AIRHEADS: Two girls at Greenfield Junior High School in Gilbert, Ariz., were
setting up the decorations for a school dance and got the idea of inhaling
the helium they were using to fill balloons to hear themselves "talk
funny." Principal Jill Bowers noted the school district's policy that
prohibits the "non-medical use of drugs" also includes inhaled drugs, and
suspended the girls for five days. "If it's such a dangerous substance,"
complained one of the girls' fathers, "why weren't they supervised? I
think they went a little bit overboard and took the zero-tolerance policy
to the extreme." Bowers relented, reducing the suspensions to one day.
(Arizona Republic) ...Whew! Now they'll be able to squeak by the seventh
grade.
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