School forgot to give medication

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Daughter comes home from school and says that they forgot to give her her dose of antibiotics today at school.

When dad collected the teacher said oh I'm sorry, and turned to my daughter and said 'Did you remind any of the staff today to give it to you?'

Now I'm a pretty chill mum, and whilst not the end of the world as she's had the second dose when she got home, It's kind of not the point.

AIBU for being annoyed they turned the blame to my child asking if she reminded them (7 yo)?!

I'm inclined to just leave it but part of me wonders if that had been a diabetes medication for example that had been forgotten it might have been different outcome.

WWYD?

Yes I filled in the medicine form with timings and days to cover, stir in fridge etc

So yes although no 'biggy' like some are trying to say on this thread, when you have a child with a nasty bacterial infection that requires antibiotics I am right to be a little annoyed.

Have you looked at your schools policy? They should have a medical one.

If you feel strongly to complain it could stop it happening to someone else. You'll be very unlikely to get an apology but hopefully behind the scenes they might organize themselves better.

Nobodies trying to say it's no biggie but there might be 30 kids in a class with things going on i myself have occasionally forgotten to give an antibiotics dose to my own children and I only have two kids ,yes it's annoying
But if my son forgot his insulin dose it's far more serious than just annoying and there should be things in place so that doesn't happen in schools.

Comparing this to diabetes is ridiculous. Any pupil with diabetes will have an app that sends a notification when medicine is needed, so it won't be forgotten. Other serious illnesses will have similar systems in place. This isn't a serious case.

It's human error and that's all there really is to it. The school should have managed it but they didn't because someone forgot. Not ideal but is was an error.

I am finding the constant references to class teachers infuriating though. I appreciate in a few schools (and it surely is very few) teachers might get involved but giving medicine is not in my remit as a teacher. If it is the responsibility of someone else in school to do it, it will not be on my radar. I am busy with my own responsibilities. I do the jobs my line manager, the head, has set out for me to do just like other people do in theirs. I can only hope other people on the team are doing their best too so that overall we do the best by the children we care for. That doesn't mean the class teacher doing everything and in fact that's exactly what leads to errors like in this case.

I think YABU. I do think a 7 year old should remember. At my children's school, medicine needs to be kept at the office, and the child would go to the office to take the medicine. Mine would have managed that fine. Children with diabetes/asthma/severe allergies all have detailed plans which are displayed in the medical room in the office and all staff will be aware of the ongoing plan, completely different and in no way related to your child's one off round of antibiotics.