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(Breitbart.tv)   Note to St. Louis public schools: "Break a leg, kid" is an old show business saying. And it definitely doesn't mean you should send a kid with a real broken leg home on a school bus   (breitbart.tv) divider line
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NancyGracesTesticles
2007-11-11 6:02:10 PM  
They should have made him walk.
 
King Something [TotalFark]
2007-11-11 7:04:22 PM  
Thread over. NGT wins.
 
Epsilon
2007-11-11 7:09:10 PM  
The parents have a right to be pissed off, and somebody should probably lose their job, but calling for the school to be shut down is way overboard. They want to punish the hundreds of other students by closing their school? Get a brain morans.
 
laars
2007-11-11 7:09:10 PM  
When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...
 
LordJiro [BareFark] [OhFark]
2007-11-11 7:11:47 PM  
laars: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...uphill both ways, in the snow

FTFY
 
TJourney2
2007-11-11 7:11:58 PM  
the mom's last name is McAfee?

the kid is virusfree....
 
SumJackass07 [OhFark]
2007-11-11 7:13:42 PM  
The guy reading that story was about as assertive as Stedman in a room with Oprah and Dr. Phil.

laars: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...
Uphill both ways?

Sucks to be that kid. The teacher that put him on the bus should be fired.
 
tukatz
2007-11-11 7:14:09 PM  
TJourney2: the mom's last name is McAfee?
the kid is virusfree....

Only according to the back of the box....
 
Campaigner444
2007-11-11 7:14:37 PM  
laars & LordJiro: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...uphill both ways, in the snow...seven days a week...

FTFYx2
 
Crocodilly_Pontifex
2007-11-11 7:16:04 PM  
Sounds like someone didn't take the whole "Acting as proxy of parent" thing that schools do too seriously.
 
ehunter
2007-11-11 7:16:11 PM  
Grade school teachers made me walk home with torn ligaments in my ankle when I was a kid. Took 9 months to heal. I have a real hate for pretty much all of my school years due to various issues with teachers... I don't really look forward to dealing with them when my son hits school. Hoping my wife just deals with them...
 
Crocodilly_Pontifex
2007-11-11 7:16:39 PM  
Although, my only question is... unless it was obviously displaced, how would a teacher know if it was broken?
 
TheGreatGazoo
2007-11-11 7:18:24 PM  
Sounds like when I was 5 or 6 and my parents were told I had a 'small cut'.

3 layers of stitches later I was back in one piece.

/Ferguson Florissant schools weren't much better...
 
Barakku
2007-11-11 7:18:49 PM  
LordJiro: laars: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...uphill both ways, in the snow

FTFY

You guys got snow? In my day they sprayed lye all over the roads.
 
ArgusRun
2007-11-11 7:25:47 PM  
Crocodilly_Pontifex: Although, my only question is... unless it was obviously displaced, how would a teacher know if it was broken?

If the kid cannot walk and has to be carried to the bus, it's a pretty good indicator that something is seriously wrong.
 
LukeA
2007-11-11 7:27:27 PM  
Campaigner444: laars & LordJiro: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...uphill both ways, in the snow...seven days a week...in San Juan Puerto Rico...

FTFYG
 
Epsilon
2007-11-11 7:28:03 PM  
Crocodilly_Pontifex: Although, my only question is... unless it was obviously displaced, how would a teacher know if it was broken?

The teacher is not expected to know if it is broken. But when the kids is crying in pain and unable to walk they should at least get the school nurse involved. That's not too much to ask.
 
SecretAgentWoman [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-11-11 7:30:28 PM  
Crocodilly_Pontifex: Although, my only question is... unless it was obviously displaced, how would a teacher know if it was broken?

You see, they have SCHOOL NURSES the teachers can send the kid too now! I know, amazing, isn't it?
 
mcmnky
2007-11-11 7:30:55 PM  
Crocodilly_Pontifex: Although, my only question is... unless it was obviously displaced, how would a teacher know if it was broken?

I guess you wouldn't expect a school lunch either. How would a teacher know if the kids are hungry?

Oh wait, maybe a teacher could have had the kid looked at by the school nurse? Maybe call a doctor?

The kid's bus driver was able to figure out he wasn't able to get off the bus without assistance. But nothing wrong with the kid by the side of the road, unable to walk. Not like the bus driver had any way of knowing the leg was broken.
 
PunkRockLawyer
2007-11-11 7:31:23 PM  
When I was a kid in summer camp, a girl hurt her ankle badly -- I have no idea what was wrong with it because they wouldn't let her get any medical care at all. She was crying constantly for literally about two weeks. It was obvious to all the other kids that she was badly hurt and none of the adults would do anything about it. The camp nurse would curse at her, "There's that little biatch who says her ankle hurts." Eventually they did take her to a doctor somewhere off site, and I never found out what happened but she never came back to camp.

I've always hoped that her parents sued the shiat out of the camp.
But always feared one of the administrators just had her killed or something.

I am still upset about this decades later.

It was called Masonic Camp 7 if anyone's wondering.

So this thing about the broken leg doesn't surprise me in the least. It's horrible but all too typical. Actually I'm pleasantly surprised that the parents even give a crap.
 
portscanner
2007-11-11 7:32:24 PM  
Faux news again. I call shenanigans.
 
RoyBatty
2007-11-11 7:33:54 PM  
Barakku: LordJiro: laars: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...uphill both ways, in the snow

FTFY

You guys got snow? In my day they sprayed lye all over the roads.

All you guys might be interested in my redlight from a day or so ago:

2007-11-09 [Video]: Three generations of the Four Yorkshiremen with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tom Brooke-Taylor, Marty Feldman, Monty Python, Eddie Izzard, Alan Rickman, Harry Enfield and Vic Reeves. They used to dream o the bloody Aristocrats
 
Silverstaff
2007-11-11 7:40:13 PM  
PunkRockLawyer: It was called Masonic Camp 7 if anyone's wondering.

I did a little checking around, apparently it's not around anymore, and they replaced it with a housing development. Don't know if it was due to lawsuits or whatever, but apparently it was open until at least 1985.
 
TheMega
2007-11-11 7:46:37 PM  
Gomer lives!

/surprise surprise surprise!
 
Deranger
2007-11-11 7:52:46 PM  
Imagine Academy of Environmental Science and Math.

Uh, what?
 
ladynagini
2007-11-11 7:55:27 PM  
Crocodilly_Pontifex: Although, my only question is... unless it was obviously displaced, how would a teacher know if it was broken?

The teacher probably didn't know, but the child should have been taken to the school nurse to be examined. The child should have either been transported to a hospital or at the very least, his mother should have been called. It's pretty obvious that the little boy was injured if it was necessary for the teacher to carry the child to the bus & for the bus driver to carry the child off the bus. When a child is at school, it's understood that the school acts in the place of the parents/guardians.

That being said, I don't think the whole school should be shut down, but this incidence should be thoroughly investigated.
 
Crocodilly_Pontifex
2007-11-11 7:57:46 PM  
mcmnky: Oh wait, maybe a teacher could have had the kid looked at by the school nurse? Maybe call a doctor?

That, i can agree with, and im surprised i didnt think of it myself, since my mother is a school nurse.

ArgusRun: If the kid cannot walk and has to be carried to the bus, it's a pretty good indicator that something is seriously wrong.

I'm at work and I can't watch the video. i didn't know that...

I'm sorta curious, why WOULD the teacher have not reported this to someone, it seems like you're trying to hide something when you do that.
 
tonesskin
2007-11-11 7:58:30 PM  
I think they should cancel school and lock up everyone in case terrorism is involved.
 
MellieMc
2007-11-11 8:00:53 PM  
1. I bet the mom doesn't answer her phone.
2. The kid has 2 siblings on the bus with him.
3. If they didn't put the kid on the bus and couldn't contact the mom. The kid would've spent the night at school.
4. We have parents all the time say they won't pick up there kids. They can be puking or whatever. We've had kids with infected rat bites and parents send 'em to school.
5. This mom is looking for a fat check.
That is all.
 
laars
2007-11-11 8:01:45 PM  
ehunter: Grade school teachers made me walk home with torn ligaments in my ankle when I was a kid. Took 9 months to heal. I have a real hate for pretty much all of my school years due to various issues with teachers... I don't really look forward to dealing with them when my son hits school. Hoping my wife just deals with them...

If there is a God your son will knock the bottom out of his Eighth grade Earth science teacher.
 
nativefloridian
2007-11-11 8:02:02 PM  
Epsilon: But when the kids is crying in pain and unable to walk they should at least get the school nurse involved. That's not too much to ask.

Some schools don't have full-time nurses, or they 'share' them with another school (i.e. every other day).

/was lucky enough to go to a magnet school with a medical academy
 
TxRabbit
2007-11-11 8:02:40 PM  
Nuke the school from orbit.

/it's the only way to be sure.
 
Barakku
2007-11-11 8:02:45 PM  
simpsonfan: barakku: they spread lye all over the roads. At least you had a road. When i was a kid, I had to walk twenty miles in the snow, with two broken legs, uphill both ways, barefoot. On a 'path' left by deer, full of deer crap. Frozen deer crap.

At least your deer crap was frozen...our mixed with the lye...
 
iwantamonkey
2007-11-11 8:03:10 PM  
I got strep throat at camp when I was about 16. My mum and sister drove 2 hours to pick me up. Strep throat suuuucks. (Funnily enough, this is the same camp near L.A. where recently a goat was eaten by a mountain lion. Good thing it only got a goat--the cabins only have three walls and are square in shape. Easy pickins.)
I broke my finger in high school and my mother was called. It only took her about half an hour to get there. The first clinic we went to was closed... on a Friday afternoon.
My point is it doesn't take a genius child care worker to tell when something is majorly wrong... like a kid endlessly biatching or crying about pain, almost passing out, or having a fever of 105°F.
 
lokis_mentor
2007-11-11 8:03:37 PM  
When i was a kid, I had to walk twenty miles in the snow, with two broken legs, uphill both ways, barefoot. On a 'path' left by deer, full of deer crap. Frozen deer crap. - with a onion tied to my belt.

FTFE1
 
tonesskin
2007-11-11 8:03:38 PM  
MellieMc: 1. I bet the mom doesn't answer her phone.
2. The kid has 2 siblings on the bus with him.
3. If they didn't put the kid on the bus and couldn't contact the mom. The kid would've spent the night at school.
4. We have parents all the time say they won't pick up there kids. They can be puking or whatever. We've had kids with infected rat bites and parents send 'em to school.
5. This mom is looking for a fat check.
That is all.

You forgot:

6. The school failed, the teacher failed, and cognitive dissonance has taken over.
 
GoodasGold
2007-11-11 8:03:38 PM  
Fire all the blacks in the school district and replace them with whites. Problem solved.
 
tonesskin
2007-11-11 8:04:40 PM  
GoodasGold: Fire all the blacks in the school district everyone and replace them with whites make people pay for their own farking education. Problem solved.
 
AppleOptionEsc
2007-11-11 8:08:04 PM  
Barakku: LordJiro: laars: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...uphill both ways, in the snow

FTFY

You guys got snow? In my day they sprayed lye all over the roads.

Yeah, we got snow, but then they decided 7 days wasn't long enough, so we did it 8 days a week. It wouldn't have been so bad if they cut the grass on the side of the road. The velociraptors were hard to see.
 
RobDownSouth
2007-11-11 8:14:16 PM  
I once injured my right foot in a high school football game. They took x-rays in the locker room and the team doctor (a real old M.D.) told me to quit malingering and get back out there, I was letting people down. Foot hurt for a month afterwards.

Ten years later I have an accident and break a bunch of bones in my OTHER leg. My left foot is so mangled they take X-rays of my right ("good") foot to invert and compare. The doctor looks at my good foot x-ray and says "Son, you have some badly healed serial fractures in your so-called good foot"...I looked and there were four bones badly fused together with calcium lumps all over the place.

I thought about suing the football doctor but he'd passed away.
 
DrForrester
2007-11-11 8:14:18 PM  
MellieMc: 1. I bet the mom doesn't answer her phone.
2. The kid has 2 siblings on the bus with him.
3. If they didn't put the kid on the bus and couldn't contact the mom. The kid would've spent the night at school.
4. We have parents all the time say they won't pick up there kids. They can be puking or whatever. We've had kids with infected rat bites and parents send 'em to school.
5. This mom is looking for a fat check.
That is all.

Please tell me you're a janitor and not a teacher or administrator.
 
Barakku
2007-11-11 8:14:33 PM  
AppleOptionEsc: Barakku: LordJiro: laars: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...uphill both ways, in the snow

FTFY

You guys got snow? In my day they sprayed lye all over the roads.

Yeah, we got snow, but then they decided 7 days wasn't long enough, so we did it 8 days a week. It wouldn't have been so bad if they cut the grass on the side of the road. The velociraptors were hard to see.

Pft...You're complaining about sight? We only got monochrome color back then, and the contrast was shot.

/Doesn't care enough to find relevant Calvin & Hobbes comic
 
CheetahOlivetti [TotalFark]
2007-11-11 8:15:47 PM  
Crocodilly_Pontifex: mcmnky: Oh wait, maybe a teacher could have had the kid looked at by the school nurse? Maybe call a doctor?

That, i can agree with, and im surprised i didnt think of it myself, since my mother is a school nurse.

ArgusRun: If the kid cannot walk and has to be carried to the bus, it's a pretty good indicator that something is seriously wrong.

I'm at work and I can't watch the video. i didn't know that...

I'm sorta curious, why WOULD the teacher have not reported this to someone, it seems like you're trying to hide something when you do that.

Because she's a stupid, heartless biatch?

I broke my arm falling off the monkeybars in first grade. I told my teacher that my wrist hurt really bad, and it was obviously swelling up. She told me there was nothing wrong with it and to go sit at my desk. I walked to my Girl Scout meeting after school, and one of the troop leaders took one look at it and called my mom.

/We had a school nurse. I wasn't allowed to leave class to go see her.
 
uberpest42
2007-11-11 8:16:35 PM  
Crocodilly_Pontifex: Although, my only question is... unless it was obviously displaced, how would a teacher know if it was broken?

Last winter, while at work, I slipped on ice and had a "non-displaced fracture of the posterior distal tibia." That meant my ankle was broken (distal tibia=end of the big bone in your shin). I thought it was a bad sprain and didn't want to go to the hospital, but my boss made me get x-rays. Turns out it was a 1-1.5" crack through the end of the bone. Luckily I didn't require surgery.

I spent 6 weeks in a cast, 2 weeks in a heavy brace, 2 more in a small brace. IT SUCKED. I ruptured a muscle in my shin, too (bonus: treatment for that was immobilizing the leg). My leg atrophied a LOT more than I thought it would and it's still not the same as the other leg, the consistency is all wrong. There was absolutely NO WAY I could walk on it and spent 3 days in a wheel chair before I got it set (a whole 'nother story).

I guess, though, if you're going to get hurt, at work is the best type of hurt to get.

/still get insane charley horses from that
//never had them before
 
ladynagini
2007-11-11 8:17:03 PM  
iwantamonkey: I got strep throat at camp when I was about 16. My mum and sister drove 2 hours to pick me up. Strep throat suuuucks. (Funnily enough, this is the same camp near L.A. where recently a goat was eaten by a mountain lion. Good thing it only got a goat--the cabins only have three walls and are square in shape. Easy pickins.)
I broke my finger in high school and my mother was called. It only took her about half an hour to get there. The first clinic we went to was closed... on a Friday afternoon.
My point is it doesn't take a genius child care worker to tell when something is majorly wrong... like a kid endlessly biatching or crying about pain, almost passing out, or having a fever of 105°F.

I went to a camp that had open faced cabins too (Camp Cleawox, which is on the Oregon coast). However, I don't think there were too many mountain lions where we were at. Black bears were more of a concern.
 
tonesskin
2007-11-11 8:19:19 PM  
DrForrester: Please tell me you're a janitor and not a teacher or administrator.

Please don't compare janitors to administrators. One makes the school better; the other gets paid for inventing problems.
 
MellieMc
2007-11-11 8:19:36 PM  
The report said the school nurse left a message for the mother that the son had injured his ankle.
 
AppleOptionEsc
2007-11-11 8:23:47 PM  
Barakku: AppleOptionEsc: Barakku: LordJiro: laars: When I was a kid I had to walk home from school, with two broken legs...uphill both ways, in the snow

FTFY

You guys got snow? In my day they sprayed lye all over the roads.

Yeah, we got snow, but then they decided 7 days wasn't long enough, so we did it 8 days a week. It wouldn't have been so bad if they cut the grass on the side of the road. The velociraptors were hard to see.

Pft...You're complaining about sight? We only got monochrome color back then, and the contrast was shot.

/Doesn't care enough to find relevant Calvin & Hobbes comic

Wait, wait, wait. You had a multiple specturm compound eye? All we had were simple eyes. Light and Dark. You were spoiled.
 
hotter than the ads
2007-11-11 8:24:49 PM  
lokis_mentor

When i was a kid, I had to walk twenty miles in the snow, with two broken legs, uphill both ways, barefoot. On a 'path' left by deer, full of deer crap. Frozen Explosive deer crap. - with a onion tied to my belt.

FTFE1 pt2
 
Andralynn
2007-11-11 8:25:35 PM  
Robdownsouth An x-ray machine in a high school locker room?? Wow I've never heard of that (: Is that common?

I think it would be hard to miss all the fractures you had of your right foot in an xray, maybe he just pretended to take an xray just to shut you up and get you on the field? Or his equipment was faulty, or the processing of the film was faulty?

Maybe you can sue his estate? Or the insurance company that held the doctors policy? I'm sure there has to be some recourse for people who have their doctors pass away and later learn they've had problems with their care.

In any case, that totally sucks ass dude. ):
 
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