- An American school with a "zero-tolerance"
policy on drugs has suspended a pupil for a year for having headache tablets.
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- Year 10 high school pupil Amanda Stiles, from Louisiana,
was suspended after over-the-counter Ibuprofen pills were found in her
purse.
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- Head teacher Ken Kruithof said the decision was in line
with Parkway High School's tough anti-drugs rules, even though the tablets
are legal.
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- Amanda and her mother Kelly Herpin appealed to a school
board committee but failed.
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- Herpin said: "I think a one-year expulsion for an
over-the-counter medicine is pretty severe.
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- "I'm not really sure at this point what we'll do,"
she told the Louisiana-based Shreveport Times.
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- "I'm not sure we could afford a private school."
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- Amanda, 14, said she carried the tablets to treat headaches.
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- "I think we're old enough to know how many we can
take without overdosing or being in danger," she said.
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- Last month armed police stormed a high school in South
Carolina and ordered children to the floor at gunpoint so they could conduct
a drugs search.
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- http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/08/1070732116699.html
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