Monica
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Parent of person with diabetes
Hi all
Fiona came home on Monday, telling us that she had to give a lesson on Diabetes together with 3 other girls. The teacher gave her all the material they are supposed to use. Well, Fiona wasn?t very happy with the material!!!! I haven?t seen it, as she wasn?t allowed to bring it home. Apparently, it says that teens with D have to have a strict diet provided by the doctor and a strict exercise regime. They have to have a morning snack and an evening snack ( No mention of an afternoon snack).
Fiona tells me she went to see the teacher to tell her she wasn?t happy about this. The teacher just said, oh I just picked the first website to copy it off.
Fiona worried that she had to work from this sheet. So I told her she should do what she thinks right ? go and have another chat with teach before the lesson. I also told her to take the carbs and cals book, but she forgot.
Well, the lesson went really well.
Fiona told them the truth 😉 She said that teens with D can eat everything except poison and food prepared with poison, lol. All the girls had a sheet that they had to fill in from the info Fiona was giving them. So they got a bit confused as to what to write in the box with the question: ?What can?t Diabetics eat?? Teacher insisted they couldn?t leave it blank, so Fiona told them to write ?nothing?.
She didn?t tell her school friends anything from the work sheet. Also the glucose levels were supposed to be in the 100s, which luckily Fiona knew was the American version. She said that if the reading really was that high in this country they?d be dead. She told them that the levels should be between 4-10 (which used to be right for Carol), but the teacher corrected her and said between 4-7.
Apparently this info sheet the teacher prepared was copied from Wikipedia.
Fiona also told me that they had to do something with Judaism and that info about that was wrong too, according to the Jewish girl in her class.
Fiona came home on Monday, telling us that she had to give a lesson on Diabetes together with 3 other girls. The teacher gave her all the material they are supposed to use. Well, Fiona wasn?t very happy with the material!!!! I haven?t seen it, as she wasn?t allowed to bring it home. Apparently, it says that teens with D have to have a strict diet provided by the doctor and a strict exercise regime. They have to have a morning snack and an evening snack ( No mention of an afternoon snack).
Fiona tells me she went to see the teacher to tell her she wasn?t happy about this. The teacher just said, oh I just picked the first website to copy it off.
Fiona worried that she had to work from this sheet. So I told her she should do what she thinks right ? go and have another chat with teach before the lesson. I also told her to take the carbs and cals book, but she forgot.
Well, the lesson went really well.
Fiona told them the truth 😉 She said that teens with D can eat everything except poison and food prepared with poison, lol. All the girls had a sheet that they had to fill in from the info Fiona was giving them. So they got a bit confused as to what to write in the box with the question: ?What can?t Diabetics eat?? Teacher insisted they couldn?t leave it blank, so Fiona told them to write ?nothing?.
She didn?t tell her school friends anything from the work sheet. Also the glucose levels were supposed to be in the 100s, which luckily Fiona knew was the American version. She said that if the reading really was that high in this country they?d be dead. She told them that the levels should be between 4-10 (which used to be right for Carol), but the teacher corrected her and said between 4-7.
Apparently this info sheet the teacher prepared was copied from Wikipedia.
Fiona also told me that they had to do something with Judaism and that info about that was wrong too, according to the Jewish girl in her class.
