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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lizdeluz" data-source="post: 1442887" data-attributes="member: 32108">I used to teach, and as a Type 1, I found that diabetes could get squashed out of my attention, because life in school was very hectic, very few pauses really. I think it's great that you are doing such a good job of researching the needs of your charge.  What is his age?  Are you in a secondary or primary school? I didn't become a Type 1 diabetic until I was 30, so I didn't have to cope with it while I was a student in school, but, later, just as a teacher in school!  At one point I had two Type 1 students in my class.  At the time they were 14 or 15 years old.  No one was in the class looking out for them, though I was aware, as were all the teachers, of their Type 1 and they had support in the school and the permission to leave class if necessary. As [USER=39639]@azure[/USER] says, it's important that a Type 1 student can conduct his/her own school life as normally as possible.  The way schools provide for Type 1s has changed a great deal over the years that I was teaching, in the same way that public awareness has changed.  There were some barmy ideas sometimes, but they were always meant well and aimed at helping the student with diabetes to cope. I wish you well with carrying on with what you are already doing: joining the forum to find out about diabetes, how people feel about lots of different issues, new developments, maybe reading the youth and parent sections as they will be ultra relevant to your work.  Good luck!  I'd be interested to know how schools currently approach diabetes.</blockquote>

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