PT>  KU>     The touchiness was largely because many people felt (quite
PT>  KU> rightly IMHO) that it wasn't the school's business to do this in 
PT> the 
PT>  KU> first place. 
PT> 
PT> Well, who will pick up that splenomegaly before the kid dies on the 
PT> football field from a ruptured spleen?
PT> If the school doesn't require a physical prior to sports, who is to 
PT> blame 
PT> for that kid's ruptured spleen (and how many millions will the 
PT> settlement 
PT> be worth)?
    You miss the critical difference: being a football player is a 
_voluntary_ choice, not something required of all students as a state policy!
PT> As for the physicals being performed at the school itself, from my 
PT> experience that is purely for the convenience of the parents and the 
PT> kids. 
    Then the "permission slip" that the parents got should be as 
comprehensive about what will be done as any other "informed consent" 
document.
PT> I see nothing wrong with a school requiring a physical, though they 
PT> should 
PT> certainly allow the parents to pay for it at his own doctor's office. 
    That's another major issue.
    When I was a Pennsylvania school kid, that's exactly what was done.
PT> Of 
PT> course, the kid'll probably have to miss a morning of school to get 
PT> this 
    Parents just did it during the summer, knowing that their kid would need 
the form completed.  No school missed.
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