Scenario:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1958 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2008 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations.
Car searched for drugs and weapons.
First of all, smoking dock? I asked everyone I know who was alive in 1958 if their school had a smoking dock and the answer from everyone was no. Teachers could smoke in the teacher's lounge but students got in trouble if they got caught with cigarettes.
As a parent, I can also relate that there are a wide variety of forms that parents can fill out to allow their kids to take aspirin, Tylenol, or anything else they might need. No police are called, no cars are searched, and no one is expelled.
The conceptual lens of people who think this way is in desperate need of an anti-bacterial wash.
1 comment:
M, you mean you didn't hear about the girl in Arizona who was strip-searched for drugs? All because she gave a classmate an aspirin?
Maybe you should stop spending all your time listening to Rush.
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