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Boy banned from school for having bad genes. Welcome to the future.
It’s good public health sense to have a kid not go to school if they’re carrying some really nasty, highly contagious disease, but one 11 year old in California was removed from school simply because he carries the gene for cystic fibrosis, even though he doesn’t have the disease.
Last week, Coleman Chadam was told he would have to transfer to a school three miles away because he may pose a health risk to another student at the school who does have the disease.
Cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease, causes the body to create a thick mucous that clogs the lungs and can cause deadly infections. Though the condition is not contagious, people with it can endanger each other through bacterial cross contamination.
“In general, we would prefer that there not be more than one cystic fibrosis patient in a school,” Dr. Thomas Keens, the head of the cystic fibrosis center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, told the Today show.
But Coleman doesn’t actually have the disease and his parents say the school is overreacting. Jennifer Chadam says her son has attended other schools with students with cystic fibrosis and it has never been a problem. In fact, Coleman has never had any medical problems related to the illness.
The school was only alerted that he carried the gene when his parents listed it on the medical form at the beginning of the school year. “The school district freaked out,” Jennifer told the San Francisco Chronicle. In fact, doctors say he is not even at risk of developing the disease however, school officials are unmoved.
“I was sad but at the same time I was mad because I understood that I hadn’t done anything wrong,” Colman told Today. He added: “It feels like I’m being bullied in a way that is not right.”
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curvaceousvoodoo reblogged this from iheartchaos and added:
WHAT UTTER BULLSHIT This is...bad part of living in
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queenjag reblogged this from thiasthedark and added:
After reading the article, and looking up the disease, well, both sides have good points. Even if the kid has a very low...
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vienoir reblogged this from nekotachiikimashou and added:
American stupidity knows no bounds?
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loveandentropy reblogged this from iheartchaos and added:
GENETICS DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY. Jesus fuck, if we could transfer genes from one person
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Lol what are you serious.
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peel-a-potato-with-a-potato reblogged this from piedrabbit and added:
What the actual fuck.
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piedrabbit reblogged this from theevilblackbunny and added:
Regarding what the kid said: There is no “right way” to bully someone. They’re all wrong.
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vices-of-a-dead-man reblogged this from iheartchaos and added:
Cystic Fibrosis, and this is fucking bullshit! I am
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anneofgreengayballs reblogged this from halfdigested-ashesofstevejobs and added:
The thing that sucks the most is he literally poses no threat to that other kid; he doesn’t have the disease at all and...
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This has to be against somebody’s law…
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jesus christ, I CANNOT believe this. Fucking horrific. That poor kid.
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What the FUCK.
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jfc
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He has the GENE, not the DISEASE, those are two DIFFERENT THINGS. FFS get your science teacher to explain this shit to...
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