Zero tolerance = zero common sense.
Somebody ought to lock these busy-bodies away where they can just spy on each other and leave the rest of us alone. I'm glad I'm not trying to go to high school now! And I'm glad we don't have such stupid rules in higher education, too. One reason I don't teach high school.
That is so screwed up. When I was in HS I had headaches constantly. I can't imagine not being able to carry Tylenol in my book bag or at my locker. Totally insane that they are "debating" allowing Tylenol.
catsnotkids Wrote:That is so screwed up. When I was in HS I had headaches constantly. I can't imagine not being able to carry Tylenol in my book bag or at my locker. Totally insane that they are "debating" allowing Tylenol.
When I was in HS, we weren't allowed to have any of that stuff either. I remember them being really picky about things like cough drops too. Many students still snuck Tylenol or things like that, but you had to be really careful about it.
I do think it's stupid that this girl got 2 weeks suspension over prescribed birth control, but at the same time, it sounds like she knew it was against the rules. There's no reason she couldn't have gradually changed the time she took her pill so that she didn't have to take it during the school day.
Vanessa
Wow, times have changed. I hope this young lady doesn't get expelled. If she does, I hope her mother goes to court to make the school board tweak their policy on pills on campus. The fact that illegal street drugs come with less penalty than birth control pills certainly needs to addressed and changed. The old school board needs to know their flaws and perhaps maybe even some of them should be removed from the board.
Oh but Tylenol leads to hard drugs ya know! Sheesh... I can't imagine not being allowed something for a headache. I'd have to miss a LOT of school.
I was always on Midol and Excedrin for cramps. I guess now I'd be a crack addict since they would never have let me finish school!
catsnotkids Wrote:That is so screwed up. When I was in HS I had headaches constantly. I can't imagine not being able to carry Tylenol in my book bag or at my locker. Totally insane that they are "debating" allowing Tylenol.
I went to high school back in the 80s in a building designed during the energy crisis. This is important because they had no windows in the classrooms and they used a recirculating air system (except in the administration of course) and everyone would get headaches. Everyone knew I always had various medicines in my bookbag including the faculty and staff and there was no problem with this. Today I'd be marked as a terrorist or something.
I remember the teachers occasionally asking us if we had Tylenol... everyone has the possibility of getting headaches and I don't understand any rule that bans something that can be bought off the shelf.
Prescriptions are slightly different, although if you need them... What would they do if someone needed pills for anti-rejection of an organ? I'm guessing they would make an exception, but still. I agree that it would have been better for her to have switched the time she took it, although possibly she didn't want to keep them at home either?
Quote:I was always on Midol and Excedrin for cramps. I guess now I'd be a crack addict since they would never have let me finish school!
I carried Darvocet with me because my cramps were so bad. At the
time that was a prescription drug. Mom got it from work and I didn't have a script, so I guess I would be considered a super hard core druggie. 5 years in the hole for me!
Wow, this is disturbing.
The problem with zero tolerance is that it leads to, or is based on, zero common sense.
I understand the idea behind "all or none" but the fact is it DOESN'T work, and anyone with any sense at all knows this.
I'm a little bit younger than most of you and went to school in an uber-conservative district. We were allowed to have OTC medications but prescriptions had to be left with the nurse. Being caught with one that wasn't with the nurse got you a write up, or maybe a detention or something, I don't remember. I do remember having prescription cough medicine in high school that was left with the nurse, so I'd get out of class to go take it. What a waste of time, but it was at the start of the "Zero Tolerance" movement, so I guess it could have been a lot worse, it was just really silly, especially given what lots of kids did during school hours by the gym that everyone knew about.