Parents of students with medical needs told the Boston City Council yesterday that their children’s safety at school shouldn’t be a matter of life and death.
“It is just a matter of time before someone dies from an incident that quickly could have been remedied,” parent Maria Dolorico said.
Dolorico told city councilors she would go to the Hurley K-8 school every year to train her teachers how to use an EpiPen if her daughter went into anaphylactic shock because the school didn’t have a full time nurse for nearly five years.
“It’s doesn’t feel right that a parent has to train the teachers how to save a life,” Dolorico said. “Some teachers don’t want that responsibility, and I can’t blame them.”
Parents met with city and school officials Monday at a hearing called by At-large Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George to urge them to look at placing full-time nurses and psychologists in every Boston public school.
Boston Public Schools nurse Jonathan Haines asked, “Will I be at the wrong school at the wrong time to save a student’s life? And who wants to live with that question?”