3.24.2009


Strip-Search of Girl Tests Limit of School Policy
Published: March 24, 2009
The Supreme Court will consider how far school officials can go to enforce zero-tolerance drug policies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/us/24savana.html

"drug policies" enforced by the school were for holding ibuprofen pills ie little nuggets of gold for menstruating women. Yeah, I said menstruating. Sometimes I get nostalgic for being young and then I remember that you're not allowed to have Tylenol or pagers or trench coats in school - sometimes school policy is as adolescent as the populations they are handling / oops im humming another brick in the wall ...