School mistakes diabetic teen as drunk

[Northerner]

STOCKTON, CA - A Stockton mother claims school officials mistook her daughter's diabetic emergency as a symptom of drug and alcohol abuse.

Lincoln High sophomore School Kristian Logan, 16, has diabetes. During lunch, she started to feel sick.

"My stomach was hurting," Kristian explained. "And I was just sitting there with my head down on my phone."

The next thing Kristian knew, she was being escorted to the office with a room full of administrators, teachers and cops.

"I was nervous. My hands started to sweat," Kristian said. "My breathing, everything changed really fast. I was really scared."

http://www.news10.net/news/article/260315/2/Mom-School-mistakes-diabetic-teen-as-drunk

Ignorance.

 

[Redkite]

😱 Surely the school were aware she was diabetic?

 

[Northerner]

😱 Surely the school were aware she was diabetic?

You would think so given that she tested and was high, but it sounds like they confused what 'high' means to a diabetic 🙄

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Also the reporting is bad as the being drunk side of things would surely be hypo?
Must admit I have no idea what it's like to be that high as never experienced it.

 

[Northerner]

Also the reporting is bad as the being drunk side of things would surely be hypo?
Must admit I have no idea what it's like to be that high as never experienced it.

Probably the only time I have been really high was at diagnosis and I was totally out of it, couldn't speak, hear or think properly, so possibly could be misinterpreted as drunk