Another School-Confiscated-A-Phone post, EXCEPT: LAOP is the parent and their kid’s phone is used to monitor their glucose for their Type One Diabetes, which they have a 504 for. Bonus: principal told the kid to just “eat less sugar”.

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Hey, my 17 year old son has T1 diabetes. He relies mainly on his phone for glucose monitoring. Yesterday the public school he attends took his phone. Their policy is that is you are “Using for your phone to much” they take it. First time 1 day. Second time 3 days. Third time 5 days. (End of school week) In the past is has not been a problem because after school I have been able to get it. I am out of the country on business and my wife is out of state as well. My wife called the school and they say the will only give the phone back to a “Parent or Legal Guardian” the school knows he has Diabetes. There is no documentation that he uses his phone for glucose. He offered to show the principal. Yesterday my son went to the drug store after school and got a finger pricker. He told me he would be “Fine”. I know how much he hates using one and it is not as good as the continuous glucose monitor on his phone. What legal rights do I have to make the achool give him back his phone before Thursday when My wife gets home?

Thank you all the support and advice. My son’s endo faxed an order and made multiple thinly veiled threats over the phone. My wife’s mother went and met my son at school today. They gave her his phone. We have his phone. All is good for now. However, to make sure this doesn’t happen again I am going to have a lawyer send a letter and hopefully scare them shitless. They are going into apologies and cover my ass mode. It is getting late here is Germany and I have a big day tomorrow. Thanks again!

thejazziestcat on December 5th, 2018 at 03:54 UTC »

Diabetic? Just eat less sugar! Got ADHD? Just focus harder! Depressed? Just be positive! Broken leg? Walk it off! Mauled by a bear? Just stop bleeding so much!

SoldMySoulForHairDye on December 5th, 2018 at 03:03 UTC »

Reminds me of a girl I knew in middle school who had an insulin pump. A mean nasty teacher thought it was a beeper (this was back when cool kids had beepers and those were banned from school) and made a huge deal of trying to take it from her and didn't listen to repeated cries of, 'It is my insulin pump, you insane woman.' That girl's parents came down on the school like the wrath of titans and I don't know specifically what they said, but the fear of god was in that school so hard that she could have opened a brothel in the library and they wouldn't have said a word about it.

GetOffMyLawn_ on December 5th, 2018 at 01:24 UTC »

Vaguely reminds me of the school nurse who wasn't going to let me participate in after school sports because she wrongly thought I needed to get a tetanus booster every year. My pediatrician called her up and chewed her out for being 20 years behind the times.