Talking about shooting fish in a barrel … finding outrageous stories about government schools is perhaps my easiest task in daily show preparation.

This time the story comes from Deltona, Florida.  Michael Rudi has been in that school system for years, and for years that school system has known that Rudi had a rather severe case of asthma.  Year after year he would bring in a signed medical release form from his mother citing her approval for her son to carry an asthma inhaler with him.

Now I’ve been asthmatic since I was two years old.  It’s a lot less severe for me now with modern medical devices.  I can remember attacks where I would suffer for hours trying to get my breath.  The best way to describe it is trying to breathe through a cocktail straw.  Not fun.

So last week Deltona High School officials had a locker search.  There it was.  Rudi’s asthma rescue inhaler.  But – uh oh – his mother hadn’t signed a current medical release form, so the inhaler was seized.  Then Rudi has an attack.  The nurse refuses to allow him to use his inhaler.  He collapses to the floor in the nurses office.  Rudi’s mom is called.  When she gets to the school she sees her son on the floor in the nurse’s office with the nurse just standing there looking at him.  Rudi later said that when he collapsed to the floor because he couldn’t breathe, the nurse’s reaction was to lock the door. 

So now what?  Now we have some government hack named Cheryl Selesky – the “Director of Student Health Services” telling us that “the district is looking into whether proper procedures were followed by the school.”  How comforting.  Meanwhile Rudi’s mom has filed charges for child endangerment against the nurse.

That’s OK folks .. nothing like this could EVER happen to a child of yours in a government school …. So you just keep getting your precious children up in the morning, feed them a nice breakfast, and send them off to the government to be educated – if that’s the word – and protected.  Let me know how that works out for you.