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dak4f2 t1_j62cirb wrote

Reply to comment by Chelular07 in Boarding school ignored teen’s sickness complaints before she died, ex-staff say by ninjascotsman

>Also, I’m sorry but any place that charges $12000 per kid per month, then pays employees $13 and hour, is shady as fuck imo.

Yes, and this applies to nursing homes too.

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maddieterrier t1_j63lbuv wrote

“Only medical staff members could recommend that a child be taken to a hospital, but to do so generally would have required a staff member to leave campus, putting them out of sync with state-mandated ratios of adults to children, the former staff members said.”

This kid died because they had the bare minimum number of staff.

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torpedoguy t1_j645z5p wrote

While they did have a skeleton crew they shouldn't have had, ratios like that are for normal operations.

In an emergency, taking a kid to the hospital takes priority - you're not gonna lose your accreditation or get fined for something like that... well, maybe soon under Abbott or Desantis but even then not yet AFAIK.

Otherwise you'd have to toss kids back onto the fire when the building's burning down if any of the teachers got stuck in. Which, again, entirely feasible with the legislators we have, but to my knowledge not law yet; even DeVos didn't manage to make that official.

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