His violation was bringing a small pocket knife to school which translates to weapon. He forgot it was in his pocket and hid it in his wallet and put it in his locker.

A kid should be able to take their pocket knife to the Nurse's office or something if that happens. Sheesh.

Those zero tolerance policies really should have exception clauses.

They probably do if you're the captain of a winning football team.

Those zero tolerance policies really should have exception clauses.

In one case here, an honor student got a fairly lengthly suspension because her mother packed two identical lunches, except that she put a knife to cut up the apple in hers. The daughter accidentally picked up her mother's lunch, and the moment she realized it, she took the knife to her teacher. In another one, a girl gave two Midol to another girl.

When I was in high school, I sometimes needed Tylenol or Advil during the school day. I wasn't allowed to carry it with me, and there was some issue that I don't remember with keeping it at the nurse's office, so there were a few times I ended up going home sick with pain that could have been managable with OTC drugs.

I had a sore throat, so wanted to have some chloraseptic at school. It was a huge production.

I remember my Middle School having a policy where even inhalers had to be kept in the nurse's office. It was routinely ignored. By the nurse.

I was able to take my allergy meds, my asthma meds, and my midol to school with me, as needed. But then, I graduated from high school in '85, and I think policies started getting draconian sometime after that. I have serious problems with schools thinking they should over-rule doctors and parents on what meds their kids should be taking and when. With asthma meds, "as needed" meant when I was wheezing and turning blue in the face, not when I could get out of class, trek to the nurse's office, and convince her to unlock the meds cabinet for me.

The kids with vocal advocates as parents still get the crazy suspensions. The kids that have to try and fight the system on their own have no chance. It is very frustrating. And yet with all the whacked suspensions that kids get that really weren't doing any harm there are really bad ass kids in school with drugs and real weapons. Also, kids that get pushed through the system and out the door that never should be promoted.

My nephew took the "absolutely must pass to graduate" test and failed 3 times before they found some loophole to push the kid out the door. If he ever decides he needs or wants basic literacy or math skills he is on his own. (or his aunt will happily help him if he wants to move near me)

I'm skimming a little bit, to tell you two important things:

1. Oh yes, I'm fine. The rockets-in-the-north incident now looks like one of the minor cells, God knows if even related to Hezbollah, is responsible of. Nevertheless, that was scary. (Also, omnis, I saw my dentist over 24 hours ago, 12 hours before they decided to launch stuff from above. That's why I asked if Nasarallah reads b.org).

2. omnis rocks. So hard.
I came back home, and a HUGE box with cookies waited for me on my bed in my parents home. I love you, man.

3. I'm gonna call it a night soon. It's been another long, exhausting week (even though no one died/lied me off). I spent some time with my parents in Be'er Sheva, simply ignoring everything, doing groceries. So I'm gonna take a shower, make pasta, miss my weekly internet-radio show, and relax (OK, and finish one article for uni. But just one!). And fucking ignore the news, at least until tomorrow morning. And hoping my sis will be here and awake when I'll wake up.

Sometimes just hang out with the parents is really good.

{{{Bitches}}}, just because.

Hugs to you, Shir. You've been on my mind a lot of late.

At my school, the only exceptions to the no drugs rule were inhalers and epipens. The times that I got really frustrated was when something was hurting and I needed an ice pack or needed to lie down or something, and I knew that I needed it, and the nurse, who knew my medical history, would have agreed that I needed it, but the teacher who had to give me the hall pass to go to the nurse said that I looked fine and didn't need it.

Once, when a gym teacher told me that I couldn't go to the nurse and I had to change into my gym clothes, when I could barely move my back and absolutely needed to lie down, I just left and went to the nurse anyway. When the gym teacher realized I wasn't there, she called the nurse, who asked me if I had left class without permission, and I said yes. She closed the door for the rest of that conversation, so I don't know what she said to the gym teacher, but I didn't get in trouble.