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![[0062] Side Effects](/comics/2009-05-25-[0062]-side-effects.png "[0062] Side Effects")
The current story arc started with this strip: Addicted.
- Principal: So you’re saying that your body is already dependent on this substance?
- Larisa: Well, yeah, I need it to, you know, not die.
- Principal: I’m truly shocked! I hope it’s clear that we cannot tolerate the use of such an addictive and dangerous drug in our school!
- Principal: … That even seems to trigger auto-aggressive behaviors as a side effect.
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Part of it all might be an oversensitivity to some traditional (and in a sense romantic) archetypes from our past, archetypes which may not be as harmful as some imagine them to be.
For me, a boy pretending to be a cowboy isn’t a huge deal, because once upon a time, all boys liked to imagine themselves as a warrior of the Western frontier, to shoot down the bad guys in heroic triumph, and perhaps even to save the damsel in distress.
For me, a gun is a tool, and it is the intent of use that makes it good or bad. A competent protector wielding a gun is a good thing. A soured student seeking some misguided revenge for some perceived injustice against himself is a bad thing.
If they think that fascination with guns is a bad thing, why is it they don’t complain about the overwhleming number of first person shooters, including many of them which run counter to the notion that guns are a tool which need to be used responsibly, and not for selfish gain and a sadistic love of violence?
I have no issue with a young teen who likes to hunt on his off-time, and who has been taught how to handle a gun responsibly and safely. (This includes when NOT to use guns.)
@ tualha: I happen to have a mountain of work in front of me and an attention disorder, not to mention my sister going to college and the person helping me in my online school being a Technophobe, so excuse me if I forget how to spell for one FRIGGIN SECOND!
Sorry I’ve heard of many stupid things and argued with people that believed School RULES were LAWS. There is at least 1 rule probably more in every school district the courts would have to toss out the door. Yes schools are authortian, but they must accept they are not Doctors or the students parent ZERO tolerance is a wonderful idea as far as its possible to go
@kongnjaal
Schools do this all the time. Recently, a girl was strip-searched for suspected possession of drugs. She did have something, but it was just prescription ibuprofen.
Schools do this all the time.
Before i gave the rules the finger and started to carry my meds on my person i had a semi serious asthma attack. Nurse was not in her office and the meds cabinet was locked.
Thank god for my friend AJ, a black belt in karate and brown in tai kwan do. Cabinet made of 1″ boards didn’t stand a chance.
He got suspended but he saved me.
*facepalms* does the word DIABEATEES MEAN ANYTHING TO THESE STAFF MEMBERS?!
@Sio: Yay!! Precocious students FTW!!
I was in a similar situation myself in first grade, but I don’t think mine went as far as yours… it just resulted in me disliking math for a couple of decades.
This kinda reminds me of an incident back when I was in Yearr 9 about how a student had to got to a great deal of trouble to convince the school faculty that a Medic-Alert bracelet is not jewellery. (The school had a strict no jewellery policy)
Let me start by saying that I don’t think all teachers are idiots. There are wonderful educators out there that truly help you learn and grow, there a quite a few that just ‘teach the test’ and you never really remember them at all, and sadly there are a few truly horrendous ones that make you bite back bile when you think of them.
You know them…they’re the ones that inspire the ‘villanous teachers’ in so many high school/college comedies. They’re the one’s that never stop being villians even with an adult’s perspective.
My most hated teacher was a racist, and made little effort to hide it. Many years after graduation I heard she died by being run over by her own car one slick, winter morning. And for the my first thought wasn’t “Oh my God! That’s terrible.” No, it was a tiny whisper of “Good! Karma finally caught up with her.” To this day I still think that first, and then how that was a really nasty way to go. (And then I try to make sure I don’t tempt Fate myself.)
That said, I think the educators in this little storyline better start praying that ignorance is enough to protect them. ^_^
It is possible that the teacher did not tell the principal the name of the drug so he may not know it is insulin yet.
*FACEDESK!* 😀
Im a diabetic too and Im laughing through this part xD
I’ve heard of this kind of thing happening once in one of the school’s my mom used to teach at. Of course, these days, teachers and other school faculty members are more aware of medical problems, which is good. The younger teachers, especially, are much better about a student’s problems than the older generations (at least in my school).
One of those DUUUUUHHHHH moments XD
I like this story arc. Quite funny indeed.
side note: Whatever they think is right , is right no matter what you do to defend it. It’s sad that this also happens in real life.
@ Sky King:
The US school system is inexcusably authoritarian. Despite courts ruling that yes, the fourth amendment does indeed apply to students, most seem to have resolved that they will continue searching their students however they like until given an order by their local court. How many students do you know who are in a position to take their school to court? It’s not like most parents care as long as the kids are out of the way during the day after all.
The J.A.M. wrote:
BECAUSE she has diabetes. These days that’s yet another disease that can be blamed on the child…because people can’t or don’t bother to differentiate type I diabetes (the kind where the pancreatic beta cells are destroyed by autoimmune attack) and type II diabetes (the kind that is related to childhood obesity, either by cause or consequence depending on the clinical case in question).
I would call this comedic hyperbole except that I had found myself in similar situations of “blame the victim.”
one word: school
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