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I'm one of those home-schooling parents
by dmm

Yeah, you know: a nutcase. Plus I'm a religious and political conservative. Yep, total whacko. And it still would never even occur to me to strip-search my 13-year-old. Perhaps it's my weird ideas about modesty, and privacy, and personal dignity. You know, that crazy old-fashioned stuff.

The real kicker for me is that the whole thing was about...crack? nope. PCP? nope. speed? nope. ecstacy? nope. pot? nope. booze? nope. steroids? nope. black markers? nope.

Well, what horrible thing was she selling? Oh, she wasn't selling? OK, fine, what horrible addictive/harmful thing was she giving away? IBUPROFEN????? You mean, the stuff 13-year-old girls use when they get menstrual cramps? THAT ibuprofen??? They strip-searched a girl because of ibuprofen????????

That principle's face is lucky she wasn't my daughter.

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