Apples don't fall far from the tree

Scoliosis screening is always an adventure. Get a bunch of 12-14 year old kids in a room and tell them to take their shirt off: there will be jokes, resistance, embarrassment, and more. We were screening the 7th grade girls at my middle school yesterday in the locker room, and while I was with a student finishing her screening, a large commotion was happening by the lockers. All I heard was a bunch of yelling; come to find out, one of the students led some others in a protest against the screening. The volume and vein-popping anger was atrocious, all over something as trivial as a scoliosis screening. At the request of the PE teacher, who was present for this rally against us nurses, we reported the incident to the principal. I was left wondering how a 13 year old can scream such spiteful things toward people she doesn't even know (particularly those that are just trying to help) until the principal called me on my lunch break: she had the mother on the phone who was screaming obscenities at her and claiming the scoliosis protest incident was a work of fiction, and needed my statement of the incident as a witness. So, a student was suspended over her outrageous reaction to the scoliosis screening, and yet, she's going to be staying at home with a mother just as furious at her sentence as she was at the screening. Lovely.