Originally published at: Texas Teachers suspended after knocking out kids with medicated "sleeping stickers" (video) - Boing Boing
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$10 says they’ll claim qualified immunity.
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Teachers have no such immunity. They are in deep shit.
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“So I say we drug the kids. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? If someone figures it out we’ll just say we didn’t know it was wrong, everyone will have a good laugh, and that’ll be the end of it. Right?”
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Nothing is being more enshittified more quickly, and more profoundly than childhood.
Things were bad enough when I was a kid, but nowadays? FFS. Schools, politicians, cops - all loathe and despise children. capitalism just sees them as an army of mugs, to be taken advantage of and burned as often and as much as possible.
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This sounds like an episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”.
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And here I thought schools were supposed to ask parental permission to drug kids! Pshaw! – silly me.
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In loco parentis? I’m no lawyer, and I don’t believe the term existed at the time, but growing up that term sure felt like qualified immunity.
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“Ok kids, after special-sleepy-nappy-time we have a D.A.R.E. presentation, some come get your drug-laced stickers now!”
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This patch is made for ADULTS. The ingredients DO work!
But what is the effect of giving adult doses of them to small children, in the middle of the day? Probably royally messes up their sleep cycle.
SleepZ Patch, contains a lot of ingredients, including hops, melatonin, valerian, and GABA.
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That absolutely does not give the school the right to medicate your children without your knowledge or consent. And even if it did, it certainly doesn’t give an individual teacher the right to medicate your children without the parents or the school’s knowledge or consent. All that term means is that the school can take on some of the responsibilities of the parent while your child is physically in the school. This comes up mostly in discipline issues. Think “You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not my mom!” Well…while they’re in the school building, the school is the mom. For certain things. Not for medication decisions, though. No way. No how. Uh uh. These teachers are in deep doo doo.
ETA: Also, the term “in loco parentis” absolutely existed at the time you were a child. It’s an old term. The legal principle comes from Common Law. It’s been around a long time. It’s also what gives grandparents or other temporary guardians certain rights to parent a child in certain situations. Again, however, not drugging your kids.
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I wrote that ambiguously - I’d meant that I don’t think “qualified immunity” was a thing then.
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Gotcha. That was a thing then, too. The general public was just less aware of it. It also applies to mayors, city councils, legislators, etc. You can’t sue the government for raising taxes, for example. That was the intent of qualified immunity, and it also arises from Common Law. It has been perverted by the police to allow them to do almost anything with impunity, and by SCOTUS now to help Trump become a dictator.
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Interesting, thanks. I don’t think I’d ever heard the term except as applied to law enforcement.
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My kids’ schools can’t give an Advil out without my written permission in triplicate. Drugging kids is not going to go well.
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While the listed ingredients are largely harmless, especially in a transdermal approach (which I suspect is utterly ineffective for most of them), administering any medication to children without notifying their parents and getting permission is a huge deal. The fact that they probably caused no injury is completely beside the point. Adding that there is no regulation of “alternative” medication, so the ingredient list is frequently not at all indicative of what is actually in the things, and you have a set-up for bad things to happen. This was stupid and (probably) criminal, as well as contrary to any and all professional ethics. I hate it.
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Schools have always had the potential to be harmful (as well as helpful).
The events below took place in previous centuries including the 20th:
Children were harmed in every way imaginable on an organized, massive scale by government and church officials. May the perpetrators meet their justice as soon as possible.
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More mandated reporters abusing kids.
Stay in school - that’s where the free drugs are!
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Largely harmless … for most people. I wouldn’t want to bet that there’s no one with some allergy or sensitivity to one of the ingredients. I have an odd reaction to melatonin: the slightest speck of it is fine, but much more gives me horrible interrupted sleep.
Unmonitored dosing, without checking with the parents for possible problems, is doubly criminal.
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