[metalboy]

Advil! My God! The "Advanced Pill"??!! They should have immediately called the police, called in SWAT, the National Guard, and blown this villan into oblivion!!! Just one more example of how common sense is all but gone from our schools. Next I guess they`ll be susupending kids who bring in sock puppets.

[ppaul]

This sort of nonsense is going on all over the country. In a school district in our area, a girl was expelled for "PDA's" and having some Midol in her purse. The school superintendent's excuse? Zero Tolerance."

[Prime Choice]

Who ARE these idiots and what are they doing running a school??

A perfectly legal drug acquired in a perfectly legal way is considered grounds for expulsion?

These morons need to understand that Zero Tolerance does not mean Zero Intelligence. Sorry, but these folks are using it as an excuse to be belligerent dunderheads. They need to be fired. Period.

[Ruth A.]

Seems to me that this search would be on shakey ground. If they refuse to use common sense in their rulings, then go ahead and sue them.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

The NEA people need to be reminded that they work for American parents and taxpayers. What madness! Whatever happened to common sense?

[jaykay]

I'm not really sure at this point what we'll do," Herpin said. "I'm going to have to talk to my husband, and we're going to have to make some plans. I'm not sure we could afford a private school. We've been looking at moving to another area."

If they find a marginally decent attorney, they will be able to afford a private school, a mansion, a yacht...

[Clara Lou]

This is interesting. In our district, middle schoolers and high schoolers can carry their own OTC meds and self-medicate. They can't share it with anyone, though.

[fporretto]

Apparently juveniles in the loving embrace of our government-run schools have no rights at all. But then, why should they have rights? The rest of us don't.

See also this.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit the Palace Of Reason:
http://palaceofreason.com

[Joe Bonforte]

This is not really to you, metalboy, but to all our Freeper drug warriors.

Thanks once again to all our drug warrior friends for helping create a climate of ignorance and fear about pharmaceuticals. I know some of you didn't intend for our educators to go this far. But they did it because of the hysteria you folks introduced into the issue. By pounding home your "Drugs are evil!!" mantra, you have demonized anything associated with consumption of drugs, illegal or legal.

You make worse the very problem you are trying to solve. By railing about "zero tolerance", you've created this climate. Kids see these incidents and draw the conclusion that the whole of drug policy is stupid. It therefore becomes less of a deterrent.

If only you could see the truth. Drugs are not evil. Some drugs are stupid choices, and some more so than others. Without the demonization and hysteria, perhaps our society could come to a rational solution, and stop preposterous incidents like these. But your ilk is the biggest barrier to that.

[Skooz]

This is my Alma Mater.
Parkway High School
Class of '78.

You wouldn't believe the type and quantity of drugs we used to carry in our jackets in that place, way back then.

Still, expulsion for one Advil borders on insanity. And that the school board actually upheld the expulsion is mindboggling.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

It amazes me that because you people read something in the news, that you actually believe that as a result you know all there is to know about the event reported, sheesh!

[Kirkwood]

IDIOTS! DOLTS! NINCOMPOOPS! Okay, enough name calling. I really have to wonder if they are willing to apply this dumb rule to themselves? I doubt that this rule would last more than a day if they weren't allowed to take an asprin or an NSAID at work. Folks we can't just keep rolling over and letting the idiots run our lives. Today it is a student in a school. Tomorrow, it will be illegal for all of us to take an aspirin in public.

[Ed_in_NJ]

Most school boards are made up of volunteers (not paid) who can't be sued individually.

They frequently have their seat because nobody ran against them in the last election. It is not a 'popular' slot.

So, what kind of person do you typically find on the boards? From what I've seen it's frequently someone who has worked for a school somewhere along the line, and like the social surroundings (they are 'comfortable' there). It is also common that these are folks that have not distinguished themselves in any way (it's their one shot to 'be somebody'). The fact that they can't be sued is great for someone that screws up a lot.

If we have any hope of improving the candidate pool for board members, there needs to be a carrot-and-stick in the mix: pay them for their service, and be able to fire them (or sue them) when they screw up. It's the only way to get rid of the current crop of socialist boneheads.