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10 year old girl killed by bad school policies

2021-10-06 17:41:56.416752+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Virginia girl, 10, dead from COVID after being named ‘class nurse,’ school investigating

One week before her death, Teresa Sperry told her mom and dad that her fifth-grade teacher at Hillpoint Elementary School in Suffolk gave her the “nurse” job of walking sick kids to the actual nurse’s office, according to a Facebook post from her mother, Nicole Sperry.

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"One of the things she told us before she got sick, was that her job was to be the 'class nurse' to take the sick kids from the class to the nurse's office," Jeff said. "And you have to understand my daughter, this is who she is, helping people is my daughter, it's not something that she wouldn't have wanted to do."

Suffolk schools to investigate whether teacher asked student who died to walk sick children to nurse

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