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Teen Faces Expulsion and Felony For Loaning Girlfriend Medicine
KTRK ABC-13 ^ | 10-8-03 | Chris Adams

Posted on 10/09/2003 5:43:19 PM PDT by dogbyte12

ABC13 Eyewitness News
(10/08/03 - CONROE) — There's controversy over a school's zero tolerance drug policy. Some say it's gone too far. A 15-year-old faces expulsion after giving an inhaler to his girlfriend during an asthma attack that happened at school

Boyfriend and girlfriend, 15-year-olds Brandon Kizi and Andra Ferguson are both asthma sufferers and both students at Caney Creek High School. At least, they were, until Andra began suffering an asthma attack at school.

"I couldn't breathe, and I was just very short of breath," recalled Andra. "My chest was tightened up and it was hurting."

Brandon described the incident. "Her face was turning a little reddish-pink and she looked pale, as far as I could see. I loaned her my inhaler. I walked her to the nurse's office and loaned her my inhaler."

That's when the trouble started. The school nurse called the school police, who arrested Brandon. They charged him with a felony, namely distributing a dangerous drug for loaning out his prescription inhaler. Andra's mother thinks that's wrong.

"His (inhaler) is the very same thing. And he has had my permission to give her that medication any time she forgets it," said Sandra Ferguson.

But school officials say that Brandon had been warned about loaning his inhaler, and that new state laws mean their hands are tied when it comes to zero tolerance and drugs.

Principal Greg Poole told Eyewitness News, "It's hard, it's difficult. We certainly don't look forward to expelling any kid. But then you have to consider a kid takes the medication and has an allergic reaction, and then we have to deal with that issue. So, yes, there is no discretion at this stage."

Brandon now faces mandatory expulsion from school and criminal charges in juvenile court. His mother is outraged.

Theresa Hock said, "It's so unfair. My son was helping her out. And now he's facing criminal charges. Would they rather have had her die than my son to help her?"

Brandon has a hearing on Friday to determine how long he'll be expelled for. In addition, he still has to go to juvenile court to deal with that felony charge.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: asthma; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 10/09/2003 5:43:19 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: dogbyte12
Whatever happened to basic common sense?
2 posted on 10/09/2003 5:48:09 PM PDT by SolutionsOnly
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3 posted on 10/09/2003 5:48:26 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: dogbyte12
But school officials say that Brandon had been warned about loaning his inhaler, and that new state laws mean their hands are tied when it comes to zero tolerance and drugs.

Translation: They care more about hanging on to their taxpayer funded jobs than doing the right thing. And they're willing to expel a perfectly-innocent kid for the sake of avoiding risks to their public trough jobs.

4 posted on 10/09/2003 5:51:09 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: SolutionsOnly
If you want common sense, ask for a jury trial.
5 posted on 10/09/2003 5:51:54 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: dogbyte12
...now IF he had put the inhaler inside a condom...

Common sense has completely left the building.

6 posted on 10/09/2003 5:55:25 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness
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To: SolutionsOnly
Whatever happened to basic common sense?

Federal Statue PC # 391.23 sub chapter 672.14 excluding all of 245.74 and subpart B and C of 358.98 was passed into law prohibiting any and all common sense.

245.74 and subpart B and C of 358.98 applies only to your local Congressional representative who belong to the Democratic party

I'm surprised you didn't know !!!

7 posted on 10/09/2003 5:58:25 PM PDT by JZoback
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To: dogbyte12
If this policy keeps some drug-addled teenage junkie from offering his wares to my kid, I'm all for it. Break the law - pay the price! I wonder what other junk these filthy runts were inhaling...
8 posted on 10/09/2003 5:59:10 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: JZoback; dogbyte12; SolutionsOnly
Unfortunately Common Sense has gone before.

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9 posted on 10/09/2003 6:01:23 PM PDT by jocon307 (GO RUSH GO)
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To: Senator Pardek
Last I checked, saving someone's life was a legitimate defense for acts otherwise against the law.

10 posted on 10/09/2003 6:03:45 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian (Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
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To: dogbyte12
This is completely insane
no common sense to the law ,the idiot nurse, the cops ,the DA
By the grace of God perhaps a judge will common decency will throw this out
I doubt it..as they seem to be rare these days
But to punish a young man who merely opted to help his friend -out of compassion for her suffering-?
What a crock....
11 posted on 10/09/2003 6:03:54 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: Celtjew Libertarian
Exactly. What's the crime? And I checked, asthma inhalers are not against any law I know of.
12 posted on 10/09/2003 6:05:07 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: JZoback; SolutionsOnly
To quote Voltaire, "Common sense is not so common".


Ain't it the truth now...
13 posted on 10/09/2003 6:06:41 PM PDT by 4mycountry (magni nominis umbra)
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To: dogbyte12
Unbefrickinlievable!! Had it been a severe reaction, I wonder what the reaction of the school would have been had she died and the BF hadn't share his inhaler?
14 posted on 10/09/2003 6:08:05 PM PDT by ALASKA (That's my own personal, correct opinion and I'm going with it!)
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To: Senator Pardek
You're joking right? Did you read the article?
15 posted on 10/09/2003 6:08:14 PM PDT by ladylib
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To: Senator Pardek
is there something WRONG with you?

hopefully YOUR "filthy runt" won't have an asthma attack with no one lifting a finger to help (while the "drug-addled teenage junkie" is peddling his junk to other kids).
16 posted on 10/09/2003 6:13:50 PM PDT by solitas
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To: Celtjew Libertarian
Hope the kid gets a jury trial. I can't imagine a jury convicting him.

THE LAW IS AN ASS.

At least it is in this instance.
17 posted on 10/09/2003 6:14:50 PM PDT by ladylib
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To: dogbyte12
"Loan" (and therefore, "Loaning") is not a verb. "Loan" is a noun. The correct verb form is "Lend". Make a note of it.
18 posted on 10/09/2003 6:16:53 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: dogbyte12
The nurse picked up the phone to call the cops but what did she do for the girl?

I hope that comes out in the trial.

I hope the trial brings the fact home to parents that public school officials don't give a rat's patoot about their kids. All they care about is covering their butts.
19 posted on 10/09/2003 6:18:08 PM PDT by ladylib
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To: dogbyte12
The parents should leave the state today and never look back (for the kid's sake).
20 posted on 10/09/2003 6:18:54 PM PDT by microgood (They will all die......most of them.)
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