[Fred Hayek]

I think it was on a thread here on FR. BTW, correction: inhaler, not respirator. John Stossel may have mentioned it as well.

[kenth]

I don't recall that young of kids, but I do recall a thread on the same situation, but it was high school kids. High school girl gave her boyfriend her inhaler, or vice-versa. Same thing; expelled, arrested while preventing a serious health crisis.

[S0122017]

wow Here in holland things are more relax. You can even find people smoking joints (outside) during lunchbreaks. Although there was a kid at my school that sold illegal fireworks in lunchbreaks and i tought that went to far, they where avalanche arrows and nitrate bombs, heavy stuff and he had a backpack filled with it. Nobody ever cared though, not even the teacher standing a few meters from him checking whether anything inappropriate was occuring in the halls :). The only time he got into trouble was when he blew up a refrigerator with a nitrate bomb that someone left outside a house near school! The guy who lived there sure was pissed and the kid got punishment from the coordinator: he and his friends had to stay on the 1st floor during lunchbreaks where he couldnt cause trouble, for the duration of a month or so. He probably got of easy cause he delivered illegaly copied software to that coordinator.
Yes Dutch schools sure are different from american. But we weren't taught Heimlich either, unfortunately.