Having To Strip For The School Nurse

Once in high school, I was in the nurse's office with two girls for our yearly check ups. All that was included was a vision test, height, weight and blood pressure. Everything was pretty normal until one of the girls sarcastically commented about a bruise on the other girl. She asked, "Is that the spot where your mother hit you?" The nurse instructed the girl with the bruise to go into the other room. The other girl taunted, "She's going to make you take your shirt off!" The nurse shut the door and we waited awhile in the lobby of the nurse's office. When they came out, the girl seemed very unhappy and glared at the other girl. The nurse finnished up and sent the three of us back to class. I never did find out what happened behind closed doors.

What a cruel trick to force someone to have to strip for the school nurse. She must have known that this is what would happen. Did this ever happen to anyone on this board. Is this a common high school prank to embarrass a rival?

As I found to my cost, teenagers can be very cruel and devious.

I have less of the problem with the pain in the ass friend, than the system that allows "THE SYSTEM" or "DA MAN" to butt their way into family life. They have no business there.

The world isn't perfect, but the authorities have WAY overstepped their bounds in recent years.

I would never report a parent for any type of abuse unless I saw it happen with my own eyes. . . . and then still probably would not report it because I wouldn't know the history of the family and how it works. I'm sick and tired of people calling yelling at their kids, or adults yelling at their spouses, or spanking their children, abuse. Not to mention the bruises a child might get by injuring themselves during their playtime activities that are nobody's business.

Don't get this Libertarian started with where the government should get involved with anything other than what the constitution says it is supposed to do, and it should probably do a lot LESS than what the constitution says it should do.

Switchablesusie, you are so, so right.

The instance described seems indeed much like teenagers acting the way they usually do - with little or no sense of the mischief they can cause by acting up and trying to get the better of their peers.

That said, since not all parents are pargons of responsibility and since excesses of parental authority are not by any means unheard of, it seems that some sort of overriding authority will, at times, need to step in to prevent abuses that unfortunately do occur in family situations.

The laws that govern this matter have not come about from government interference simply because governments like to interfere in family life, but rather by way of grass roots campaigning from citizens and from victims of such abuse in the past.