. I, and many others, missed the school ski trip to Italy - not because I was diabetic but because my folks couldn’t / wouldn’t fork out the money 2) attendance levels in the academic year are below 50%. I appreciate that there may be valid reasons for this - or is there? I don’t know obviously so it has to be asked. This is an eye opening statistic and I’d imagine the school are concerned about her attendance and the impact that it is having on her education. The trip is extra curricular so I would’ve thought it fairly normal for kids with poor attendance or poor behaviour records to be excluded from ‘reward’ or events outside of the school premises where legal liability may change etc. 3) the school need to do a proper risk assessment. Child’s attendance may form part of that because there are so many ‘unknowns’ (how well do they ‘know’ the pupil given the lack of attendance?) 4) teachers are teachers, not doctors or nurses and definitely not diabetes specialist. They are responsible for many things but primarily they are in it to help educate. If someone has shown that they have a medical condition that they cannot manage well for themselves (to the point where attendance is less than 50% for example) then why should a teacher be expected to carry the responsibility of helping them manage it while in a foreign country??? I hope you manage to get a solution that wins for everyone but I think there also has to be a realistic look at it before firing out the discrimination card. [/QUOTE]
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