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[cw: ableist violence] cold corpse of epileptic tenth grader found in toronto public school's "sensoryy room"
(toronto.citynews.ca)
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2024
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Even a high functioning epileptic can die if they have a seizure at a bad time. It's pretty much pure luck that I never had any unattended seizures before getting working medication. Fuckin psycho school admins
What’s the solution in your opinion? Like, how should we prevent this in a fictional better society while still respecting the agency and dignity of the kid? Having a constant minder trained in the requisite first aid could be too much of an imposition even if it would prevent this. I don’t really know and am curious in your thoughts on the matter.
There are alert bracelets for epileptics that detect seizures and can automatically alert relevant parties.
I shouldn’t be shocked that these aren’t just given to kids at risk of a seizure, but god damn this is already solved for the most part. No excuse.
That would certainly be a great start to the long term solution. I was more talking about here and soon, like, how do we build resilient and redundant measures that prevent this in between the existence of a proper treatment and now. Like, surely somebody has figured out a protocol that would have prevented this. We should try and get that implemented or something
Totally agree that increasing the amount of research and qualified researchers is the best way to go long term.
Side note: the American medical association is literally evil, they do everything they can to limit the amount of doctors to inflate their pay by limiting supply. Imagine if there was a much larger amount medical professionals, so much more stuff would have been researched and had treatments developed by now.
Surely they should've had some idea of where he was, how long do they typically leave students in the sensory rooms? It doesn't seem like an imposition to at least know where a kid is and check on him even every 30 minutes. Presumably he was left unattended for a fairly significant amount of time as he was "cold"?
Yeah that’s the thing, if there was an actual protocol that was followed there would still be a kid hugging his mom later today. It’s the lack of a system to prevent this (I am not a Canada expert, maybe an existing one wasn’t followed and needs more scrutiny and oversight) that amazes me. From an outside perspective, if a child in your care is at risk you better front and center that. It’s fucked. I hope prison is on the table at minimum for the adults who had responsibility for this child.