Finally, some common sense

[acroyear]

A school system is finally starting to get the picture that "zero tolerance" and absolute punishments not reflecting the nature of a "crime" (that of kids possessing legitimate over-the-counter drugs like advil) are more detrimental to the community than the close-minded bastards first thought.
Story is here...

The war on drugs continues to reek havoc among innocent civilians, particularly our kids, when people equate psuedofed and advil with cocaine or even tylenol-#3 (codeine), and punish kids with expulsion for such a crime as wanting to get rid of menstral cramps without the public embarrasment of going to see the school nurse.

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Amazing, isn't it? My school nurse would have had a fit had she had to deal with all the allergy meds and asprin type things that so many students needed regularly. She *really* would have had a fit with what I was told to take by my doc... which was an OTC at twice its recommended dosage at the time... every 4 hours (which obviously means not only during school, but at school afterwards the days I stayed for afterschool stuff).

They really need to write in exceptions to the rule for the most commonly needed things at least.

Heck, I've had to drive to my kids' school to give my son Tylenol a couple of times (I can give it to him at the nurse's office, she can't offer even that anymore)... at least I'm nearby... I pity the kids and parents who work an hour + away....