One-year expulsion for having Advil at school

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How this kind of things can happen, why doesn't the society react to the obvious insanity of these decisions?!

[Edited on Dec 05, 2003 by MustiMan]

Just for watching a fight???
I cant think of a single student at my old high school that didnt watch a fight.

Zero-Tolerance policies = Zero-Effectiveness.

That's funny! I know that there was a point, in grade 11, while attending a Catholic School for boys, that i got sighted by and administrator having a half dozen pain- killer bottles on the top shelf of my locker. We're not talking advil here, we're talking rugby injury-numbing, codeine-covered capsules of bliss like entrophen-10, tylenol 3 and others, stuff much less innocent then a mere advil. All it amounted to was a trip to the councellor where it was decided I wasn't large enough to be on the A team of the best Rugby team in my province, which I probably wasn't. Imagine how amusing this is for me not to mention absurd... how can society allow this? Simple this kid's likely the scapegoat, being made an example of, for a school with much larger drug problems then advil.

Now thats dumb!

when i was in high school, one of the other schools in the county had this prohibition against scrunchies worn around girls' wrists. apparently it just drives the boys wild and makes them want to jump us or something. or maybe it's just more of the evil girls tempting boys from all that is holy. our vice principal wanted to do the same thing at our school, but then he already had some weird obsession with making sure girls didn't wear tank tops.

We couldn't wear headbands that were thick enough to be construed as head scarfs because headscarfs, as we all know, are signs of gang activities. Also, if you were caught smoking at the bust stop you would be suspended. Even if the bus stop was your driveway. My freshman year, which was on the heels of Columbine, we were all forced to wear our student IDs around our necks at all times to identify ourselves as students. It just makes me think of that line Office Space: "you know the Nazis had pieces of flair..that they made the Jews wear"

That's the most regoddamndiculous thing iv'e ever heard. I feel bad for that kid.

u bet he needs that advil now...for the headache!

We had a policy in my high school that prohibited "Tarnishing the good name of the school." What this amounted to was that if anyone at school ever found out about something you got in trouble for (with cops, etc.) while you weren't in school or on summer vacation, you would still get in trouble when you got back to school.

High school in general is the epitome of stupidity. The point is not to educate you, it's to force you to get used to following authority, to do what you're told, so that you'll be a good, obedient slave in society.

one of the purposes of high school, other than education, is to prepare the student for what is next in life. sometimes college and sometimes not. what blows my mind is the rediculous rules and elements of control that these people in the position of authority put on the students. its absolutety rediculous. how does any of the above examples in any way better the student and/or prepare them for being a young adult?!? it only makes us resent authority figures and everything they represent. the youth will take over!!

speaking of pain-killers, back in the day you could order heroin and syringes out of a sears catalogue. no joke!!

No joke....

Cocaine was used as an aide to get off morphine addiction back in the day!

There's an easy answer - they don't. Do you think it's a coincidence that the rise of industrial manufacting and sweatshops came at the same time as compulsory, state-funded education? The point of schools was to churn out automatons to work in factories. The expensive private schools were just finishing schools for rich kids.

Times may have changed, but the system hasn't caught up yet. Hence: modern high school.

Zero Tolerance policies aren't about helping kids, they are about politics. They are about making it LOOK like we are doing something about problems are in fact syptoms of larger societal disfunctions that aren't popular to discuss and can't be summerized in a headline.

They are also all about passing the buck, and avoiding to have to make decisions that could have repurrcussions. For instance, the administator in this case just has to point to the "law" and he's freed himself from any moral responsibility.

Fuckin' druggies get what they deserve.

;P

It's an example of a stupid blanket policy. Some blanket policies are good, but for the most part, this one isn't.

Over the counter medications are prohibited because there are some otc products that can produce effects similar to amphetamines. While they're not inherently dangerous, they can lead to serious health problems up to and including death. I guess it was too much trouble to prohibit each otc medication...

They're teaching kids that it's ok to take short cuts, even if it causes other people problems.

getting them ready for a manufacturing job that they can take away and send somewhere cheaper. oh capitolism, you never sease to amaze!

Serious, everyone's personal stories hit home, it seems all these retarded policies were combined to form my my highschool's code. Of course the saving grace of my highschool was that the rules didn't matter cause the students would counter-sue in a whim and the administration was more corrupt than turn of the century New York cops.

......................................... Interesting

That's from where I live! I saw that article in today's paper!

I'm so glad I didn't go to high school here. The schools are horrible academically and then shit like that happens. I was always carrying something for headaches (usually prescription) when I was in high school. It's really stupid that you can't carry that on your person. I suppose it's better for a student to always be checking out because of headaches than to have Advil with them? (Of course, then they don't get any credit because they've missed too much school.)

I can't begin to comprehend this. When in high school I was seen with a quantity of weed by my history teacher. It was obvious I was caught, but not a word said. I have always wondered why. I was a star pupil, honors and all, but it was really a different atmosphere then.

sad but true.

That's a reason that if I have kids, I'm not sending them to a government school.

Doesn't this school realize that they have made themselves a hard target for a lawsuit? If the kid was taking this for valid purposes (its over the counter), which he probably was, which judge or jury will rule in favor of the school?

Insane.