I guess that’s a consideration for some, but that student was experiencing seizures (again) after being taken off the meds.

Knowing this specific children/orphan home, they do some backward ass things beyond what I care to share/type out so we just chalked it up to most likely the change in staff at the children’s home (the head nurse over there, *cough* that bitch *cough*) don’t know what they’re doing and/or they’re bad at their job. Last I heard before I left, the student’s case worker was working with our school nurse to pressure the children’s home to get the student back on their anti-seizure meds.

*Edit: and not to downplay the severity of the side effects that can accompany powerful medications which I have seen firsthand, or to say that it doesn’t make a difference anyway with this student’s future, but this student is also a very high needs special education student with an all too familiar tragic background. They can’t go to the bathroom on their own, let alone do things like take friggin tests, so we at the school thought, might as well make them comfortable at least and quell the seizures 🤷