They sent an elementary student home today because he stank at the school

[madinmaryland]

my wife works at. They had to send the child home because he stank and they told the parent to bathe the child.

First time I had heard of that.

[Ptah]

1. I'm surprised it's the first you heard of that.

We bathe here quite often.

[kwassa]

2. It might be an ongoing issue

We had one at this school that had the most horrible body odor. Not just one day, but every day. I know the school talked to the parents about hygiene.

[mcctatas]

3. I hope they didn't tell the child why they were sending him home

(or her), poor kid :(

[madinmaryland]

5. Well,

my wife is the administrator in the office who has to deal with stuff like that. The child should have been sent to the health office (nurse) first and then the nurse call the parent. I have no idea if the child was told or not.

Could he have been tutching the but??

[rcrush]

4. maybe now he wont have to get sent home from a job for being too stinky

I've had to do that at least 3 times. Some employees think its ok to come to work smelling like big foots ass.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. I hope that was the right thing to do.

Sometimes kids are stinky because home's not a functional environment. That dysfunction may be anything from living without full washing facilities/no money for the laundromat to parents who are addicts or abusers.

There were stinky kids in my elementary school.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

7. That is heartbreaking

When I was a kid the school nurse had extra clothes for kids who had accidents. Couldn't they have taken this kid and cleaned him up in the nurse's station and given him some clean clothes instead of humiliating him like that? That's not something you are going to live down in a long fucking time. Especially if other students are aware of the situation.

[madinmaryland]

8. That's what upset my wife. He should have been sent to the Nurse's office.

If there was an issue, the nurse would have contacted the parents. I don't know what the smell was, whether it was BO or an accident. Either way, it's sad that the child was put in that position.

[Fleshdancer]

9. it happens unfortunately

I have a friend who used to be a teacher. He told me about this one boy who had so much potential (genius level intelligence), but he was neglected at home. One day the kids were making fun of him for his dirty clothes and his BO so my friend took him to the locker room to wash up and then handed him some clean clothes. The next day, the boy comes to school wearing dirty clothes again, so my friend told him to bring his laundry to school and he would wash them and bring them back the next day. :(

His conclusion is that most of the neglect was due to drug use.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. It happens. Sometimes kids aren't reminded to wash up by their folks, and they

either forget to remind themselves, just don't care, or are really too young to be in charge of that for themselves. :(

[nytemare]

11. Hey may have been a Redskins fan

and just wanted to show solidarity with his team by stinking.

:D

Kidding aside, that is a little sad. Poor kid.

[AwakeAtLast]

12. Teachers in my building

have had the awful job of inquiring about bathing habits and then counseling the parents on the proper way to do it.

It breaks my heart when I see these kids. :cry:

[noamnety]

13. That's something our staff brings up with the counselor

or social services worker. It's been brought up in staff meetings as a potential sign the student may be homeless (no shower/laundry facilities). I mean brought up in a generic "clues to look for" way, not discussing a particular student.