After I published What Schools Witness When Children Are Taken, I heard from school nurses who recognized the scene immediately. The absence that appears without explanation, without coordination, without closure. The archived health record has no transfer destination. The medications are still sitting in the cabinet. The care plan that remains in the system even… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: The Accumulation We Rarely Name – Moral Injury

Brady United Against Gun Violence has been nominated for a Project for Awesome 2026 Award, and I am adding my vote in support of their work. Please join me! For those of us who practice at the intersection of child health and public health, the reason is not complicated. Since 2020, firearm injury has been… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Support Brady United for the Project for Awesome 2026 Grant – Because Protecting Children Is Not Optional

There is no formal notification to the school when a child is detained. The absence just appears in the system. Attendance marked. The health record remains open. Medications are missed, and refills are not picked up. A teacher asks if anyone has heard from the family, and the answer is the same each time: no,… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: What Schools Witness When Children Are Taken

In school health offices and communities across the country, measles hasn’t simply “come back.” It has been accelerating, steadily and predictably, as vaccination rates decline and evidence-based guidance is weakened, blurred, or treated as optional. That reality is made clear in recent interviews with Dr. Arthur Lavin,  a retired pediatrician and the founder of Grandparents… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Measles Did Not Suddenly Return. It Has Been Accelerating.

What Children Absorb Doesn’t Stay Abstract Children do not arrive at school untouched by the world around them. They absorb messages, about who belongs, who is suspect, and who is safe, at home, online, in the car, and in the news. Those messages don’t stay abstract or harmless. They show up as words in classrooms,… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Anti-Immigrant Messages Are Breaking Our Children