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The current story arc started with this strip: Addicted.
Forests in comic strips. Now more awesome than in reality. (It’s true. The third panel looks definitely more impressive than everything I’ve seen on my last hike some weeks ago. I’ll never walk that boring route again.)
If you are missing him: Woo will be back on Wednesday.
- Sandra: Tomorrow is the last day of your suspension, isn’t it?
- Larisa: Yep. But it’s forbidden to bring insulin to school now. So I guess you have to go without your favorite pyromaniac for a while longer.
- Sandra: At least you’re the most famous girl at our school now. Say, how’s it going in your new school?
- Larisa: Ugh, don’t ask…
- Larisa: …… Yesterday, a sixteen-year-old tried to sell me crack during recess.
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Second panel should be “in our school”
Does she have diabetes?
(I still <3 woo!)
I wonder what Woo would say of all this. That is, if he isn’t forced to look up hypoglucemia (or is it hyperglucemia?)
oh man that “punchline” is spot on
oops up till now I thought the girl with the long ponytail was a guy >.>
I suppose the hair should have been a dead giveaway but I can be slow to catch on sometimes
hehe loved the pause before the last panel, great job
I hope she turned in the crack peddler.
what, was she kicked out of school or something. if so, why didn’t her mom get involved
And this actually happened in the 90s somewhere?
Tom Mazanec: Its still going on. Check out http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/parents-challenge-school-policies-for-diabetic-kids-rights.aspx?googleid=252926
This rings so true to reality….
School drug policies have left diabetics and many others (such as athsmatics) with but one option: 1) Hope you don’t die at school, good luck.
Ah, public education: breeding one generation of misanthropists after another…
Sigh….
@Frank
hypoglucemia is the lach of insulin hyperglucemia is the excess.
Second Panel: Sounds like my old school system…….
This brings up issues that not many are willing to touch upon. And yet, you go boldly ahead with it. I take my hat off to you.
Hmm… can’t bring insulin to school anymore, but said nothing about starting fires.
Mwahahaha!
Yes, the irony of the last panel proved to be the punchline to the strip. Of course a sixteen year old hanging around somebody ten to twelve (I believe that is suppose to be the character’s age) should have alerted school officials of a problem.
A well done series.
I love the story thus far. The artwork is amazing, too.
Side note: isn’t she going to die now? I’m assuming that Larissa and Sandra’s school is the standard 8 hour school schedule? Even with a leeway of two hours, how is Larissa going to survive during school without insulin? How horrible! D=
Oh, last panel: that’s the picture they should put in the dictionary for irony.
@Cairn: I’m not sure of the American school systems (They’ve always confused me) but in England Secondary school has the kids from 11 through to 16. If the one Larissa goes to has a similar system, then it wouldn’t exactly be suspicious.
That being said, wouldn’t the parents of every diabetic kid in Larissa’s old school have had something to say about the outright ban?
@MrGBH: US system is 6-11 years for elementary school, 12-14 for junior high or ‘middle’ school and then 15-18 for high school, as I remember it. Kid could make more money at McDonalds than he can selling rock, too.
@Novil: If you’re ever in the US pacific northwest, stop by the Hoh rain forest for a hike. It is very picturesque and sometimes otherworldly.
“Forbidden to bring Insulin to school?” I know the whole “Zero Tolerance” policy most schools have nowadays is out of whack, but that’s a bit far-fetched. The school may as well raise a nice big flag with bold, red letters on it saying “SUE US!” on the flagpole out in front.
And that’s part of the problem: the only reason these “Zero Tolerance” policies exist is because many “modern” parents won’t even take an iota of responsibility anymore – they send the kid to school with their medical condition, no note, nothing, and when something goes wrong, like “why’d my kid overdose?”, or “why’d you let him have peanut butter/milk/ect, they’re allergic!?”, the school gets the blame, and quite often, sued. No ******* common sense anymore. = (
@ Frank & Shippo: Actually, it’s hypogl*y*cemia. (Or hypergl*y*cemia.) <⁄pedant mode>
As was stated when the strip began, this arc is based on a *real story* that we’ll get the details on in the end. I googled it and found only references to, but not the, actual news story. The punishment apparently consisted of exactly what is referred to above: 2 weeks suspension AND several says in an “alternative school.”
Days, even
dawwww… gonna have to wait to see the principal get it in the neck
or at least, i hope he does.
what kind of dumbass doesn’t twig that life saving medicine and narcotics are delivered in the same way? what other essential meds would he ban?
@tahrey: Well, you heard him “…aspirin!”
@shippo: I was wondering which one Larissa has, because of the whole “I’m low” discussion a couple weeks back. Sort of wanted to get out there that *hyper*glycemia does exist, and I believe it’s treated with insulin as well (to quicken breaking the sugar apart, and thus rid the system of it)
@reynard: spelled it correctly this time
It’s a small wonder that nobody has thought to use the mighty stick that is the American’s with Disabilities Act. Diabetics are tied to their testing supplies and (in some cases) insulin just as much as a paraplegic is tied to their chair, probably more so. In theory a paraplegic can still crawl around, a diabetic without the tools to monitor blood sugar might die. Adjustment to so called “Zero Tolerance” (Zero Sense?) rules falls under Reasonable Accommodation.
One thing that would be interesting is if non-diabetic kids brought insulin to school.
After all, insulin is taken by some bodybuilders to increase their anabolic phase. Little Hercules may have taken some.
At the Highschool in the city I used to live in there was a funny after affect to a Zero Tolerance policy.
A girl in school was having some bad cramps from “that time of the month” & another girl gave her a Midol (I think that is how it is spelled). Both girls were suspended for “passing out drugs” & “accepting drugs” or something like that. Anyways, a bunch of the students, not knowing the details, figured that Midol must give you some kind of drug high. For a brief bit of time there were a bunch of students taking menstrual cramp medicine trying to get high!
It’s almost that bad at our school. A kid got suspended for holding “weed” for another guy, and this stuff happens occasionally.
I highly recommend the “school sucks” podcast series; it will reveal that the public school model was intentionally designed to do the opposite of what it currently claims to do; it is intentionally bad.