Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Standard claims local school endangering pupil health
Jade Goody's mother today attacked a Haringey school for banning jabs against cervical cancer, the disease that killed the reality TV star at the age of 27.
Jackiey Budden spoke after the Standard revealed Hornsey School for Girls headteacher Carol Jones had suspended the vaccination programme for 12- and 13 year-olds because it disrupted lessons, with pupils finding it "hard to settle" and getting "hysterical" after having jabs.
Full story in the Evening Standard
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
-
Pupil health? Women die from this and it's serious enough that there is a vaccination programme.
It's just a bloody vaccine!!! Hysterical? Nice one parents. You don't just get this from shagging you know.
-
-
I spoke to a friend this morning who works at GCA. They used to have the hysteria problem. They get around it now by not telling the girls the actual immunisation date when they sign the consent form. At some random point in the future they go and grab a half dozen of them out of class and it's all over before they get a chance to so much as say "Oh My God Miss!".
-
Permalink Reply by pamish on
-
I recall all the class lining up to get the BCG jab against smallpox. No refusals but a few wobbles. Result - smallpox is now almost extinct.
Only question - why not jab the boys too (expense is the current answer) - they are the vectors for HPV for heterosexual girls.
-
Permalink Reply by John D on
-
And the Polio jab - thank goodness. I still remember the scares in the 50s when swimming pools were closed because of the danger. But I don't remember any squeamishness. We used to stab each other with compasses.
-
-
I think the squeamishness comes from the nature of HPV's transmission and some quarters painting it as a license for promiscuousness.
-
-
The whole point of giving this jab at this age is to get to them before they 'have sex' (recognising that they they don't all make it to 16), the opposite of encouraging them. People can be quite unbelievably stupid.
-
-
Is this the Carol Jones who used to be a Homeopath in Stoke Newington? She's listed here. I wonder if all Homeopaths share the same view of immunisation. Either way, the suspension of this programme needs far more justification than that the pupils find it hard to settle or it's a pain to organise. Good grief.
-
Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
-
Wow this this woman sound's crazy. thanks for the heads up HOL. I'll definitely not be sending my son there.
-
-
As I've said before, I'm really uncomfortable with us discussing local teaching issues on here. Mumsnet is the place for that.
-
-
Loads of pushy dads on Mumsnet. Not in the slightest bit metrosexual either, some of them.
© 2024 Created by Hugh.
Powered by
