Many parents are getting a last minute lesson....on the law.
That is, when it comes to protecting their kids from sunburn at
school. In most states, it is actually illegal to send children
to school with sunscreen. In Washington State, 11-year-old
Violet and 9-year-old Zoe Michener of Washington State came home
from five hours in the blazing sun at field day so burned that
their mother rushed them to the hospital. At the school district
in the Tacoma school district, teachers are allowed to apply
sunscreens on themselves, but kids are forbidden. Children are
not even allowed to bring sunscreen to school. School officials
at the district say kids cannot even reapply sunscreen without a
doctor's note. They also cannot carry sunscreen in their back
backs. They cannot even wear hats, because hats aren't allowed
at school. This Tacoma school district is not alone in banning
sunscreen, because the Food and Drug Administration regulates
sunscreen as an over the counter drug; many states do not allow
it without a doc