About thirty years ago, my wife was teaching third grade in a north eastern government school system. One day a little girl opened her lunch box (no cafeterias in those days) in the classroom at lunch time, and pulled out a bologna sandwich and a BUDWEISER. It seems that her legally blind granny always packed her lunch. Granny had intended to put a Coke in the Barbie lunch box. My wife noticed the problem. She quietly took the little girl over to the art sink, poured the beer down the drain, and cautioned the girl about granny's vision problem. End of story.
How about today? Just this week in a government school in my area, a thirteen year old girl was sent to DRUG REHAB classes because she took two aspirin from a classmate. She failed to go to the school nurse for approval to take them. (in which case the OTHER girl would have gone to drug rehab.) Are this teacher and this principal morons? I don't think so. I think they were AFRAID to exercise common sense for fear of repercussions further up the administrative chain. They did not believe they could count on being backed up for using common sense. They were probably correct.
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