My son is in the 6th grade at school.  I went on a field trip with him and
his classmates about a month ago.  A Friday. Sunday nite his best friend
suffers an asthma attack at home, goes into a coma and is in the hospital.
The following Thursday they take him off life support (no brain activity)
and he dies.  I never really thought of asthma as being life threating
before that.  I obviously do now....

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Barnes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:26 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Another math question


the story Brice mentions below is another in a long list of stupid judgments
handed down by school districts across the country.  When I lived in Arizona
I spent many years on school committees and worked closely with the school
board members.  I came away from that experience with the feeling that
school boards are following the dictates of the national organization for
school boards.  They would rather bury the heads in the sand and ignore
common sense.  On a few occasions I was able to pin the school board down
with their own rules and put them in the hot seat; because their own
policies countered each other.  Only then did they listen to what I, and
others, had to say about issues. As long as there is a national organization
setting policies for local organizations the ability to use common sense
will be a trait lost, and many individuals will suffer because of it.
Even when I was a police officer I had the responsibility to use common
sense when dealing with misdemeanor issues. Felony issues where, for the
most part, set and enforcement required an arrest.  Then the courts would
deal with the issues of intent and if the criminal complaint met the
guidelines of the statute in question; but this is another issue.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sry&cid=320&ncid=320&e=2&u=/ibsys/2003
1008/lo_kprc/1822975

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