Safer at school. New laws in two states protect students with diabetes.

摘要

Tracy Milligan didn't want her 4-year-old son, Jared, to be forced into a "diabetes school." Jared had been diagnosed with type 1 almost a year before he was due to start kindergarten, and because of his age, it was clear he would need help at school caring for his diabetes. In Jacksonville, Fla., where the Milligans live, this would have meant Jared couldn't attend his neighborhood school but would have to catch a bus to one designated for students with diabetes, where a full-time nurse was on staff. In other words, Jared wasn't welcome in 98 of the Duval County school district's 103 elementary schools. In the Milligans' case, the only way around the transfer was for a parent to come to JaKed's elementary school to give him insulin shots. So that's what his mom did.