Quoth a district spokescritter: "It’s really a dangerous situation."
Unlike, say … sunburn and long-term increase of risk for melanoma?
Maybe it's because here in Colorado we're at high altitude, but all the schools my daughter has done to provide sun screen, and make sure the kids slather it on before going out on a field trip. You sign a form to allow it at the beginning of the school year.
Apparently San Antonio, Texas, isn't quite up to that level of thinking ahead.
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No Sunscreen Allowed at School: “Kids could drink it.” : Free Range Kids
Fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers, Ivy League rejection letters and/or the perils of a non-organic grape.
How many hours before a lawyer sets up a class action lawsuit against the San Antonio school district for carcinogenic risk?
So some professional educators are not confident of their ability to teach their students not to drink sunscreen? Seems like there should be some job openings there soon. And on the other hand, I wonder if its possible to make edible sunscreen.
I worry that some kids might eat the cafeteria food.