In Virginia, a high school student was caught taking her birth contol pill during lunch break. The administrators reacted punitively.
When a Fairfax County mother got an urgent call from school last month reporting that her teenage daughter was caught popping a pill at lunchtime, she did not panic. "It was probably her birth-control pill," she thought. She was right.
Her heart dropped that afternoon in the assistant principal's office at Oakton High School when she and her daughter heard the mandatory punishment: A two-week suspension and recommendation for expulsion.
This, it turns out, is not officially part of the right wing War on Safe Sex but rather their War on Drugs. Violating a girl's privacy, suspending her for two weeks, and beginning proceedings to have her kicked out permanently is all part of the same grand strategy that led another girl, this one 13, to be strip searched by administrators looking for non-existant ibuprofen.
I for one do not support legalizing drugs, but for crying out loud, when are we going to stop using the War of Drugs to justify every violation of decency and common sense? I would rather see teenagers get stoned than to see more of our innocent youth subjected to this kind of degredation.
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