Medical Help for Kids with Diabetes: Mandatory in California Schools

Filed in archive News , Treatment on August 11, 2007

In lieu of a legal settlement recently announced in Oakland, all California schools are mandated to have a diabetes treatment professional to assist school children with diabetes.

The said policy aims to provide equal educational opportunities to children with disabilities, in this case -diabetes, under federal laws.

According to Arlene Mayerson, an attorney with the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, which represented four families in the lawsuit filed in 2004:

"The importance of this settlement is it's applying those laws to children with diabetes. This will be a model for states across the country.

We get hundreds of calls from parents frantic because they have to send kids with diabetes to school, not having any security they're going to be served there. That has resulted in parents quitting jobs, selling homes."

This mandate is really great and will be one less worry for parents of diabetic school children. Hopefully, the rest of the country (and the world too!) will follow suit.

Source: USA Today