Accident at school

jpmummy

I was asking whether my opinion was right! I didn't imply that the school was poor.... I asked for opinions and experiences, not sarcasam such as "schools dont have medical profesionals and x-ray equipment!) or its not an ambulance job for a non life threating arm break....

peachyprice

jpmummy wrote: »

I was asking whether my opinion was right! ....

And the majority of people say it isn't.

jollymummy

I hope your little boy is soon feeling better what a worrying time for you. I haven't any advice I'm afraid as my little boy hasn't started school yet but just wanted to send you both my best wishes.

melorablack

jpmummy wrote: »

My question is I am off to see the school on Monday and want to know am I right in thinking that they should have called for medical assistance? I think they should have owing to the distress he was in, it was clearly not a knock on his arm.

You did imply that the school was poor in it's handling of the accident.

fernliebee

Hope your little boy recovers quickly! That must have been very scarey for such a littley

I think in terms of school procedures they did the right thing, but in terms of emotional response, I think most of us- especially mums/ dads would have wanted to get them to hospital asap, however the school are bound by insurance issues/ staffing issues/ protocol etc- plus, having worked with children for a long time, you'd be amazed by the amount of parents that would moan no matter what you did!! I had a parent complain because they had sent their child to an open access play session with no drink, suncream or hat on a boiling day, and I gave them a hat and some water to drink! Apparently the child didn't like water, and didn't 'need' a hat! !!!!!!!!! He drunk it fine, when he had been running around playing football in the hot sun!

Also not to downplay your son's injury but a friend of mine broke their arm while in school, and they were crying and telling the teacher it hurt all day, and the teacher thought they were exaggerating, so made them sit all day through school and only told her parents when they came to pick her up!

jimexbox

What would the school of done if a parent was an hour away or longer? There is no 'rule' that the next-of-kin must be within a certain distance from school premises. I hope the would of called an ambulance. Lets face it, the ambulance service spend a lot of time and money picking drunks up on a Friday night, a 5yrs old in distress with a possible serious injury is hardly going to annoy them is it?

melorablack

jimexbox wrote: »

What would the school of done if a parent was an hour away or longer? There is no 'rule' that the next-of-kin must be within a certain distance from school premises. I hope the would of called an ambulance. Lets face it, the ambulance service spend a lot of time and money picking drunks up on a Friday night, a 5yrs old in distress with a possible serious injury is hardly going to annoy them is it?

But they weren't.

That's like saying "what would the school had done if he had fallen off the roof?"

It's a completely different scenario and what is the point of going into "what ifs?"

What if it had been his leg? They would probably have called an ambulance and this thread wouldn't be here.

See... it is irrelevant.

jimexbox

melorablack wrote: »

See... it is irrelevant.

Not quite sure I follow your logic.

Any question that arises from the OP is irrelevant? You must have short discussions in your household.

melorablack

jimexbox wrote: »

Not quite sure I follow your logic.

Any question that arises from the OP is irrelevant? You must have short discussions in your household.

The OP was 20 minutes away. So asking "what if she was an hour away?" does not help the OP at all because she wasn't.

She want's experiences and opinions. Not completely different scenarios that are of no help to the original question.

And if she was an hour away the school may have done things differently, but she wasn't so they didn't.

SugarSpun

jimexbox wrote: »

What would the school of done if a parent was an hour away or longer?

What they did do: they called her. If she'd been unable to get there, she'd probably have arranged for one of her parents, both of whom were nearby, to go collect him.

Are you one of those people who's up in arms when an ambulance takes twenty minutes to reach someone who's having a heart attack? Or a woman gives birth on her front lawn because it took so long for the paramedics to turn up? Non-essential uses of ambulances are why these things happen, and a kid with three close relatives within easy reach of both him and a hospital, with a non-life threatening injury and people around him to keep an eye on him while his mother was on their way, is a non-essential use.

I imagine the wait for his mother was nowhere near as traumatic as the breaking his arm in the first place. The school did the best they could while being bound by all sorts of insurance and legal requirements, and the kid is fine. What's left to talk about?