They had to THINK about this? Was she supposed to suffocate on the floor until the authority approved medics showed up with an inhaler?
The funny thing is that in the old days (50's and 60's), stupid authoritarian policies were commonly seen by the young as the practice of old Repubbies, WWI VFW members, (WWII veterans were still relatively young and cool), and sometimes the clergy.
Now it is the NEA backed educational system, which is relentlessly liberal and supposedly "anti-establishment" which is totally rigid and lacking in any common sense. Up with sympathy for the transgendered; any culture but white is better, you know the drill. But what ever the new anti-orthodoxy is, you better not buck it.
{Rant mode off, next after dinner wine glass readied.}