Your child has type 1 diabetes, and the school won't enroll her
Reading and ’riting and ’rithmetic, counting carbs to the tune of a finger stick . . .
Or so the song might go for schoolchildren living with diabetes. But for some those “dear old Golden Rule days” seem long gone.
According to the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi, type 1 children already facing lifetimes of glucose testing, carbohydrate counting and insulin injections or pumps have been turned away from several of the state’s best known federally and privately funded schools and early-learning programs.
“When a family gets a diagnosis of type 1, finding a school that will take care of your child should not be the hardest thing you have to do, especially since that is where kids spend most of their time,” said Jameskia Lacey, a pharmacist whose daughter Taylar, 6, was diagnosed with type 1 in March.
Read more: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/09/28/mississippi-schools-reject-children-type-1-diabetes/1445801002/