why wasn’t there testing BEFORE the bat was taken into a school? if it can’t be tested before, then it should NOT be allowed in the schools! its a shame that you can’t even trust schools to keep kids safe from things like this! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING…SERIOUSLY???????
The headline makes me think they should have vaccinated the bat before touching all of those dirty school children. Terrible. Does anyone actually edit this site?
I have to agree with you. What was the parent thinking to have brought in a dead bat in the first place?
They are like mice, rats, etc., that are known to carry rabies, plague, and so on. I am just as confused as to why the school would have allowed that type of presentation at their school, knowing this potential risk.
It appears to me from what the article indicates, that the school has “since set a policy requiring that anyone visiting the school obtain a visitor pass” …. Excuse me for asking, but isn’t that a requirement at all schools since the Columbine incident???
Okay… maybe not in the Po-Dunk towns in Montana… but I digress… It sounds like this parent brought the bat onto the premises without the schools’ blessing. And, after the “bat was left out of the bag” they tried to fix it by making a new rule.
And what nit-wit would let any kid touch a dead animal without confirming it was
(1) obtained from a laboratory, or supplier specializing in lab animals
(2) free of disease and
(3) Parents were given prior knowledge that their children would be exposed to the vermin
Maybe that would have raised a couple of flags before this idiot parent created this disaster. GMAB – They don’t even use frogs anymore in science classes
Just curious – can anyone clarify – Why would the school’s liability policy pay for this incident and not her own homeowners policy since she was the one that directly caused the problem?
yep, poor bat! it died from looking at humans all day long. diseased?! well, it was a form of a natural defense against the touching of my skin w/o the proper notification of the alleged school students being allowed to find that bats are just like any other creature; can be dirty and collect diseases.
school has to take the liability since they allowed the incident on premises. problem: how does it resolve that you have to have a visitor pass? you could still have gotten in to visit and present the DEAD animal. what is needed a prescreening of the event – what was expected, dead or alive animals, clean/unclean, disease free, permission slips from parents to touch these animals.
now lets turn the issue: what if these kids were on a field trip to a petting zoo and they got sick (possibly including rabies) from touching the animal?
1) the owner of the property would have insurance.
2) school field trip – school insurance covering it as well.
so why the fear? it could happen at anytime. in this case, it’s severe because all the kids who came in contact has to take the series of shots. so if only 1/2 of it’s covered under the insurance, that makes the city then responsible for the other half.
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why wasn’t there testing BEFORE the bat was taken into a school? if it can’t be tested before, then it should NOT be allowed in the schools! its a shame that you can’t even trust schools to keep kids safe from things like this! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING…SERIOUSLY???????
The headline makes me think they should have vaccinated the bat before touching all of those dirty school children. Terrible. Does anyone actually edit this site?
I have to agree with you. What was the parent thinking to have brought in a dead bat in the first place?
They are like mice, rats, etc., that are known to carry rabies, plague, and so on. I am just as confused as to why the school would have allowed that type of presentation at their school, knowing this potential risk.
It appears to me from what the article indicates, that the school has “since set a policy requiring that anyone visiting the school obtain a visitor pass” …. Excuse me for asking, but isn’t that a requirement at all schools since the Columbine incident???
Okay… maybe not in the Po-Dunk towns in Montana… but I digress… It sounds like this parent brought the bat onto the premises without the schools’ blessing. And, after the “bat was left out of the bag” they tried to fix it by making a new rule.
And what nit-wit would let any kid touch a dead animal without confirming it was
(1) obtained from a laboratory, or supplier specializing in lab animals
(2) free of disease and
(3) Parents were given prior knowledge that their children would be exposed to the vermin
Maybe that would have raised a couple of flags before this idiot parent created this disaster. GMAB – They don’t even use frogs anymore in science classes
Just curious – can anyone clarify – Why would the school’s liability policy pay for this incident and not her own homeowners policy since she was the one that directly caused the problem?
yep, poor bat! it died from looking at humans all day long. diseased?! well, it was a form of a natural defense against the touching of my skin w/o the proper notification of the alleged school students being allowed to find that bats are just like any other creature; can be dirty and collect diseases.
school has to take the liability since they allowed the incident on premises. problem: how does it resolve that you have to have a visitor pass? you could still have gotten in to visit and present the DEAD animal. what is needed a prescreening of the event – what was expected, dead or alive animals, clean/unclean, disease free, permission slips from parents to touch these animals.
now lets turn the issue: what if these kids were on a field trip to a petting zoo and they got sick (possibly including rabies) from touching the animal?
1) the owner of the property would have insurance.
2) school field trip – school insurance covering it as well.
so why the fear? it could happen at anytime. in this case, it’s severe because all the kids who came in contact has to take the series of shots. so if only 1/2 of it’s covered under the insurance, that makes the city then responsible for the other half.