mom angry after kids badly sunburned during field trip (school ban on sunscreen)

[Honeycombe8]

112. Not the article I read. The mother complains that the school didn't "give the girls suncreen"

she doesn't complain the school didn't allow the girls to apply sunscreen they already had.

The policy was that the school:

"it was school policy that a child requires a prescription in order to use medication, even over-the-counter kinds like sunscreen. One of the teachers even applied sunscreen to herself in front of her daughter, Michener stated."

To the contrary, the mother's statements indicate that she had NOT sent sunscreen with teh girls to school. But I did find an article that the mother knew there would be a field day, but she assume it would
be held indoors because it was raining that morning:

"Michener recalled that it was raining the morning her daughters got burned,so she didn't apply sunscreen to her daughters because she assumed the field day would be held inside. Even if the sun came out, the campus had shaded areas and her daughters had never come home sunburned before. "

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57460721-10391704/wash-schools-sunscreen-policy-leaves-two-sisters-badly-burned/