My son has vitiligo, and also burns quite easily on the spots where he has no pigmentation. At the beginning of every school year, his doctor supplies the correct paper work and I send a bottle of sunscreen to school.
We also apply sunscreen every morning, every day. It is a habit. Overcast or not. As a parent with a child who burns easily it is MY job to educate myself, overcast days do not protect from UV rays. I am pro-active, and I make sure my son will not burn.
When he goes to a friends, sunscreen is with him. It's not hard to do any of this, it just needs to be a priority and habit.
In my opinion, this mother should have asked the school's policy at the beginning of the year, or during registration, and then there would have never been a problem.
2nd Degree Sunburn When School Requires Doctor's Note for Sunscreen: Blame School?
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Schools have to cover themselves from over-litigious parents. However, sometimes over-protecting students can lead to under-protecting them. Consider this case of a two girls Violet, 11, and Zoe, 9, in Tacoma, Washington. The girls suffer from a form of albinism and require sunscreen lotion when going in the sun. The school, however, requires a doctor's note for sunscreen. Who deserves the blame for the girls suffering 2nd degree sunburns.
FoxNews.com reports:
FoxNews.com reports:
A Tacoma, Wash., mom is seeing red after her fair-skinned daughters returned home from school severely sunburned. Michener says she did not give the girls sunscreen because it appeared to be an overcast day, but says that school officials should have been able to let them apply sunscreen when the sun came out--especially since both Violet, 11, and Zoe, 9, suffer from a form of albinism.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/06/25/sisters-suffer-sever...
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Deliciously Melicious 2012/06/26 01:06:21
I have 3 kids (one is past high school), plus a niece that I am raising, so I've been dealing with schools for quite a few years now. I have never heard of having to have any kind of note for kids to use sunscreen. The teachers send notes home requesting that you send sunscreen with your child on field day.
Since I first saw this story, I looked up why any school would have such a ridiculous policy. Apparently there are kids that are allergic to ingredients in many sunscreens. I don't think it would be unreasonable to require a note from a parent giving permission to use sunscreen, but I think requiring a doctor's note for sunscreen is just silly.