Concussion Report

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▶ 1:10:23 Jessica Dugan: again continuing on with the EP&P agenda first we'll take the item from the consent agenda the concussion report and for purposes of discussion is there a motion to approve the report so moved second made by Mr. Selm seconded by Ms. McAllister-Grant discussion Ms. McAllister-Grant I just had a question it

▶ 1:10:48 Speaker 7: mentions in the form that parents have been informed and the athletes and I was wondering what does that look like is there a training is there there's a

▶ 1:10:57 Speaker 3: training there's a letter there's a there there is a process you have to follow when you know often the parents inform us if you look at the number 22 concussions only 16 were in athletic events six of them happened off-site parents will call and say to us you know my kid fell off the slide has a concussion the doctor has advised us of X Y & Z and we share that with the nurse the teachers and follow the concussion recovery protocols that everybody's been

▶ 1:11:30 Speaker 7: trained in so when it says that every athlete has been included in this does

▶ 1:11:36 Speaker 7: it mean that they've been given the information or did they have to like sign something I'm just wondering what the it means they received it they

▶ 1:11:48 Speaker 3: received it they don't have it's been discussed with them right okay but

▶ 1:11:50 Jessica Dugan: they're also required when they sign up for athletics to watch an online training course and and as part of the sign up you certify as a parent and a

▶ 1:12:02 Speaker 7: child that you have watched that okay thank you that was my question great yes

▶ 1:12:09 Speaker 5: mr. O'Connell thank you so 22 reports of head injuries and I don't mean to put you on the spot madam superintendent any do you know if this is an increase over last year I realize that's a question what I will tell you is there's an

▶ 1:12:22 Speaker 3: increasing concern about girls with injuries okay and and I realize that and

▶ 1:12:28 Speaker 5: in this follow-up question is probably best put to mr. Fogarty 16 sports related reports have had injuries I'd be interested in knowing if we have a breakdown between and among sports and as you point out I think we've all heard about the increase and concern over sports that young women are playing so

▶ 1:12:51 Speaker 3: thank you I find it interesting that the state doesn't ask us to break it down and that they've gone to this generalized report but I'm sure mr.

▶ 1:13:02 Speaker 4: Fogarty could I feel like we've received that in the past yeah and they and also with the data from previous years so there's a comparison of a trend yeah and

▶ 1:13:12 Speaker 3: I don't know why the state revised their procedures well we'll send a subpoena to

▶ 1:13:19 Jessica Dugan: mr. Farabody I do feel you know this is a piece of information when this comes up each year if this is something that we feel as a committee we would like more information on it certainly appropriate for us to discuss that the

▶ 1:13:31 Speaker 3: only thing I would caution you about is if you have a singleton in the sport I certainly don't want to inadvertently disclose who the child is by the

▶ 1:13:41 Jessica Dugan: singleton in the sport yeah we have a past practice we can look back to to inform thank you further discussion mr. Selm so I'm going to ask this as a

▶ 1:13:53 Speaker 2: question but I want to be mindful that there are privacy issues one thing that would be of curious I would be interested in seeing would be those who are repeat concussion affected as many of us know if you've suffered one concussion the likelihood that you will get another one perhaps just walking down the stairs is greatly amplified by a factor of ten so I would be curious to see how many of those are repeat issues as opposed to first timers again mindful

▶ 1:14:38 Speaker 3: however of privacy issues that quite frankly is dependent upon parents truthfulness and reporting you may remember under mr. Giro what we try to do is on our health forms ask that question big for that very reason that you're talking about so that maybe we could be a little bit more preventive and I don't know if it's always told to us I also find the interesting thing that people don't truly understand what is a concussion you know they think it's the kid who's knocked out and gets up and is dizzy and has blurred vision they don't understand a concussion is as simple as maybe a persistent headache for 24 hours so you know it's an it's an interesting perspective thank you and I

▶ 1:15:27 Jessica Dugan: would expect that something that the athletic department and extracurricular as well as very aware of and they that they do look at in depth yeah from their