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http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/10/student-denied-chapstick-petition/15400819/

 

STUARTS DRAFT, Va. — An elementary school student who was denied Chapstick when her chapped lips started bleeding has decided to fight a countywide school ban on lip balm.

 

The skin on Grace Karaffa's lips doesn't handle the elements very well. In fact, they chap until they bleed.

 

For years when it's happened during school, she asked teachers for relief with lip balm, only to be denied repeatedly per a countywide school policy instituted for sanitation reasons.

 

While in fourth grade his past winter, the bleeding started, and Grace was told she couldn't use Chapstick.

 

"Later that day, they started to bleed again, and my teacher said it was against the school policy to have Chapstick during school, so I had to go to the bathroom," she said.

 

The first day of the school year, the Stuarts Draft Elementary School fifth-grader decided she'd take action and seek relief from Augusta County Public Schools' Chapstick ban, said her father, David Karaffa.

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