Sharing more innocuous things than that, like a Tylenol, would meet the same treatment. And in the case of an inhaler it might turn out dangerous even if well intended... still, if neither one had been involved with this sort of thing before, why a reprimand from the principal would not do is beyond me.
Beyond you? Really? Let me help.
The “rules” are better if they don’t make sense. The point is to condition kids to follow them no matter how stupid they are. It’s the following them part that’s important, not the making sense part.
Get it now?
I am guessing the girls are white and the socialist/government school needs to even out the black-white discipline stats.
( Now I will go read the article.)