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Student Suspended For Having Emergency Roadside Kit
Kit Mom Gave Teen Contained Utility Knife

POSTED: 4:46 p.m. PDT October 6, 2003
UPDATED: 4:59 p.m. PDT October 6, 2003

CORONA, Calif. -- Lori Bollong says she wants to warn other parents about the contents of emergency roadside kits after her son was suspended from school because of it.

Lori Bollong bought the kit for her 17-year-old son who drives 20 miles to an after-school job. But inside the new, unopened kit was a utility knife.

"According to them it's a weapon... no tolerance for weapons," said Lori Bollong.

Drug-sniffing dogs at Santiago High School detected Bollong's asthma inhalers inside his truck parked at school. That's when security opened a bag behind the passenger's seat and found the utility knife. Bollong says the principal warned him "not to bring weapons to school, that someone could get hurt."

"He said that I put it in there intentionally," said Robert Bollong, who was suspended.

But Bollong's family went right out and purchased emergency roadside kits from WalMart, Costco & Sam's Club and each carried utility knives just like the one that got Robert suspended.


"The intentions were never to get those kids in trouble," said Karen Johnson, Bollong's aunt.


Principals can decide whether suspended students will be allowed on campus in the interim.


http://www.nbc4.tv/education/2535992/detail.html


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[critter]

As in many other schools, ignorence is not confined to the student body!

[KC]

Yep, zero tolerance, all right. If they've told you once, they've told you a thousand times: NO THINKING ALLOWED, DAMMIT!


School administrators and other assorted cretins...Truly a world where those who cannot do, teach, and those who cannot do, administrate. It would be nice were they forcibly reminded that the purpose of public education is not to employ educators.

[Standing Wolf]

Are leftists born stupid, or do they go to school for it?

[tyme]

Zero-tolerance, infinite-stupidity. Too bad the latter isn't a capital crime.

[BogBabe]

And in a similar vein, this just in from Houston (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=320&ncid=320&e=2&u=/ibsys/20031008/lo_kprc/1822975):

A teenager was disciplined for sharing medication used to treat asthma, but he said it saved his girlfriend's life, News2Houston reported Wednesday.

Andra Ferguson and her boyfriend, Brandon Kivi, both 15, use the same type of asthma medicine, Albuterol Inhalation Aerosol.

Ferguson said she forgot to bring her medication to their school, Caney Creek High School, on Sept. 24. When she had trouble breathing, she went to the nurse's office.

Out of concern, Kivi let her use his inhaler.

"I was trying to save her life. I didn't want her to die on me right there because the nurse's office (doesn't) have breathing machines," Kivi said.

"It made a big difference. It did save my life. It was a Good Samaritan act," Ferguson said.

But the school nurse said it was a violation of the district's no-tolerance drug policy, and reported Kivi to the campus police.

The next day, he was arrested and accused of delivering a dangerous drug. Kivi was also suspended from school for three days. He could face expulsion and sent to juvenile detention on juvenile drug charges.

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Will this madness ever stop?