Hey, this is My
School!! Is it #1!!!!!
or is it #2??????
By
JOHN CARLSON
Register Columnist
02/13/2002
There's no way to make this pretty, so we might just as well blurt it out. Students at Central Elementary School in Nevada are having, uh, accidents, at an alarming pace, and the school nurse doesn't know what to make of it. "I'm not just talking about kindergartners," said nurse Lesa Davis. "It's first- and second-graders, too. Even third- and fourth-graders are having accidents on occasion." And, yes, since you're wondering, she's talking about both Number One and Number Two.
I told you this isn't pretty, but we're here to report, not hide, the facts. Davis insists this isn't something that's happening now and again. She's keeping track. She told the school board there were 78 instances of it during the first quarter of the school year. "That was bad enough," Davis said. "Then it got worse." The second quarter had 110 kiddies trotting down the hall - too late. That's 188 potty accidents. And they're barely into the second half of the school year. "I'm trying to figure out the reason," said Davis, who has been school nurse there 10 years. "This never happened before. Oh, we'd have an occasional accident. But this is something entirely new. A trend."
One school board member suggested taking a look at what's being served in the lunch room - a reasonable thing to consider. "I don't think that's it," Davis said. "If it was a lunch problem, we'd see this all at the same time. This is pretty much a daily thing. Sometimes three and four times a day."
Davis vows to continue looking for answers.