Here is one of the original news items about this incident:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/100803_local_inhaler.htmlThese weren't younger children, as I had assumed (I was reading this in the paper upside down, originally), but two 15-yr-olds, who used the same medication, and had permission from parents to use the other's medication if a problem arose.
The boy was expelled and charged with a felony. I couldn't find much further information on this case -- the girl was removed from the public school by her parents & put in a private school, but the last I could find, the boy was expelled, arrested, put in jail and was still being charged with a felony.
In looking for this article, I found others where the usual action by the schools was to confiscate the inhalers and keep them locked up in the office somewhere. If a kid needs his in a hurry, too bad!
Most of these problems are taking place in public schools, with their usual fix-everything, "zero-tolerance", nose in the air insanity.
In a related article, a mother said that if a student put a plastic bag over a teacher's head for even a few seconds, he would be charged with assault, but the schools see nothing wrong with doing virtually the same thing with their students.
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