Maryland legislators try to get sunscreen off of the controlled substances list
Bill Would Legislate Maryland Students’ Use of Sunscreen
It’s a boiling hot late spring day and your child has soccer practice at school. What do you do? If you are in many school systems in Maryland you call your doctor and ask him to write a prescription so the school will let him use sunscreen.
Four school systems require a doctor’s order for students to apply sunscreen. Eleven require at least a parent’s note. Eight systems require students to leave the product with the school health officer. Rules can vary from school to school within each system.
Sunscreen is a controlled substance? A kid can go to the school nurse to get an aspirin but can’t put on sunscreen without a doctor’s note?
“We wouldn’t want them to be sharing them with other kids who might have a hypersensitivity,” said Donna Heller, health services manager for Howard County schools. “Even with hand and body lotions, we require a note from the parents.”
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“If you had a very young kid, and they put it in their eyes, it could hurt them,” said Judith Covich, Montgomery’s director of health and student services.
The school systems in Maryland are so restrictive against basic sun protection that state legislators are crafting laws to force them to let kids wear sunscreen. This gives new meaning to the phrase ‘beyond the pale’.
In addition to sunscreen, the new laws will force schools to give asthmatics access to their inhalers.
The population elects the school boards. The school boards hire the administrators. Maryland doesn’t need new laws, it needs voters who care enough to get informed.
(Tip credit to Opinion Journal, BAlferow, and Tim Wise)
LOL all I can say is how ridiculous. In England it’s just the opposite, they force students to use sunscreen there. We live in a world now where everything is either prohibited or mandatory. I don’t think people even know what free choice is anymore.
Burn, Baby, Burn
As first reported by our own Jellio, the weather is getting nicer. That’s good news for everyone, unless you’re a pasty teen in Maryland. Some Maryland school districts classify sunscreen as a “controlled substance,” which requires a doctor’s note….
school bords are elected? well now i am shure about that fack id you know high school and jounr high school students should be aloud to vote in these elections untell then i well have to keep looking for a fack id
Totally ridiculous. When will common sense be allowed back in our schools. Home schooling is sounding better and better. At least you can teach your kid tolerance and common sense.
Slight correction:
Only 13 out of 24 Maryland school boards are elected. The other 11 are appointed.
i think face id is not a good thing to get hold ov coz under age kids can get in to adult inviroment and tack uncontrold subsansiz