They’re in a lock box in the nurse’s office and they have to go there to get them.
They can go there to get aspirin or Tylenol or Tums, too.
[Mini-Rant]What’s really stupid (at least in my school district) is at the beginning of the year, I have to sign a paper that goes to the nurse’s office authorizing her to give my kids Tylenol or Tums or Benadryl (seems like there was something else on the list, but I can’t remember right now). Fine, right? Sign the paper, she can give my kid a Tylenol.
No, of course not. Bureaucracy stikes again. If my child gets a headache or upset stomache, and goes to the nurse, she STILL has to call me and get my verbal authorization to give any OTC medication. THEN she sends a note home telling me she gave her a Tylenol or Tums, and I have to sign it and send it back. :rolleyes:
The problem isn’t the “no drugs at all” policy. There’re valid reasons for that. The problem is the insane over-reaction to a mild infraction. She got expelled for it. For Advil. Detention would be fine. A week or two of suspension would make sense. Throwing her out of school for a year is fucking insane.
Similer reasoning has been used to justify a lot of overly harsh, cruel, and even inhuman laws. An unfair punishment is a sign of a system that needs work (at the very least) in my view. Maybe I lived a sheltered and naive childhood but when I was in school I would not such a stupidly harsh reaction to Asprin possible.
If I were younger and in her school I think I would try to organize a protest
For the simple reason did her advil cause any harm? I personally have broken many laws (and rules when I was in school) when I did not see what harm it would do. For example there is this no left turn intersection I used to drive through. During the day I don’t make any left turns there as I would hold up traffic. However when I was on second shift coming home at 2 a.m. I pretty much had the road to myself and turning there saved me a few minutes on the drive. You know what? I turned there every night. No harm no foul, I figure. Is that wrong?
Same with that girl. That Advil did not hurt anybody. In fact it relieved her suffering. Was have something with that was harming no one else and relieving the occasional headache wrong?
I would think not such a stupidly harsh reaction to Asprin possible.
I am putting a fe minute edit window for things like that on my wish list to Santa.
Yeah – I long for the good old days, when the guys had switchblades and condoms in their pockets, aspirin was legal, pot was something to put a flower in, mary jane was a shoe style, and crack was something either you tried not to step on, or that you hoped you’d get some of later.
Fifteen years ago, the student that wired explosives at school over the place where a teacher would be sitting got a three day suspension. The student who threatened to slit my throat was moved to another class. The student on the news for his arrest for dealing cocaine was back in my classroom the next day.
Now, the war on Advil continues. :rolleyes:
I’m sorry for today’s high school students. It wasn’t supposed to be this stupid.
I’m increasingly amazed that more parents don’t go on shooting rampages. For fuick’s sake.
I think what’s needed is some private foundation set up to fund and aggressively pursue flurries of legal/civil action against this kind of idiocy. A kind of Zero Tolerance Clearing House.
Public schools are pratically on lock-down. Here’s a brief list of some of the things we couldn’t have back in 1999:
-Over-the-counter or prescription drugs (no matter what circumstances)
-Pocket knives (ok, pretty reasonable)
-Chains (and the school took this to mean NECKLACES that even remotely resembled chains…even if the links were tiny)
-Water bottles (Yep, the only water we got was out of the fountain…loved getting mono from that)
Any one of those things could have gotten me at least 3 days suspension if not expulsion. We also had to wear ID’s all the time around our necks, and they were moving to ban backpacks. And this was a rather safe suburb…
I’m sorry about your friend. Tylenol and aspirin are much more toxic than Advil.
If this kind of “zero tolerance” had been practiced in my schools, my parents would have yanked me out and put me in a private school. I had terriblemenstrual cramps back in the days before the ibuprofin and such was available–I just wouldn’t have been able to go to school every few weeks.
Around here, the kids have to bring their own water bottles. The schools are so old the water pipes are all made out of lead and it leeches in the the water. The drinking fountains have all been turned off.
I think a lot of principles don’t agree with them though, and many “publicly support it” because that’s what their bosses want. And the bosses either have their heads up their *****
or are terrified of lawsuits.
Yes, they’re coming closer all the time. In our county they just instituted a new policy that in order to dispense ANY drug, including OTC medications, they must have a doctor’s order on files for that specific medication. So if my 15-year-old has a headache, she’s supposed to go to the nurse with a note from the doctor in order to get medication.
The more they tighten down like this, the more we’re forced to have our kids sneak the stuff to get around the stupid rules.
Yeah? Get this. When the Tylenol murder was on the loose, my BOSS came around and demanded that we all dump our purses and she confiscated all our pills. We were all grown women in our 20s. Why, I oughta…
Same here. I have endometriosis, so my cramps have always been pretty hideous - if I can’t have medication on a regular basis during my period, I can’t walk. In high school, if I hadn’t been able to have Midol or some sort of painkiller, I wouldn’t have made it through the day.
I think an expulsion is jumping the gun a bit here.
