School to Blame for Students Suffering Severe Sunburns?

Personally, I want to know how many doctors have time to sit and write doctor's notes for something as simple as sunscreen.

Wow this is so stupid. Hello have you heard of skin cancer? You know when you're most prone to it is during your child hood and when you get older you can show symptoms. This is insane. Protect the kids skin!

A note expressing the school's polices regarding sunscreen should have been included in the first week of school in take home papers. All school papers should come home and returned right away. It is the responsibility of the school and parents to make sure papers are signed. I had to chase down lost papers more than once.

Oh wow....this is just crazy!

I agree the schools are getting ridiculous!!! They are also not allowed to bring chapstick without filling out all the paperwork.

Schools are going too far....where's the common sence? If there is a worry about another child using the sunscreen and having an allergic reaction, let the child put their sunscreen on in the nurses office...whatever....ridiculous!

I think it's ridiculous to require a doctor's note for sunscreen. The odds of a kid being allergic to the sunscreen are much slighter than a fair-skinned child suffering from a severe sunburn when being outside all day. The state that I'm in thankfully does not subscribe to this idiocy, and I send sunblock with my son to school for use in gym class because he, like myself, is prone to bad sunburns.

Schools have gone too far with their rules against drugs! they are just ridiculous as this story shows. My son had chronic/severe asthma in elem sch and I had terrible problems with his school b/c I wanted him to carry his inhaler especially while playing soccer and other sports on the playground. They wanted him to run to the nurses office , during an asthma attack, hoping the nurse was in, wait for her to locate his athma inhaler, unlock it and administer it. I had to fight tooth and nail to get them to allow my son to carry his inhaler on person. His asthma was severe, he didn't have time to wait to access the nurses office to gain access to his inhaler. He needed immediate relief so he could breathe ! I finally got them to relent with the help of my son's dr.

Their mother should have thought ahead but you can't plan for everything. This story is so ridiculous and it's because of incidents like these that more and more parents are choosing to homeschool their children.