MONUMENT, Colo. (CBS4) – A girl who borrowed a friend’s asthma inhaler at school has now been expelled.
The incident happened in January at Lewis-Palmer Middle School in Monument. Both the girls and their families are unhappy with the punishment.
The school’s punishment strikes one of the families as uneven justice. The school said the girls broke the district’s drug policy. Their families call the incident an accident and the school’s discipline heavy-handed.
For 10 days Breana Crites and Alyssa McKinney sat at home while suspended from school. The two were in gym class. Crites complained of trouble breathing, so McKinney lent out her asthma inhaler.
“I know what it feels like not to being able to breathe and I know how hard it is and I just took that into consideration,” McKinney said.
Ilegal and dangerous, but where is the common sense?
Oh, I forget that within our school systems we have “zero tolerance” policies (on most un-American things) so that the principals and superintendents do not have to consider the circumstances and think of an appropriate decision.
Checklists do not require any thinking or decision-making! Just the perfect example for our school systems to be demonstrating and teaching!