The principal, school nurse, and campus "police" are complete idiots...asthma CAN kill you.
If true, the nurse is dangerously incompetent. I carry an albuterol-ventolin inhaler because only the inhaler will relieve my breathing distress when I have an asthma attack. Since my condition is chronic, I need the inhaler every six to eight hours to continue to live.
whatever happened to common sense, and "discretion"...
In this case , I wish the entire school body should just take a walk out of school in support of this young man.....
I know that people that work in schools are supposed to be educated, but my experience is that is far from true, and some of the most foolish and silly and unprepared people work there....just my opinion....
I use it, too. Good stuff, and in this case, "the law is a ass."
OTOH, the kids and their parents are rather drastically over-stating the case. I really, really doubt that this girl was in imminent danger of dying: she could still breathe enough to use the inhaler, after all.
That said, knowing first-hand the relief that comes when the albuterol opens up the alvioli -- the boy absolutely did the right thing.
My ultimate question is, though: why didn't this girl have an inhaler on-hand if her asthma's been as bad as her mother said it was?