From Idea to Action

There are many good ideas being posted in the blog so far. Everything from ideas as simple as organizing drawers to having dedicated school nurses for each school are all valid solutions that address the issue raised by the hopefully hypothetical situation in the prompt. The difficulty in making such moves lies in the logistics and the resources available to school districts. Private schools are somewhat removed from this debate as they rely on their own funding and usually have adequate services for their students. Public schools however, have limited resources and even more limited control over changing their circumstances. Having a dedicated nurse would no doubt eliminate such a problem. Having office administration that is aware of each child’s medical condition would of course increase efficiency during times of emergency. With so many students and so little staff however, such ideas remain just that, ideas. I would agree with the other bloggers in their recommendation of having teachers responsible for each of their students’ medications. This responsibility is a little easier to take than the large scale project of making the administration responsible for the whole school.