Thank the Gods it Wasn’t Tylenol!
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Zero-Zero-Tolerance
Yet more proof that everyone involved in educating our children haven’t the least business being there:
Savana Redding, an eighth grade honor roll student at Safford Middle School in Tucson, Arizona, was pulled from class on October 8, 2003 by the school’s vice principal, Kerry Wilson. Earlier that day, Wilson had discovered prescription-strength ibuprofen – 400 milligram pills equivalent to two over-the-counter ibuprofen pills, such as Advil – in the possession of Redding’s classmate. Safford maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward all prescription medicines, including prescription-strength ibuprofen. Under questioning and faced with punishment, the classmate claimed that Redding, who had no history of disciplinary problems or substance abuse, had given her the pills.
After escorting Redding to his office, Wilson presented Redding with the ibuprofen pills and informed her of her classmate’s accusations. Redding said she had never seen the pills before and agreed to a search of her possessions, wanting to prove she had nothing to hide. Joined by a female school administrative assistant, Wilson searched Redding’s backpack and found nothing. Instructed by Wilson, the administrative assistant then took Redding to the school nurse’s office in order to perform a strip search.
In the school nurse’s office, Redding was ordered to strip to her underwear. She was then commanded to pull her bra out and to the side, exposing her breasts, and to pull her underwear out at the crotch, exposing her pelvic area. The strip search failed to uncover any ibuprofen pills.
The zero tolerance policy is in place because there is not one person in administration smart enough to say, “hey, that’s just ibuprofen, confiscate it and let’s move on with our day.” That should scare the unholy crap out of everyone with school-age children.
So how do we fix it?
Tags: i'm getting a headache, non-education
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March 4th, 2008
Search her locker? If you must. Her bag? Thats pushing it, but fine. A strip search? Maybe we should check that fellows desk, ’cause he’s smoking something.
The school claimed the search was “no big deal” since nothing was found… How would this Administrator feel if HIS Supervisor pulled him aside and ordered him to drop trou’, and “No, you can’t call your mommy or your Lawyer first.”
Idiots.
I see the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found nothing amiss… but they have a great track record, don’t they? A pox on all of ‘em.
It’s a sad state an’ all when we have to teach our kids not to trust their teachers (and cops) 100%.
My oldest knows that if anyone asks or tells him to do something questionable, he has my permission to get stubborn and call us, Mom and/or I will straighten things it out no matter how long it may take.
Hooz.
March 4th, 2008
wow….All I can say is that I would be *unbelievably* pissed off if that were my kid.
March 4th, 2008
How about if we stop giving these idiots tenure?
March 8th, 2008
Agrees with Nate, if that was one of my children, there would be hell to pay for it. Surely there would of been a more appropriate way to handle this.