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<blockquote data-quote="RosieLKH" data-source="post: 1132225" data-attributes="member: 108816"><p>You haven't said how old your daughter is, but from your post I'm assuming she's in KS2 (juniors). As an ex-deputy head I have to say that most teachers will know very little about diabetes unless they have it themselves, have someone close to them with it or have gone out of their way to find out about it. In 27 years I was never offered a diabetes awareness course. I had epipen courses every year, but nothing for diabetes. </p><p>You could ask if the school nurse could give the teachers a staff meeting on this. All the school nurses I have come across have been brilliant and their staff meetings were always worthwhile, but I've not used them for diabetes awareness with teachers and I know many of us have had experiences of our own medical centre nurses knowing very little about diabetes, so that might not be good. Also, many schools no longer have access to school nurses. It's worth talking to the school about that though. Failing that you could share your knowledge of diabetes with staff - most usefully with all teachers and TAs at a staff meeting, but that might be daunting for you.</p><p>As to the teacher - well, their attutide does not sound good and I have to say you do get the odd one or two teachers who might be like that, but it's not typical of our profession. It sounds like the teacher is being very defensive for some reason and things have possibly got to the stage where you need a meeting with the teacher, the headteacher and, if possible, a diabetes nurse. </p><p>If things happen that you are not happy with do jot the details down in a log, and do talk to the head. In my experience parents often don't mention things because they feel they are telling tales, will make situations worse or will make the teachers pick on the children, but the school management team can only do something about situations if they know about them. The school has a duty of care for your child and unless they understand their diabetic needs and the implications of the disease on an individual child's education they cannot best fulfill their duty. There are so many misunderstandings about diabetes that I'm sure many teachers will have some odd ideas. I am type 2 so know very little about type 1 other than what I've learnt from having diabetic children in my class, and each of those had different needs.</p><p>I think you need to keep the dialogue with the school going and if you can keep calm and patient all the better, but I think that teacher sounds very trying, so going straight to the top and explain how you feel to the head and, more importantly, how the teacher makes your child feel is important.</p><p>Good luck (and sorry for the long reply!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RosieLKH, post: 1132225, member: 108816"] You haven't said how old your daughter is, but from your post I'm assuming she's in KS2 (juniors). As an ex-deputy head I have to say that most teachers will know very little about diabetes unless they have it themselves, have someone close to them with it or have gone out of their way to find out about it. In 27 years I was never offered a diabetes awareness course. I had epipen courses every year, but nothing for diabetes. You could ask if the school nurse could give the teachers a staff meeting on this. All the school nurses I have come across have been brilliant and their staff meetings were always worthwhile, but I've not used them for diabetes awareness with teachers and I know many of us have had experiences of our own medical centre nurses knowing very little about diabetes, so that might not be good. Also, many schools no longer have access to school nurses. It's worth talking to the school about that though. Failing that you could share your knowledge of diabetes with staff - most usefully with all teachers and TAs at a staff meeting, but that might be daunting for you. As to the teacher - well, their attutide does not sound good and I have to say you do get the odd one or two teachers who might be like that, but it's not typical of our profession. It sounds like the teacher is being very defensive for some reason and things have possibly got to the stage where you need a meeting with the teacher, the headteacher and, if possible, a diabetes nurse. If things happen that you are not happy with do jot the details down in a log, and do talk to the head. In my experience parents often don't mention things because they feel they are telling tales, will make situations worse or will make the teachers pick on the children, but the school management team can only do something about situations if they know about them. The school has a duty of care for your child and unless they understand their diabetic needs and the implications of the disease on an individual child's education they cannot best fulfill their duty. There are so many misunderstandings about diabetes that I'm sure many teachers will have some odd ideas. I am type 2 so know very little about type 1 other than what I've learnt from having diabetic children in my class, and each of those had different needs. I think you need to keep the dialogue with the school going and if you can keep calm and patient all the better, but I think that teacher sounds very trying, so going straight to the top and explain how you feel to the head and, more importantly, how the teacher makes your child feel is important. Good luck (and sorry for the long reply!). [/QUOTE]
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