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AAP trains pediatricians for future in school health

A middle school student contracts meningitis, and you're besieged with anxious families, teachers, and the media while trying to work with public health authorities and see patients. A tainted school lunch may have given local middle school students salmonella, but by the time you find out, they have all left for the weekend. It's kickoff time, and as team physician you need to decide if the star athlete, who doesn't have the required physical examination on record, can play or not. A parent threatens to sue to have his child transferred to another school because of mold that's affecting the child's allergies, and the school board wants your opinion. You have contracted to consult on sexuality education curricula that has community groups on all sides arguing, and the vote on the school budget hangs in the balance. What do you do?