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Girl May Be Expelled For Taking Birth Control On Campus

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Personally, I would rather have my teenage daughter take a pill than pop one out.

By putting a blanket "Zero tolerance" on all drugs, including OTC and prescription, they are basically saying that they do not have the ability to distinguish between someone taking an Advil, and someone taking 12 Coricidin to get a DXM trip, and punish them accordingly.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/...R2009040402591_pf.html


"When a Fairfax County mother got an urgent call from school last month reporting that her teenage daughter was caught popping a pill at lunchtime, she did not panic. "It was probably her birth-control pill," she thought. She was right.

Her heart dropped that afternoon in the assistant principal's office at Oakton High School when she and her daughter heard the mandatory punishment: A two-week suspension and recommendation for expulsion."

 
Hope someone doesn't need any meds for a heat attack or something (no aspirin for you!). Are they banning inhalers too? I am sure there are tons of other life threatening drugs that I can't really think of right now that you could be expelled for.

gotta wonder if schools are just trying to drum up attention for this kinda crap. This is just one school waiting for lawsuit to happen. Talk about it's ass getting handed over on a silver platter.
 
I'm sorry but if its over the counter medicines or prescriptions for that student (her birth control in this example) the school system should STFU and get over themselves. Yes I know there is potential for abuse but that's true regardless. As taxpayers whose dollars directly support the school system, I'm not sure what legal recourse would be available to me if they destroyed my child's academic career over completely legal things like this. Their "policies" can only take them so far and on things like this the taxpayers and voters should take them to task very harshly.
 
Jesus tapdancing Christ. What did we do before these lame "zero tolerance" laws? Actually use our brains in examining each student offense on a case-by-case basis? Oh lordy, no. Can't have that. :roll:
 
During two weeks of watching television game shows and trying to keep up with homework online, the Fairfax teen, an honor student and lettered athlete, had time to study the handbook closely. If she had been caught high on LSD, heroin or another illegal drug, she found, she would have been suspended for five days. Taking her prescribed birth-control pill on campus drew the same punishment as bringing a gun to school would have.
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sure, that makes sense....
 
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Originally posted by: senseamp
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Gotta love the gov't school system...
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:roll:
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Well who is responsible then for this stupid policy? I'll go even further.. so much for our government school system bought and paid for by the unions.
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Lol, you're worse than Winnar:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Originally posted by: senseamp
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Gotta love the gov't school system...
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:roll:
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Well who is responsible then for this stupid policy? I'll go even further.. so much for our government school system bought and paid for by the unions.
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Lol, you're worse than Winnar:laugh:
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Again, who is responsible then if not for them? Bush? Cheney? Karl Rove?
 
Its called a Zero Tolerance Policy. Some people will get hurt, but overall, it benefits society. The students will just have to suck it up. Or just switch schools.
 
This kind of thing grinds my fvcking gears. It's why I will be continually on a hair-trigger when my kids get in the public school system, ready to drop the hammer on private schooling if too much of this sort of sh*t poisons their ideas about common sense.

The public school system thinks it owns kids and can do whatever the hell the union (read: invulnerable) administrations and teachers want to do.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
This kind of thing grinds my fvcking gears. It's why I will be continually on a hair-trigger when my kids get in the public school system, ready to drop the hammer on private schooling if too much of this sort of sh*t poisons their ideas about common sense.

The public school system thinks it owns kids and can do whatever the hell the union (read: invulnerable) administrations and teachers want to do.
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Some private schools have even harsher Zero Tolerance Policies. When an area has drug problems and theres crystal meth going around the lunchrooms, something needs to be done.
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
Its called a Zero Tolerance Policy. Some people will get hurt, but overall, it benefits society. The students will just have to suck it up. Or just switch schools.
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If he had an 'Almost Zero Tolerance' policy, virtually NOBODY would get hurt. It would be one where we would use common sense to determine if what people are taking is a bad thing or not.. if it is, they are suspended, if its not, they are not.

WOW! ITS A MIRACLE! COMMON SENSE!
 
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Originally posted by: senseamp
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Gotta love the gov't school system...
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:roll:
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Well who is responsible then for this stupid policy? I'll go even further.. so much for our government school system bought and paid for by the unions.
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Lol, you're worse than Winnar:laugh:
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Again, who is responsible then if not for them? Bush? Cheney? Karl Rove?
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Kids who take drugs and the lawmakers who over react.
 
Originally posted by: ericlp
Hope someone doesn't need any meds for a heat attack or something (no aspirin for you!). Are they banning inhalers too? I am sure there are tons of other life threatening drugs that I can't really think of right now that you could be expelled for.
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When I was in high school, you simply went to the nurse's office and you took your pills there.... I never had to do it, but I recall some other students doing so when necessary. I don't know if this would include something like birth control as I don't believe it classifies as medication (which the prior situations were referring to).
 
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: ericlp
Hope someone doesn't need any meds for a heat attack or something (no aspirin for you!). Are they banning inhalers too? I am sure there are tons of other life threatening drugs that I can't really think of right now that you could be expelled for.
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When I was in high school, you simply went to the nurse's office and you took your pills there.... I never had to do it, but I recall some other students doing so when necessary. I don't know if this would include something like birth control as I don't believe it classifies as medication (which the prior situations were referring to).
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When I was in school we'd just administer our drugs in the parking lot or the bathroom
 
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: ericlp
Hope someone doesn't need any meds for a heat attack or something (no aspirin for you!). Are they banning inhalers too? I am sure there are tons of other life threatening drugs that I can't really think of right now that you could be expelled for.
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When I was in high school, you simply went to the nurse's office and you took your pills there.... I never had to do it, but I recall some other students doing so when necessary. I don't know if this would include something like birth control as I don't believe it classifies as medication (which the prior situations were referring to).
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At my school, the office staff kept them and you went and took them as needed there. Fortunately, it did not cause much of a nuisance for me since my brain medicine (anti-epilepsy) was only twice a day (morning and night). I am not sure what they did about people with severe allergies that needed to have a shot kit on hand.
 
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Originally posted by: senseamp
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Gotta love the gov't school system...
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:roll:
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Well who is responsible then for this stupid policy? I'll go even further.. so much for our government school system bought and paid for by the unions.
Click to expand...
Lol, you're worse than Winnar:laugh:
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Again, who is responsible then if not for them? Bush? Cheney? Karl Rove?
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Voters. The idiots who sue the schools for not acting like parents. The idiots who sue the schools for punishing Kid 1 for passing out Oxycodone but not Kid 2 for taking an aspirin for a headache.

This is not "the government". This is just the inevitable result of having stupid people in charge.

ZV
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: Skoorb
This kind of thing grinds my fvcking gears. It's why I will be continually on a hair-trigger when my kids get in the public school system, ready to drop the hammer on private schooling if too much of this sort of sh*t poisons their ideas about common sense.

The public school system thinks it owns kids and can do whatever the hell the union (read: invulnerable) administrations and teachers want to do.
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Some private schools have even harsher Zero Tolerance Policies. When an area has drug problems and theres crystal meth going around the lunchrooms, something needs to be done.
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Not the ones I'd send my kids to. Private schools are beholden to their paymasters (the parents). The path is so skewed between paymasters and public school teachers that they are more free to act like idiots.
 
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