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"The other point is that these kids are minors, and nobody should be giving them...
Plus, the kids know the rules..."

your tagline doesn't jibe with your thoughts...
You are not allowing for Constitutionally guaranteed INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, even for... 'the chil'run'.
It seems you may have, in fact, been fooled, again, into thinking just like the school board... WE MAKE THE RULES, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TOUGH S..T! If you have no copy, you can go and look up historical documents.
www.federalist.com

Every CITIZEN has Rights. The Constitution lists no exceptions, for age!

I've spent plenty of time in the classroom and have seen cases where students have been carrying around illegal stuff in their Advil, etc. bottles. Then, I've seen them share it. If this is allowed you create a situation where teachers end up checking that it's really Advil in the Advil bottle.

The rule might be an inconvenience, but nobody is denying the girl her Advil here. Plus, it's a slippery slope. What are you going to end up with? A list of approved drugs for the kids to carry around? And what if they take too many of something and overdose? Nobrainer that's a lawsuit if a parent didn't give the kid the drug.

Won't get fooled again?...Yeah, sometimes I am. But this time, no. The extreme punishment seems like an attempt to dismantle the law, given the opportunity by a girl who didn't want to be inconvenienced by something as trivial as a rule.