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Zero tolerance = zero sense?

A Colorado Student ran afoul of his schools zero tolerance drug policies and was suspended. The first graders crime was having a handful of lemon cough drops(9 ).

High school senior Carter Loar, was suspended for ten days for using mouth wash. His suspension was due to the schools zero tolerance for alcohol policy that prohibited bring any liquid containing alcohol on school grounds. He was also order to spend three days in a substance abuse class(10 ).

15 middle school students were suspended in Bremerton, Washington for passing around and tasting Alka-Seltzer tablets. According to school officials, this three week suspension could be cut to three days if the students agree to enter "drug-awareness classes and counseling." (11 ).

High school girls have been suspended from school for giving out Midol (12 ).

In 1998 a quick acting middle school'er in Maryland lent her inhaler to a fellow student who was having an asthma attack on the bus ride home. Asthma is nothing to mess around with, you can be hospitalized or die from and attack. For her act the school labeled the student a drug trafficker(13 ).

In Fairfax County Virginia a teenager got a two week suspension with a recommendation for expulsion, For taking a birth control pill. As part of the schools anti drug policy. Also the school has a anti teen pregnancy campaign, ironic don't you think? (14 ).