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[quote user="Becca W"]
I've had a teacher say "Oh, my cat is diabetic! I know everything you have to go through!" when I informed her that I was a diabetic.
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ROFL.
I'm sorry, but that's the most entertaining quote of someone saying they understand, I have heard...EVER.
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I'd have to agree. Ha.
[quote user="Dotimire"]
What are some teachers, clueless?! :)
[/quote]I think there are sooo many teacher's out there that are completly clueless (sadly). I have only been diabetic with Type 1 for a year, so I can't say too much. But from my own personal experience, when it came to my college profs, some of them just don't understand. When I first got diagnosed, I was really sick, and in and out of the hospital quite a bit. I would call or e-mail my profs whenever I knew I wasn't going to be able to make it to class, or would explain to them that I wasn't there cuz I was in the hospital or at the dr. One day when I was in a meeting with one of my prof's over my final paper he all of a sudden changed topics and said "Are you okay? How is your family life? Why have you really been gone? People don't get sick from diabetes, it is no big deal, there must be a bigger issue here. You miss school quite a lot." I was speechless. I was like you got to be kidding me. He didn't think that I had a valid excuse to miss his class, because apparently being newly diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 19 isn't good enough. That just blew my mind.
Hey, I am Allyson and I was diagnosed when I was ten in June of 2001.
When I was a freshman in high school, I actually had teacher threaten to take my pump away if it beeped one more time. And then after that class A hall aid tryed to grab it, because she thought that it was a cell phone.
Ok I am so saddened to hear how you all have been treated. Iti s a violation of your civil rights to have a teacher behave in such ways. You are protected under the Diasability act and the school can get in serious trouble if you file a violation. My daughter was asked if she was contagious by a classmate in kindergarten and told that her best friend only plays with her because she has diabetes. Trust me it starts young, even at age 5 people can be very cruel to a sweet little girl who wouldn't hurt a fly. Remember if you don't stand up for yourself no one else will do it for you. Demand respect and don't stop with the teacher if it doesn't end.
i told our most hated teacher in the school that i was low and then he started to tease me and say "now dont be sad! you should be happy! come on sMiLe!!!" and i was like What the hell. i need a juice box....let me leave. eventually i convinced him that i was NOT talking about being sad and went to get sugar.
man...hes such a loser...ya know the perv type right? were all afraid that one day some poor unsuspecting girl will wear a slightly too low shirt and he'll snap...move in packs girls, move in packs!
oh my goodness thats insane!! i have had problems with my spanish teacher. every time i would go to check my sugar before i got on the bus just mak'n sure i wasnt low so nothing would happen to me hed yell at me saying why i had to and throw fits every time i had to and would get mad. finally the problem was taken care of. i just wish people would understand!!
at the same time sometimes we have to understand them. i think i said this before but just like we have never experienced what it was like to be the jews when they were in the nazi camps, and we cant say "i understand". Or even think they are overreacting.. they dont know what it is like to be a diebetic so they can say i understand what its like, even thou they say they can.. just like some did with the jews, saying "i understand". we just got to give them a chance. they know nothing. just go on with our lives and try to not let people like that get us down. SOMETIMES, they just want to help, all we do is say thanks and move on with what we where doin... thats my advice. :)
i know what you mean! in 6th grade i lost my best friend because she was so afraid and disgusted by my diabetes....she told me that it was disgusting that i tested in class and that "dont you dare get any blood on me!!!!!!!" last time i saw her i remarked to my friend "yeah my diabetes had been pretty bad lately" and as we walked past her i coughed on her! u should have seen her face!!!
also my art teacher would nt let me go to get crakcers and juice from the nurse...i walked into class and felt reall really low so i aksed her to go to the nurse(i had no crakcers on me and she wouldnt let me test in class) she said well dear its not really nessacary to go to the nurse and to just stay for attendance (even though i told her it was very nessacary). i felt myself drop lower by the minute...she didnt let me go to the nurse until fifteen minutes later and told me i better be back in five or i had detention... i tested and was 30. when my mom called and yelled at the school she had to aapologize but told that "i should have told her that it was important" grrr
I had a third grade teacher who used to get a class mate (a weasel class mate) to stand next to the broken water fountain in the class room and rat on me if, when my blood sugar was high, and I was thirsty, I put my mouth too near the water, where it came out. She wouldn't let me leave the class room to drink from a working water fountain, the jerk.
At the same time, I am going to play devil's advocate here...some teachers are overworked and very tired. They have a thankless job where little kids treat them like (fill in the blank) _______, and they don't get enough help from administration to do their jobs well. Then mom and dad or whoever comes charging in the minute that they make a mistake in the midst of trying to handle too much, threatening about lawsuits, etc.
I believe that disabilities should be respected. I suffered at the hands of that nasty teacher. But at the same time, most situations, even when someone is horribly stupid, are just that...situations. Someone once said on here that being right gives us the right to be patient as well. Rights notwithstanding, why not give a person a chance to learn something different instead of frying them, calling administration, the first time they mess up?
Please note that I am not talking about threat to life and limb OR situations where reasonable accomodations should be made (especially when they have already been stated for the RECORD).
The world needs teachers, desperately. Teachers, in turn, need appropriate resources to do their job, like adequate pay, administrative support, opportunities to learn, and those other niceties like...oh...respect and sleep. They don't often get the last two things. And if they're doing half of what society insists they be able to do perfectly, they don't get the last two things, often.
I can't believe I am standing up for teachers, but darn it, someone has to cut them some slack. Teaching in a public school with children who play target practice with sour attitudes, cell phones, etc. takes Herculean strength of will.
I have this teacher who was like my fave teacher. I totally dislike him now, though! One day I had a really bad low that wouldn’t go up in Bio class. I had had Gym the previous period, so I thought it was too much excercise (I tested and it was 8.3 m.mol/l before the period started). I asked the teacher if I could eat and then I ate a whole bunch of sweets, followed by a low GI sandwich, since it was almost lunch break, thinking I would test again in break and inject then if neccesary. When I tested again I was LO and I wouldn’t stop shaking. I went to the cafeteria and got some more food and extra emergency glucose and some coke, since I was still going low without any logical reason, my Basal and Bollusses where fine, I hadn’t overdosed or anything... I looked like I was playing chubby bunny all break long as I was stuffing food in my mouth. My BG still wouldn’t go up. The bell rang and since we don’t have a school nurse or anything I went to my next class. I had Language with one of my fave teachers, who I’d told about my diabetes and he was a-ok with it then. When I came into class I was still busy eating, I was still shaking and my BG was still LO and it was like an hour since I had felt low in Bio and a few lunches, cokes etc. later. I wasn’t bothering any one. The teacher started freaking out and yelled at me in front of the whole class saying that I wasn’t allowed to eat in his class. Even after he’d previously said I could eat, test, etc. in his class any time. I was so low at that moment that I couldn’t even get my book out of my bag. My classmates sensed that I was low immediately and a few tried to tell the teacher that I needed to eat. He wouldn’t listen and sent me to stand in the hallway, he wouldn’t even let me take a friend with me! I started crying and went out... I was still LO and as I walked to the door I collapsed on the floor and was laying unconcious in front of the whole class. At least that taught him a lesson! HA! So they gave me a Glucagon and I was fine in a few minutes and he couldn’t stop apologising for being such a yerk...
My teacher pulled me out of class one time because my sugar was low and was like "What do I do? Can I help you out? Do you need to go to the nurse?". She just started freaking out and she was the one that ended up passing out! My sugar was only 69 too.
My health teacher also pulled me out of class and asked "If diabetes was contagious." She should have known she was the health teacher! Some teachers have some serious issues!
~Brittany~
hahahaahha "is diabetes contagious." that just makes me giggle.
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hahahaahha "is diabetes contagious." that just makes me giggle.
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Yes, you should get checked right now.
I totally agree, I was diagnosed over christmas break, and when I came back, I was fresh out of the hospital.. got out like the day b4 school started up again. and I knew I needed to eat in class, but my teacher made me walk all the way to the med room ( other side of school) every time I ate or checked my sugar, and the med room had an automatic lock on the outside of it, and was soundproof, so if I fainted I was basically screwed. after a bit a gave up on that and Just checked my sugar and ate in the bathroom. it didnt matter cuz my school had no nurse. it was seriously dumb
I read an article about a diabetic girl about age 14 or something, and she was on the pump, and she was in her schools cafeteria and she bent over to code in her food and her priciple saw what she was doing, and demanded for her to give it too him, she told him it was her pump, her life support, but he didnt belive that it wasnt a pager, so she had to unhook it and give it too him, she promptly ran out of the caf crying, and an old teacher saw her, and asked wats wrong, she explained to her, and the teacher went over to the principle and demanded it back, and the girl got it back thank goodness..
and If you read m other reply to this post, ou will see what happened to me.
hey, my drug and Alcohol teacher said in front of my class that as I diabetic on insulin I was taking drugs, and so for a month my ENTIRE school ( no exceptions, minus the staff) was calling me a druggie. it ended after about a month, because I never responded to their comments so they gave up. and my school had a nurse, and she kept asking me questions when i was slow and wouldnt let me leave, so I ended up being a 1.2 (canadian) and nearly passed out.. after that she left my school, and I had no nurse untill I graduated)
What a dunce. Good to see the ineptitude that was your drug and alcohol teacher. Insulin is a hormone you subgenius.
thats what happened to me, originally I ate in class ( for like the first hr) but the dumb classmates kept raising their hands and saying " Katrina's eating in class, its not fair!" and I was in gr.6 at the time, by the next day about 7 parents complained that theyre kids werent allowed to eat in class while I was.. this resulted in me taking care of anything medically related ( including eat) in the bathroom.. I ended up failing sevral tests cuz My lvls were off and I couldnt think straght, and my teacher didnt belive me. thank goodness my 7th grade tracher belived me, so if my lvls were off and I needed to take care of thm, hed let me work on the test after since I was gone most of the test time
something (sort of) similar happened to me in 5th grade. i was a crossing guard and a parent complained about having a diabetic on the squad, so i was taken off. my parents threatened a lawsuit and i was made captain the next semester :D
i can't say i've experienced any true discrimination because of diabetes. i've had some ignorance and truly stupid comments, but no one has been all that mean to me. there were plenty of other things to tease me about... like my headgear. middle school was awesome thanks to headgear....
That's pleasant. Yes I am faking the symptoms and effects of an autoimmune disease. Be here next week when I act out malaria. A teacher is in a position to assist students (ideally) and then they demonstrate such obtuse ignorance.