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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get all the suggestions to just hide pills. MCPS is dealing with quite the fentanyl crisis right now. If I see *any* pill on a student, I’m going to be reporting it. I will not be assuming it is advil. If you want to help us out, get the form signed and have your child go to the nurse.

-teacher [/quote]

You need to understand that the form is a giant hassle, and it hurts a lot of kids who need to take medication as needed for recurring ailments like lactose intolerance, period cramps, etc. It can be really difficult for parents to get the form signed by the pediatrician, because doctors' offices hate signing school forms, and give parents the runaround for weeks. The burden should not be so high to get kids run-of-the-mill OTC meds! When the school day is absolutely packed, no, a kid can't run out of the class to the nurse's station, which is perhaps several staircases and corridors away, when they have cramps and all they need is a little Tylenol and peace and quiet in the bathroom! A little privacy and dignity, if you please. And I DO NOT believe that this over-the-top policing is helping the fentanyl crisis AT ALL. 
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The easiest thing for you to do is NOT OPEN BAGS OR BOXES. My kid's middle school teachers never open things. They have a table at the back of the room for forgotten items, and the kids looking for stuff check that table, and also check the general lost and found.[/b]

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This.  There's no reason for a teacher to be opening up items.  Our MS and HS has a lost and found.  Turn in the item to the lost and found and let them take care of it.

My kid bringing a few Advil to school is not making the fentanyl crisis worse.  Good god.  It's like the ridiculous bathroom policies.

Instead of fixing the actual problems (like the kids who are caught smoking weed in the bathrooms, or the kids who are vaping in the hallways) the school wants to focus on nonsense issues like a girl bringing Advil to school?  Ridiculous.  [/quote]

Teacher from above here.

You have no right to complain about discipline problems within schools when you pick the rules you choose to follow. So you think this one is stupid. Guess what? Students think cell phone policies are stupid, so they ignore those rules. See where this leads?

Be a team player. When you blatantly choose to ignore a school policy, employees now have more problems to deal with. When you follow policy, they can place more focus on the bigger issues like the ones you mention above. This is simple. You just made yourself and your daughter part of the larger problem, and you taught your daughter she’s above the rules. She’ll be rather surprised when she finds out she isn’t.

I agree this conversation is ridiculous, but that’s because of the sense of entitlement displayed by some posters. [b]You don’t have the right to break policies you don’t like. Period. You don’t like it? Then work to change the rule.[/b] [/quote]

Option 1: Go to a lot of trouble and effort to try to persuade a large, inertial bureaucracy to change a rule.
Option 2: Allow my kid to keep ibuprofen in her purse, for her use, when she needs it.[/quote]

Okay. Then don’t complain about the state of discipline within MCPS if you refuse to follow simple rules yourself. You decided rules are optional, so you lost the right to gripe when others make the same decision about other rules.

It’s a silly, simple form. You have ALL SUMMER to get it done. Own that ignoring this policy is entitled behavior and accept the consequences when your child is caught. [/quote]

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