Pay Attention!
Cliffton Hassam, 16, was in class at East Ridge High School in Clermont, Fla., when the little box on his belt started beeping. Substitute teacher Richard Maline demanded that Hassam hand it over, but Hassam refused. So Maline grabbed it and yanked. It wasn’t a cell phone or pager, as Maline apparently figured, but rather an insulin pump; the beeping was to alert Hassam, a diabetic, that his blood sugar was at a dangerous level. Hassam got the device back and hooked up before he suffered ill effects, and Maline was fired by the school. “When we train our substitutes, that’s one of the items we cover,” a school spokesman said. “We specifically train our substitutes on this particular device.” (Orlando Sentinel) ...Yeah, but did you give him a quiz afterward to ensure he had met the “learning objectives”?
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