Drop The Vitamin Kid
Schools are still making the same idiotic mistakes they made over the past two years. A 3rd grader was suspended for 5 days for violation of the school's substance abuse policy. Take a guess why ... Unless you are as cynical as I am, I'm betting that the thought 'because he ate a multi-vitamin with his lunch' never came into your head.
Thats OK though. There's thousands of school administrators who never have much of anything come into their heads - they just pull the lever like a monkey trying to get a food pellet and suspend the kid.
O'Rourke Principal Karen Mohr said other students saw "a purple pill." "It was very frightening because we didn't know what the child had ingested," she said. Thats a very honest, and expected reaction. I would hope that all school administrators would be concerned with what kids are injesting on campus. But once you find out its just a mult-vitamin, its time to relax - not time to make an example of a kid who didn't do anything wrong other than to violate an entirely vague rule. Jeez, think of the trouble he'd have been in if he had brought the real purple pill to school.
Thats OK though. There's thousands of school administrators who never have much of anything come into their heads - they just pull the lever like a monkey trying to get a food pellet and suspend the kid.
O'Rourke Principal Karen Mohr said other students saw "a purple pill." "It was very frightening because we didn't know what the child had ingested," she said. Thats a very honest, and expected reaction. I would hope that all school administrators would be concerned with what kids are injesting on campus. But once you find out its just a mult-vitamin, its time to relax - not time to make an example of a kid who didn't do anything wrong other than to violate an entirely vague rule. Jeez, think of the trouble he'd have been in if he had brought the real purple pill to school.
# | January 31, 2003