Texas high school ensures that another good deed does not go unpunished.
 

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Zero-tolerance means that people stop thinking and let a piece of paper do it for them.

If a kid is selling crack or giving his prescription painkillers to someone after a brokoen bone heals, that's when you take serious action, not when someone hands his girlfriend his inhaler when she is having trouble breathing and forgot hers.

The term zero-tolerance only exists because if they used the pre-existing English term "intolerance," which means the same thing, local politicians and school administrators wouldn't be able to brag about it to get reelected.

This is why every school needs an Official Dumbledore to bend the rules and save your ass at the last second.

Oh, wait. Not every school will boot you for helping asthmatics, you say? Never mind then, carry on.

Man, if he had only done it in secret and charged her money like all the drug dealers at that school do! I hate public schools. In order to try to control the bad kids, many good kids get examples made of them. I almost got put in detention because I was in the hall during class time but it was because I had just come back from taking an AP test. I know that's not nearly as huge as this story, but it's the same principle.

He did the right thing, to bad it taught him to not do the right thing in the future. :(

This kinda thing makes me steaming mad. I just pisses me off that all the scum can go around breaking the rules and get away with it, but a person saving someone's life gets expelled.

that school is just crazy, "well done mate u saved a students life, umm don't come back til after xmas, we don't want u here!" what was he supposed to do?
life sucks sometimes

zero-tolerance=zero-intelligence.
what ever happened to the concept 'innocent until proven guilty'

Schools definitely need to look at things more "case by case" rather than following the "rules" rigidly.

As a kindergarten teacher I have students play "gun" all the time. I don't expell them; rather I talk with them about why we can't play guns at school. I also acknowledge that it is fun to play guns at home.

The system can be very rigid when it really needs to bring human relationships back to the forefront! (And we wonder what is wrong with kids these days!)

I think the days of "zero tolerance" policies are numbered because of things like this. Eventually enough happy, well-off, well-adjusted middle-class families will be affected that they'll kick a huge fuss and demand a more flexible system.

Pathetic, what has this nation come to when a kid cant give his girlfriend a hand with his own inhaler? Stupid school systems these days.

Thats sicking, that texas policy needs to be addressed quickly I can see why that policy is there, but it isnt setup in the right way.

I could understand this if he had given her his prescription Valium or something but it was the same asthma medicine that she uses. What a bunch of crap

I guess the good samaritan law doesn't apply to high school. Had the girl died from Asphyxiation, he could have been charged with failing to render aid, since he had the correct medicine she needed.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, someone needs to get exploded for that.

as long as the drug is non-addictive..there shouldnt be a problem

expelled for an inhaler! HA!

that is absolutely appalling.
he got expelled for doing that.
i´m asthmatic, and if i was getting wheezy and someone refused to let me use their inhaler then i´d think that was indecent...
but this kid, getting busted for doing the good, appropriate thing... thats astonishing.

Being an asthma sufferer, I have inhalers everywhere, my coat pocket, my deskat work, my nightsand etc. In the eyes of the Texas school districts this must be horribly criminal especially when you add in the fact that I share them on occasion. This is as stupid as it gets!!!!

Woaaaah okay...
What. A. Bunch. Of. Fucking. Nazis.

Zero tolerance, zero common sense.

wow...that's just.....dumb

Shit like this is why I hated high school so much. More bullshit than brains.

There are some dangerously stupid people in charge of our childrens' education.

i wonder why the state licensing division isn't looking in to the nurse that thinks an asmatic that doens't have her inhaler during an attack isn't an urgent situation. biatch....

My jaw dropped as I read that. I just can't believe how stupid it is. The world is a fucked up place.

I'm split on the issue... is this incredibly stupid, or extremely moronic?

WTF, some of this stuff is so lame. It's seriously amazing that there are any kids left in school at all after stuff like this.

I'm sure the people in charge can't be that stupid. They're just stuck in a system we allowed to be created. If they don't uphold the rules, no matter how rigid, they're screwed by the system. They would lose their jobs, subject to criminal and civil suits, etc.. If they do uphold the rules they're stupid or morons.

Which would you choose. Called stupid or sued for everything you have?

This kind of mindless rule-following drives me up the wall! Unlike the kid they've punished, the adults certainly have the power to fight the system if it comes down on them for not upholding the rules.

If that nurse treated the boy with the respect and admiration an upstanding member of the human race deserves, instead of punshing him like a drug offender, she would have gained the support of so many people if the book was thrown at her...

But now, even the boy himself is afraid... He would never repeat the good deed out fear of being sent to jail for it. This is just sad.

Another thing I just can't believe. I hope his parents fight the system. I would fight to the end.....Being a good samaritan should be praised and not punished.

I know you're just playing devil's advocate, but as a school administrator, I would have looked over the situation and tried to quietly inform the two children and their parents that what had gone on was a good thing but was somewhat illegal, and left it at that. If any higher ups had called me on some sort of inaction towards an infraction of "Zero-Tolerance" drug policy, that's about the time I'd play the press to get me public backing.

In the end, the school may have had no balls, which is understandable considering what a school can be held civilly liable for, but it still boils down to some dipstick choosing not to let the kid off the hook for something he shouldn't have been on the hook for.

Think about this: Dangerous drug? It was *dangerous* not to administer the drug at that point, which would certainly nullify any danger it had when being administered illicitly.

What a nurse. Hate to have her as my mom.

I read this story a few days ago, and honestly I think it sucks.

I would have done the exact same thing if I was in the kids shoes. They have the SAME PRESCRIPTION for christ's sake.

I'll give that school a perfect 5.0/5.0 on the "burn down this place" scale

Zero Tolerance = Zero Common Sense

Just Say No (to idiotic zero-tolerance policies)

He has just been taught a valuable lesson. "Don't trust authority." If he learns his lesson he is farther ahead in life than he would have otherwise been plus, he has been rewarded with time off school. What could be better. His parents are not going to be pissed at him and make him stay at home for his suspension. The kid is probably going to be down at the skate park or out ripping it up on his bike or doing whatever he likes.

TEXAS - ITS LIKE A WHOLE OTHER COUNTRY-

yeah, nazi germany-
an education system that teaches that there is no way to win-
Submit! and become the mindless cog that we intend you to be!
realy, I wonder why there is not more public outcry about these things- this is (or was) supposed to be a democracy, so why can we not effect a change? why do we not write these assholes- (anybody got a link, or address?)

(insert all negative comments about that school from everyone else on this thread here)

Theres all kinds of stupid fuckin rules in Texas. I should know I live in Texas. When I was younger and you got in a fight at school it was the person who started the fight that got in trouble not the person who just defended himself. Then when I got to about 7th grade the rules changed and both parties whether just defending yourself or not would both be arrested and fined for it. Now what kinda shit is that I'm just supposed to let some asshole kick my ass and not do a damn thing about it? They bring up some bullshit about how you should come to the teachers or the principle and tell them about it instead of fighting back and the student would be punished. If they didn't fuckin see it how the hell can I prove it? They'll just have some of their stupid fuckin buddies say they never did anything and what do ya know? They can't do anything and now the kid knows you told so he really wants to kick your ass. I always tell them "And what would you do? Just let him beat you up?" it's fuckin stupid and that story absolutely disgusts me. Zero tolerance, school uniforms/dress codes, rules, etc. None of these things have changed a fuckin thing about school. The same shit still goes on that always has and always will. Lesson learned...be tough and don't tell the authoritarians anything.

Asta!!

that's worse than the kid getting expelled for having a box of his grandmother's stuff he was in the process of moving which contained kitchen knives!

Well well well...I'm sure the school would rather have a student die inside the building, anyways.

hey nurse. i hope you drive home tonight and have a wreck. i hope you rupture your liver and i hope you can see people who can help but cannot see you. i hope you survivelong enough to realize the bitch you are. i hope you die.

i am sick of these people. i pray god kills everyone.