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After the Daily News revealed that a school officials actually forbade school deans to call 911 (in order to lower crime stats) only for a 14-year-old student who suffered a stroke to wait 90 minutes for medical attention, the Department of Education is launching an investigation. The News now reports that Schools Chancellor Joel Klein will launch a probe, saying, "We'll look into it and take appropriate action."
A memo from Assistant Principal Guy Venezia dated April 12 had told school deans not to call 911. Two weeks later, Mariya Fatima vomited and collapse in her school hallway on April 27 around 7:20AM. Her family sued the school system, noting that 911 wasn't called until 8:54AM, suggesting that her injuries could have been less severe had medical help immediately arrived. From the Daily News:
About a month after Mariya's stroke, Venezia sent out another memo, this one announcing that deans "are sanctioned to make 911 calls." But he also told the deans, "Do not use the word assault to describe a physical altercation."Currently, Fatima has lost use of her right hand and leg and her reading is currently at the fifth-grade level.The apparent effort to drive down the crime stats failed, since the school was put on the state's persistently dangerous list this summer and could face ramifications under the No Child Left Behind Act.
"The impact-school status did lead to some crazy overreactions, and obviously this is one of them," said James Eterno, the teachers union chapter leader at the school.
Klein told the News, "Our principals are reporting faithfully and honestly. In a system with 1,450 schools, you can always have aberrations, but don't jump to conclusions from that." Still, if this is how some school administrators may act, why not let students have cellphones so they can call 911 for medical emergencies?
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Two things:
- The Assistant Principal desperately needs to be fired.
- The deans need to exercise some common sense.
If a student vomits and collapse in her school hallway (I'm assuming she was unconscious, the article does not say) you don't ask what the policy is, you get help.As for Students with Cell phones: That's another issue entirely. I bet the staff had cell phones and they didn't call for help. Also, school entrances tend to have Pay phones...
"After the Daily News revealed that a school officials actually forbade..."
"A school officials". Nice.
What is up with all the spelling, pluralization and missing definite/indefinite article mistakes? This is the 3rd article with obvious mistakes.
One of the reasons why schools are not adequately staffed with qualified registered nurses is because schools RNs are not allowed to call 911 without prior OK by the school principal. Not only do our schools fail in providing safe environment and adequate education to our kids, they also deny/delay the delivery of emergency care to sick kids.
Let's face it. NYC education system sucks. Teachers, irresponsible parents, awful gangsta kids, and administrators conspire to a failed education system.