At least that’s what happened to Taylor Hess<\/a>.<\/p>\nH-E-B district officials maintained throughout the Hess hearing that students’ safety must be the overriding factor in any situation where a weapon is found on campus.
\n“I do feel he [Hess] put students at risk, whether he knowingly did that or not,” Dianne Byrnes, H-E-B director of alternative education programs, said at the hearing.<\/p>\n
Speaking of putting students at risk, another incredibly goofy aspect of many schools ZT policy on medications is forcing asthmatics to keep their emergency inhalers in the school nurse’s office, rather than at hand, as this Reason <\/i>magazine article discusses.<\/p>\n
I spoke to Ivanhoe\u2019s then-principal, Kevin Baker. He said I\u2019d been “breaking the law” for five years by keeping the inhaler in the backpack instead of in the office, and that he would “confiscate” it if he found it there in the future. If the school had allowed this before, he said, it was an oversight. “So now what we need to do,” he explained, in a sing-songy, Romper Room voice, “is set up a series of intervention meetings to help you understand our concerns about you breaking the law.” My arguments about doctor\u2019s orders went nowhere. “When your daughter is at school,” Principal Baker said, “I am the ultimate authority concerning her health.”<\/p>\n
Yeah. That makes me feel much better. Especially as the article describes many cases of mishandling of meds in school offices (especially since school nurses are, these days, rare than hen’s teeth).<\/p>\n
And, for those who don’t already get it, it can also be a matter of life and death — a lesson that shouldn’t be lost on paranoid school districts.<\/p>\n
In her letter to the Bristol Township School Board, Nancy Sander referred to the 1991 death of a New Orleans high school student, Catrina Lewis, who was delayed by security guards before being allowed to get her inhaler from the office. When it didn\u2019t help, she asked school staff to call an ambulance; instead they spent a half-hour trying to call her mother first. Catrina\u2019s sister, another student, finally called 911 herself, but emergency help arrived too late. In 1996, a New Orleans judge ordered Lawless High School\u2019s acting principal, a school counselor, and the school board to pay $1 million in damages to Catrina\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
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