Concussion and Sports - Related Head
Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary
school,
middle school, junior high
school and high
school, working through guidance approved
by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved
by the department of health to inform and educate coaches,
school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head
injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head
injury; (B) Require annual completion
by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and
by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head
injury safety education course program approved
by the department.
Recently, a teacher fired a gun while barricaded in a classroom, and last week alone there have been several accidental gun discharges at
schools, including
by a
school resource officer at a
middle school and
by a teacher, the latter resulting in
injury to a student.