Annoying though it is, probably better that people care too much than not enough though. We’ve had it both ways. My daughter does ballet, had to change dance schools when she was about 8 due to timing clashes with other things. At the first ballet school, after she was diagnosed I went to see the teacher to explain, and her reaction was the same as if I’d said my daughter had had a cold last week, which meant I never felt safe leaving her there unattended as it didn’t seem that the diabetes was being taken seriously. Whereas the teacher at the new school totally gets it, allows us to keep labelled cans of drinks in her fridge for hypos, used to ask me for permission whenever she wanted to give the class little chocolate treats at the end of shows (eventually got used to the fact that I always said yes and stopped asking). Used to phone me a lot but now knows how to deal with it if necessary.
Similarly, daughter has been having a lot of problems lately with non-epileptic seizures which we’re still trying to get to the bottom of, she has also developed Tourette syndrome which can cause quite a lot of havoc. Some teachers panic, some, who have obviously had first aid training, handle it much better. One teacher sent me quite a scathing email when she hadn’t done very well in a test, I replied that I was very sorry that she was having some health problems, what a shame that when a child doesn’t do well it is automatically assumed that they must be messing about or not paying attention instead of asking whether there is a problem. Then one day she had a seizure in his class which went on for so long that an ambulance was called, and he finally gets it now!
I think I’d rather have people checking up on her a bit too often than not taking it seriously!
