Another idiotic school policy that hurts children.

[pnwmom]

31. You are making this up. You don't know what is in the 504. You don't know that the need for the note

was explained to the mother. She said it wasn't and you don't have any information to the contrary. Meanwhile, the district has APOLOGIZED. At least they, if not you, recognized that they goofed.

And what about all the other hundreds of kids in that school who don't have a 504? Why should they have to spend the money to get a note from a doctor to apply their own sunscreen to their own skin? Why do some schools have dumb zero-tolerance policies that cover even things like sunscreens? Why shouldn’t a child be able to use a parent-supplied sunscreen without paying a doctor to get a note? Why don’t all school administrators use common sense?

WA state law has been changed because our state legislators recognized that the old policy was a dumb policy.

When my kids were in WA schools, our district must have chosen to ignore the policy, because no one said a word when my kids brought sunscreen to school, and used it. Not that that was necessary most of the time . . . .