Different “I Can’t Breathe” Story, New Controversy

This one's all about a school principal saving a boy's life and the boy's parents wanting to press charges. Yep, you read that correctly.

Cari Thomson is the principal at Woodland Middle School in Washington state. She witnessed one of her seventh graders having a pretty severe asthma attack. Suffering from asthma herself, and with no school nurse available at that moment, Ms. Thomson grabbed her own prescription inhaler and let the boy use it, which stopped his attack.

Even though the boy's father admits, “I thought (my son) had his inhaler that day, and afterwards he told me he forgot it", they insisted on pressing charges because the school did not notify them before they giving their son the inhaler. They contend the principal's actions violated their son's privacy

Woodland Superintendent Michael Green  “it was a good thing she violated policy” because her action may have saved the student’s life. City of Woodland Prosecuting Attorney Fred Johnson agreed, and has declined to pursue criminal charges.

I'll admit, there are some things I think schools should consult parents about, like teaching sex ed in kindergarten, handing out condoms no questions asked, or expelling students for drawing a picture of a gun, but this sounds like a lose/lose scenario to me. The principal lends her inhaler to a student truly in need and she "violates his privacy." The alternative? She does nothing, the child dies, and then the parents sue, claiming "she had an life-saving inhaler and she did nothing!" 

Check out the complete story here (Columbia Daily News)