GIRL CALLED PUSHER FOR LOANING INHALER

MOUNT AIRY, MD. - When Christine Rhodes, 12, recently saw a classmate
having a severe asthma attack on the school bus, she shared her
prescription inhaler.

But according to officials of Mount Airy Middle School, where
Christine is a 6th grader, that makes her a drug trafficker and gets
entered in her records for three years.

Her mother, Laura, said Christine "went from feeling like she was on
top of the world to feeling like she had done something terribly wrong."

Rhodes said the principal did exercise leniency by not suspending her
daughter and was as fair as she could be under school rules.