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

[TheKentuckian]

135. Mom shouldn't have needed to send any silly ass doctors note for sunscreen

and if there was no such silly ass rule then maybe (though I cannot know for certain) the kids would have had the simple means to take care of themselves. Same goes for the silly ass hat ban.

I don't blame the teacher for not spending an hour or two phone treeing parents to alert them that field day is going to be <gasp> outside.

The fault is with the district or the state for dictating insanity. No head cover and no sunscreen but it is okay to be outside all day but kids couldn't possibly burn.

Sunscreen issues must be damn rare since an amusement park near me sets up stands and folks lather on as much as they want and too few have a reaction that results in them limiting their liability by getting rid of it which would also save them a pile of cash by not buying the sunscreen.

It is far more probable that an exposed kid will burn up than a kid is going to have a reaction to shared sunscreen.

I guess parents in general have blame for expecting perfection of prescience and omnipotence from a teacher with a job to do in managing their children who should also know what sunscreen they can't use and failing that not to be using anyone's but their own and also for allowing their state and districts to put in such hairbrained rules without common sense exceptions that their supposedly smarter than a poodle children can utilize for protecting themselves from a real and physical universe while one teacher who is one person does their best with all thirty or so kids.