Student Suspended For Cold Medicine
by TChris
Once again, this time in Utah, zero tolerance equals zero thinking:
Because of a zero-tolerance drug policy, a 13-year-old boy has been suspended from school for 45 days for giving a cousin a cold pill - even though it had been prescribed for both children.
Do school administrators seriously believe that denying children access to their prescription medications prevents drug abuse? Zero tolerance policies rarely advance their stated goals, but they make life easier for administrators by relieving them of the burden of using good judgment. It's time to remind public employees that they're getting paid to think, not to enact mindless zero tolerance policies.
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