Parents Of Student Denied Inhaler Get Attorney

[troung]

They can find a lawyer but are too damn lazy to sign a form.

Parents Of Student Denied Inhaler Get Attorney
Parents Of Student Denied Inhaler Get Attorney - Orlando News Story - WESH Orlando

DELTONA, Fla. -- A Volusia County mother wants her son's school nurse off the job and arrested.

Parent Susan Rudi said other children are in danger if the nurse stays on her post, but according to school officials, the nurse did the right thing.

Lawyer Mark Lippman, who represents George and Cindy Anthony, was hired Thursday to represent Michael Rudi, 17, a Deltona High School senior whose inhaler was taken away Friday after a backpack search.

The nurse, Shamhia Johnson, an LPN, said Rudi's mother did not sign the proper paperwork for him to carry the albuterol inhaler. The teen said the nurse wouldn't give the inhaler to him even when he had an attack.

"If this isn't a clear case of child abuse, (we're) not sure why this nurse is still working for the school board," Lippman said. "My ultimate goal is to make sure this doesn’t happen again."

Lippman said he plans to file a lawsuit against the school, the school board and the nurse for denying the teen his medication and for not calling 911.

"The student was obviously upset because we had taken the medication from him. The nurse felt he was becoming a little bit aggressive, and she felt threatened, so she closed her door. The administrator took the student into his office and kept him there until mom was at the school," said Nancy Wait, spokeswoman of the Volusia County Schools.

"This is absolute disregard for human life. How can you watch a human being suffocated and do nothing?" said Susan Rudi.

"The way it's being portrayed is not how it happened," Wait said. "The student was never in a full-blown asthma attack. The administrator and the school nurse, who is a licensed practical nurse, were both watching the student, and at no time did they determine that an ambulance needed to be called for this student. She followed protocol. It’s not only the schools district's policy to administer medication without the proper paperwork, it's a state law."

The attorney said the law needs to be changed.

[Tarek Morgen]

Due my whole school career I carried inhalers and enough other medicines with me to open a small pharmacy. No one at school did even think about taking those away from me nor was any form required (and that was in Bavaria). In fact some of my classmates were given some as well to carry with them in case of an emergency and me being unable to take/retrieve my own.

[Blademaster]

Effect of over zealous DEA. I think the DEA has gone out of control with its hyper aggressive policies of going after the users, legitimate and illegitimate. Through the actions of DEA, USA is becoming more of a police state.

The DEA needs to be disbanded or cut down to size.

[Officer of Engineers]

The DEA needs to be disbanded or cut down to size.

Can you do it?

Compare the size of the ART OF WAR, the first field manual, to the field manual libraries today. The size and scope of knowledge have expanded drastically, perhaps beyond our abilities to control it.

[troung]

Effect of over zealous DEA. I think the DEA has gone out of control with its hyper aggressive policies of going after the users, legitimate and illegitimate. Through the actions of DEA, USA is becoming more of a police state.

This has nothing to do with the DEA - the parents/kid didn't sign a form they knew they had to sign. The nurses are claiming he was not in danger.

Based on the reporting the nurse acted correctly.

[USSWisconsin]

The school should file a counter suit and fix these lazy parents - who try to claim nothing is their fault and then seek to cash in on a problem which they created - selfish lazy people. If I was the judge, they would spend a few days in my jail for contempt of court - and then be releived of their fat bank accounts that provide them with the means to sue a public school for their own neglegence, and for bringing frivolous and abusive suits to court.

[kato]

Tarek, we're in Germany though. No one here would ever start searching backpacks. At least seriously. It's not like they wouldn't find stuff if they started searching either. And i'm not just talking about inhalers. Or drugs.

[dave lukins]

The school should file a counter suit and fix these lazy parents - who try to claim nothing is their fault and then seek to cash in on a problem which they created - selfish lazy people. If I was the judge, they would spend a few days in my jail for contempt of court - and then be releived of their fat bank accounts that provide them with the means to sue a public school for their own neglegence, and for bringing frivolous and abusive suits to court.

You missed out a public flogging. If a woman can claim $millions for spilling (McD)coffee on her lap whilst driving ...anything could happen.