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Condoms In Schools… Yes! But Advil? No Way!
By Matt Margolis | December 6, 2003
Some stories are just so bizarre and insane that you just can’t believe them… even after reading them…
A student expelled from Parkway High for a year for having Advil, an over-the-counter pain reliever, will not be allowed to return to the school.
Kelly Herpin and daughter Amanda Stiles, a sophomore, appealed the one-year expulsion to a Bossier Parish School Board committee Thursday night, spending about 10 minutes with the board’s administrative committee behind closed doors.
The committee and the full board voted unanimously to uphold an administrative decision that Stiles be expelled to the alternative school.
Unaminously? What the ….? Does this make any sense to you?
What kind of craziness has our school system gotten itself into when a girl carrying a simple pain reliever gets expelled, yet there are forces out there who cointually push for condoms to be available in schools, and school administrators and staff are legally prevented from informing the parents of a student when their child is pregnant and/or if they are aware of their child’s intention to get an abortion. Yes, these are technically unrelated, but these stories demonstrate the oddness of what schools deem appropriate.
Thank God I survived public school.
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December 6th, 2003 at 11:11 pm
In most public schools, they don’t care if you have advil/tylenol. If they find it on you, they’ll “confiscate” it, or take you to the nurse to have it adminstered
December 6th, 2003 at 11:27 pm
What about Preparation H?
December 7th, 2003 at 1:03 pm
I’d feel really bad for that student
December 7th, 2003 at 4:00 pm
Now all they need is for some youngin’ to get butt raped in the new transgender bathrooms…. this is so ridiculous…
December 8th, 2003 at 12:18 am
I think that something for the pain/PTSD would be a better choice
December 8th, 2003 at 9:15 am
Damn Reagan and his war on drugs. First guilty until proven innocent with a urine test for high school athletes. Searches of vehicles with out probable cause, now students getting expelled for Advil. Ah the Reagan legacy, let’s put the fool’s image on the dime.
December 8th, 2003 at 9:17 am
Reagan didn’t battle advil.
December 8th, 2003 at 4:24 pm
There’s quite a difference in the pharmacology of advil versus the like of crack, PCP, etc.
December 8th, 2003 at 4:45 pm
Jaws, thanks for clearing that up for me, and your point is what exactly? That Reagan is not responsible for gross knee jerk reactionism this country has today regarding drug use/abuse?
December 9th, 2003 at 10:27 am
(puts on tinfoil hat) Must…blame…Reagan. It’s all an evil rightwingidealogue plot! Never mind that this is just a taste of the socialist utopia that I crave! After all, the “authorities” know what’s best for you! When the “authorities” run amok, blame conservatives to cover up the idiocy of the liberal asshats runningn our publik skool sistems.
December 9th, 2003 at 12:57 pm
Masterbater would be a better name for you.
December 9th, 2003 at 5:57 pm
Don’t try to pin this on liberals. The war on drugs is the right’s baby, and this is exactly an extension of the zero-tolerance drug policies that conservatives advocated. Obviously no rational conservatives ever thought or wished it would be applied to frickin aspirin, but you can hardly blame this on the left.
December 9th, 2003 at 7:10 pm
The right doesn’t care about pills. Rush says it’s ok!
December 10th, 2003 at 6:28 am
“Masterbater” What a comeback! If you’re six years old…..
December 10th, 2003 at 6:46 am
Seriously, while it’s easy to shout out blame at the eeeeevil republicans, I haven’t heard any liberal/democrat politicians condemning “the war on drugs”. To do so would be political suicide and we all know it given the political climate. The point of my sarcastic tinfoil hat screed was that the “zero tolerance policy” has been perverted beyond recognition by public school administrators. They are hardly a bastion of “conservative thought”. I’m sure there is enough blame to go around but to blame it entirely on Reagan is intellectually dishonest. Like a lot of well-intentioned government programs, the “zero tolerance” program has turned into a monster.
December 10th, 2003 at 9:05 am
Public schools, bastions of liberalism…
Boy, 7, Scolded for Mentioning Gay Mother
Tue Dec 2, 6:25 PM ET Add U.S. National - AP
LAFAYETTE, La. - A 7-year-old boy was scolded and forced to write “I will never use the word `gay’ in school again” after he told a classmate about his lesbian mother, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.
Second-grader Marcus McLaurin was waiting for recess Nov. 11 at Ernest Gaullet Elementary School when a classmate asked about Marcus’ mother and father, the ACLU said in a complaint.
Marcus responded he had two mothers because his mother is gay. When the other child asked for explanation, Marcus told him: “Gay is when a girl likes another girl,” according to the complaint.
A teacher who heard the remark scolded Marcus, telling him “gay” was a “bad word” and sending him to the principal’s office. The following week, Marcus had to come to school early and repeatedly write: “I will never use the word `gay’ in school again.”
A phone message left for Lafayette Parish schools superintendent James Easton was not immediately returned.
The ACLU is demanding the case be removed from Marcus’ file and that the school apologize to the boy and his mother, Sharon Huff.
“I was concerned when the assistant principal called and told me my son had said a word so bad that he didn’t want to repeat it over the phone,” Huff said. “But that was nothing compared to the shock I felt when my little boy came home and told me that his teacher had told him his family is a dirty word.”
December 10th, 2003 at 4:24 pm
Of course you can’t blame it entirely on Reagan. But it should have been forseen (and was forseen by the many liberals, and the few conservatives, who opposed zero-tolerance policies) that shit like this would inevitably happen. But no, we have to be tough on crime!
December 11th, 2003 at 1:27 am
Matt, is it a common practice for public schools to distribute condoms, or are you just repeating yet another rightwing lie?
December 11th, 2003 at 9:45 am
Lets see, Frank gives one example. How many public schools are in the country? You’ll need to do better than that. By the way, try linking to the story next time, it saves bandwidth.
December 11th, 2003 at 10:01 am
Emmett, thats like saying Lyndon Johnson and the liberals should have forseen the damage caused by the “great society”/welfare state. I think it all boils down to “well, it seemed like a good idea at the time…”
December 12th, 2003 at 2:57 pm
Not a counterargument. Of course the left has been wrong , just as the right has - and we move on from that. But Matt’s trying to blame the left for the things the *right* got wrong, which is dishonest.
Interesting to note who got rid of most of the welfare state…Clinton! Backed by a republican congress of course, but squarely backed by Clinton and many other democrats as well.
(Only Nixon could open up China, and only Clinton could pass welfare reform…)
But when is George W. going to take responsibility for the failed policies of the right? As far as Matt’s concerned, there aren’t any…and that’s exactly what I’m pointing out.
December 18th, 2003 at 7:34 am
Sorry Emmett, but Clinton was completely opposed to the welfare reform act until he found out that his veto would be overridden. Only then did he approve it and try to take “credit” for it.
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