Suppose the attitude of our schools was:

1) We know we have an unnaturally loud work environment in our schools, but it is an unavoidable part of the education process. We have seen evidence that it is permanently damaging the hearing of our students, but we are not allowed to diagnose or treat anything here. So we provide an excellent testing program and they can show the results to the family hearing specialist where they can get the hearing aids they will need the rest of their lives. We realize that this can be a great bother and financial burden. Of course, we also realize that ear protection is available that will prevent this damage, but it is not our job to mention this to parents. That is the job of the specialist. Yes, we know that they never mention prevention because they want to sell their products, but that is not our responsibility. And the fact that by ignoring prevention the hearing is almost certain to get worse, requiring stronger and stronger aids, and often resulting in permanent deafness, is not something we want to think about.

Wouldn't that attitude be cause for widespread criticism?

Now let's change a few words:

2) We know we have an unnaturally close work environment in our schools, but it is an unavoidable part of the education process. We have seen evidence that it is permanently damaging the vision of our students, but we are not allowed to diagnose or treat anything here. So we provide an excellent testing program and they can show the results to the family vision specialist where they can get the minus lenses they will need the rest of their lives. We realize that this can be a great bother and financial burden. Of course, we also realize that eye protection is available that will prevent this damage, but it is not our job to mention this to parents. That is the job of the specialist. Yes, we know that they never mention prevention because they want to sell their products, but that is not our responsibility. And the fact that by ignoring prevention the vision is almost certain to get worse, requiring stronger and stronger aids, and often resulting in permanent blindness, is not something we want to think about.