Parents dispute vitamin suspension at Boiling Springs

The Sentinel ^ | 01/09/2008 | Joseph Cress

[pray4liberty]

Andrew Figueiredo thought he was just taking a vitamin and a dietary supplement, but South Middleton School District administrators say he was taking medication without authorization and suspended him.

Now the father of the Boiling Springs High School senior is demanding a public apology, saying this is a case of “Zero tolerance equals zero common sense.”

[pray4liberty]

More zero tolerance madness. We need zero tolerance for school administrators who can't, or won't, think. One strike and you're out.

[chaos_5]

These same zero tolerance schools who would suspend a kid for a vitamin would drive your daughter to get a secret abortion! (At least they do in CA)

[SoldierDad]

And, in one of the New England states it’s apparently legal to take a minor child as young as 11 to a clinic to get them the abortion pill, or put them on birth control without parental notification. The madness of these loons is frightening.

[Does so]

That’s Maine.

[Banjoguy]

Boiling Springs is in Pennsylvania...near Harrisburg.

[perez24]

I detest zero tolerance, but why can’t this stuff be taken at home?

[Ladysmith]

In some cases, a person has to wait so many hours after taking needed medicines. Such as someone on thyroid hormone replacements; after taking it, you have to wait four hours before you take calcium. And for someone like me that has low blood calcium, four hours can be a darn long time.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Zero tolerance, zero intelligence

[stinkerpot65]

Government schools are evil.