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WA - The girl suspended from school - and threatened with expulsion - for taking her birth-control pill...

View the article here 04/07/2009 A teenage girl has been suspended from school for drug-taking, and recommended for expulsion - because she was seen at school taking her birth-control pill. "I realize my daughter broke a rule," the mother told the Washington Post. But "the punishment does not fit the crime." Many American schools have zero-tolerance drug policies, and they really mean zero tolerance - no cough medicines, no prescription drugs, no over-the-counter medicines. It sounds like the regime top sportspeople are subjected to. Everything in tablet form is suspicious, even if you or I may think it shouldn't be. In fact, later this month, The Supreme Court will be considering the case of a 13-year-old Arizona student, Savana Redding, who was strip-searched in 2003 by staff who suspected that she had brought Ibuprofen tablets to school...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).