Just a few weeks ago, 12-year-old Laporcha Burch died from an asthma attack at Cobbs Creek, Pa.’s Bryant Elementary School. Due to the fact that the school’s budget cuts only allow a school nurse two days a week, the school failed to provide immediate help to the student.
District spokesman Fernando Gallard reports that after Burch began feeling ill, the school called the student’s home twice to have someone pick her up. Once no one came by dismissal time, around 2:45 p.m., an aide drove the ill student home.
While one would assume that most parents are at work in the middle of the day, Laporcha’s father, Daniel Burch, said he took his daughter to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia emergency room shortly after she arrived from school, however it was too late and she died that evening.
Daniel Burch and the rest of the public wonder if she might still be alive if the school had provided immediate help.
