Joking aside this is BS.

P.S.: Zero tolerance=intolerance

Sometimes this ended up as a good deal for everyone, since the best teachers would never consider stopping teaching, and there’s no reason an ambitious person can’t be a good administrator.

Now, though, after a decade of Zero Tolerance, perhaps the job also selects for a certain callous brutality.

…why don’t they sue the people behind this highly illegal action? Go after the individuals. (Would the school district actually protect any administrator who pulls such illegal crap?)

They’d have to. Public officials are necessarily indemnified for actions taken within the scope of their function. (I worked in government in a previous life.)

So yes, when the school says they have a zero tolerance policy for illegal drugs, that’s exactly what they have. And yes, when they say that the student consuming the drugs at home is still illegal, they are entirely correct.

Yes, that law is absurd. But it’s still the law. You can’t get too upset about a school obeying the law…

Yes, and the axial myoclonus part? Chronic seizures affecting his trunk and/or neck for 24 hours at a time?

Also, with vampires being so popular with the kids these days, blood siphoning is a major concern.

Does the school disallow insulin, inhalers, and epi pens too?

I do hope this child’s parent’s sue.

The law only applies to students? Really?

I guess that explains why I haven’t heard of any stories of teachers getting busted for taking prescription meds while on school grounds.

(Or about the bomb squad blowing up someone’s nitroglycerin pills.)

Some states require home schoolers to obtain teaching certificates or some other licensing nonsense, some require standardized test participation, some require that you register a lesson plan with the state or county authorities.

In my state, you just say “later chumps, I’m taking my kid home” and after that your kid generally just ends up better educated and possibly less socialized* than the rest of his peers.

*(this means he cannot name dozens of talentless media phenomena and has not played hundreds of video games that glorify murder, so he does not fit in with his peers socially)

That being said, medical marijuana laws, as much as I sing their praises as delivering relief from suffering and marking steps towards relaxing absurd punitive restrictions on a low-harm substance, have always struck me as the sort of 11th-hour kludge that would invite exactly this kind of trouble in a world of ass-covering law-and-order bureaucrats, by effectively vacuuming four or five distinct groups into a suddenly visible legal shadowland. I certainly understand the notion that lowest-enforcement-priority and decriminalization and other soft-peddled winks and nudges are functionally as useful as law, but establishing an entirely different medical evaluation system to serve a single substance (whose biggest proponents are, let’s face it, interested in recreational uses) and to have that system have only intermittent repute, across jurisdictions that overlap, seems to be an exercises in tiptoeing past the sleeping tiger. Either THC is legal on the street corner or legal in ordinary clinical practice or it’s illegal- and the last is not a choice.

When visiting a 4th grade German school I found that out of 24 students, 2 spoke 5 languages, 4 spoke 4, 16 spoke 3, and 2 were bilingual. They were learning calculus at the time. the level of their curriculum was about that of college courses here.

That’s a really unusual school if that really was 4th grade (age 10?). I’m guessing most of the kids came from immigrant families?

The standard would be very basic English at that age, somewhat fluent but not very good English and a not-quite-fluent second foreign language when graduating from high school. Maybe basic literacy in Latin but that’s becoming less and less common.

That being said, that’s probably still much better then the situation in the US.