Safety & Health
Parking Lot Safety
When driving children to school….REMEMBER…
Drop off and pick up your child as close to school as possible.
Always make sure that all passengers wear their safety belts.
Keep your seat belt on, until you are ready to exit the vehicle.
Obey all traffic signals and school zones.
Do not store loose or leave objects in the passenger area of your vehicle.
Always have your child exit the vehicle with the school on the same side of the vehicle.
Be extra cautious during inclement weather.
Health Programs
Did you know what is included in our school’s comprehensive health programs? They include policies and goals set by local school boards in partnership with parents, students, educators and health care providers in order to develop, implement and evaluate comprehensive school health programs.
Health curricula taught by qualified educators for students in preschool through 12th grade that includes:
Accident prevention & safetyCommunity healthConsumer healthDisease control & preventionEnvironmental healthFamily life educationMental & emotional healthPersonal healthNutritionSelf-esteem buildingSubstance abuse preventionViolence preventionSkin Cancer
When Maureen Reagan first noticed a spot on the back of her right thigh more than five years ago, she wasn’t too concerned. But then it started looking “gushy,” as she put it — and Reagan knew it was time to see a doctor. When she did, in the winter of 1996, the nuisance became a grim diagnosis: malignant melanoma.
After surgery and a year of wrenching treatment with the drug Interferon, Reagan was optimistic. But last fall the melanoma was back. By spring, doctors had detected the cancer in her groin, right arm, liver and a rib; by July, it had invaded her brain. Despite aggressive treatment and a crusading spirit, Reagan died last week at home. During her battle against melanoma, she made a point of going public and warning others. With better awareness, she wrote in The Skin Cancer Foundation Journal in 1999, “we can stop this epidemic dead. It’s really very simple.”
Doctors could not agree more. The incidence of skin cancer has been on a worrisome upward trajectory in this country, affecting more than 1 million Americans a year. Melanoma — the least common, but most deadly form of the disease — strikes at more than twice the rate (14.3 cases per 100,000 people) it did three decades ago.
Melanoma is one of the most common cancers in Americans between the ages of 25 and 29 — when other leading cancers, like lung and colon, rarely occur. This year, the American Cancer Society estimates, 51,400 people will be diagnosed with melanoma and 7,800 will die from it. - Reprinted from Newsweek, August 20, 2001
Learn more at http://www.msnbc.com/news/612834.asp