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Under Communism, no good deed goes unpunished.
Sharing more innocuous things than that, like a Tylenol, would meet the same treatment. And in the case of an inhaler it might turn out dangerous even if well intended... still, if neither one had been involved with this sort of thing before, why a reprimand from the principal would not do is beyond me.
Asthma attacks can kill, so they basically punished one kid for providing potentially life saving aid to another, and they punished the other kid for wanting to breath.
In this case I’m for more government action: making it a felony for any idiotic school administrator who enforces such assinine rules. Yes, a felony.
Public school is child abuse.
Bingo. Control. Social engineering.
Bingo. Control. Social engineering.
There’s a difference of intent and effect between abuse-able prescription meds (like Adderall or Oxycodone) and emergency care medication which the school administration seems incapable of grasping.
A couple of points.
1. The girl can start home-schooling immediately.
2. Couldn’t the girl, suffering the attack, sue the school for not having medical aid?
I know exactly the feeling; I've been brought to the hospital a couple of times when I was a kid and unable to breathe. I never leave without my inhaler in my pocket. It could very well save my life, or the life of someone else.
When I was in school back in the 50s and 60s a teacher would have simply suggested that it was not a good idea to share medications. They probably would have asked if they actually took the same type and if they did, that would have been the end of it except they probably would have been sent to the school nurse to make sure they were OK.
If they were of different strengths, the teacher would probably sent a note home saying what happened and asking if it would be harmful and if there was any chance that it would be for them to not share one again.
In the “good ole days”, when my exercised induced asthma inhaler was still available, I lent it to my Scuba instructor’s son, as our group traveled for our open water cert.
No way would I return my kid to such an idiotic place.
This lack of common sense among school officials is truly astounding. Click on the keyword “zero tolerance” and you can read dozens, and maybe hundreds of similar stories from schools in every part of the country—blue states, red states, cities, suburbs and rural communities.
Just about everyone in authority who works at a school has to have a college degree, and many have advanced degrees. How can so many of these people be such morons?
“zero tolerance” is for those incapable of evaluating situations and circumstances and applying “common sense”.
She’s better off being out of that indoctrination center.
This policy is bullsh*t.
These are the same people who hand kids condoms and tell them its okay to have sex like rabbits, but svaing their life with an asthma inhaler is a no-no.
Time for lawsuits all around. These schools are being run by a bunch of idiots and they should be made to pay for their stupidity.
I have used inhalers because of breathing problems and they can/are life-savers. Time is of the essence in many cases so I fully understand why the girl shared her inhaler.
(I went into cardiac arrest a couple years ago. My son had just gotten me to the hospital when I died in front of the doctor, who had a crash-cart right there. However, he had to put a breathing tube down my throat in order to get oxygen flowing to the brain, a main priority before using the defibrillator paddles. When I say time is of the essence, I mean it. I’m living proof that that. A couple more minutes and I wouldn’t be writing this post today, 2-1/2 years later).
Dismantle the public skoolz.
Eliminate the zero tolerance idiots. Too stupid to re-educate.