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...to write letters giving MD/NP permission for kids to take over-the-counter meds at school. I am firmly of the opinion that if a parent can buy a treatment without a prescription, then the parent should be able to give permission for use of said treatment. I consider it a colas sol waste of professional time to have to write "doctor's notes" for things like Tylenol or Clari tin. Prescription meds, of course, are another story.

When our older son was in middle school, the science classes were going to do their annual fall "problem solving" field trip out at a wildlife preserve. The information on the paperwork forbade the bringing of insect repellent. We live in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago, where the mosquitoes are plentiful in the fall. West Nile virus was was being diagnosed daily.

I raised holy hell about this, all the way up to the school board. One of their offered arguments had been that they didn't want to be liable of someone were allergic to insect repellent. I pointed out that they had soap in their bathrooms to which students could be allergic and asked of they were planning to remove that, and also asked if they wanted to risk being liable if a student contract West Nile virus from mosquito bites sustained on the field trip.

Within a matter of a few days, they changed their stance.