When is enough, enough?!

February 28, 2008 - The parents of a student in Pennsylvania's South Middleton School District are warning other parents after their workout-oriented son was suspended for 10 days and half the soccer season for taking vitamins at school.

Calling it a zero tolerance policy run amok, Joseph Figueiredo told WND it was like, "Alice in Wonderland does the Twilight Zone."

The controversy began when his son, Andrew, put himself on a physical training regimen that included taking several vitamins and supplements.

Andrew was aware of school rules regarding prescription medications, so before he launched the program he checked the student handbook.

"He took it upon himself to look in the student manual and read the drug policy and medication policy," he said. "But he did not see vitamins or dietary supplements and in his mind thought it was okay."

School officials, however, thought otherwise. Somebody reported he was taking the vitamins, and Andrew was called into Principal Joe Mancuso's office where he was told he was being suspended for violating the drug policy.

WND previously reported a student was threatened with a three-day suspension for simply having a pen in class that had a gun company logo, another case in which a college student was suspended for advocating for gun rights and yet another in which a student who drew a sketch of a gun was suspended.