The state bureaucratizes everything

Because there is no market consequence, the bureaucratic solution becomes default  Even if it kills - why not?  It doesn't cost the bureaucracy anything.  It's not like a school board member is going to lose an election over it.  And the poor kid probably has no other educational options.  So f**k him.  This is why all services need to be as market based as possible.  The state is a stone cold killer.  And almost totally unaccountable.  Hattip Advice Goddess.

Apparently, The School Policy Is To Just Let Your Kid Die
A student didn't have the proper paperwork on file to use his own asthma inhaler -- at age 17 -- and the school nurse wouldn't give it to him, and didn't call 911. Shaun Chaiyabhat writes for ClickOrlando.com:

Volusia County School officials stand by a Deltona High School nurse's decision to refuse a student his inhaler during an asthma attack, citing a lack of a parent's signature on a medical release form."It's like something out of a horror film. The person just sits there and watches you die," said Michael Rudi, 17. "She sat there, looked at me and she did nothing."
He said the school dean found his inhaler during a search of his locker last Friday. The inhaler was still in its original packaging -- complete with his name and directions for its use; however, the school took it away because his mother hadn't signed the proper form for him to have it.
School leaders called Sue Rudi when her son started having trouble breathing. She rushed to the office and was taken back to the nurse's office by school administrators and they discovered the teen on the floor.
"As soon as we opened up the door, we saw my son collapsing against the wall on the floor of the nurse's office while she was standing in the window of the locked door looking down at my son, who was in full-blown asthma attack," Rudi said.
Michael Rudi said when he started to pass out from his attack, the nurse locked the door.
"I believe that when I closed my eyes I wasn't going to wake up," he said.
The Director of Student Health Services, Cheryl Selesky, said that parents must sign the medical release form each year, which allows students to carry their prescribed drugs with them in school.

They didn't have that signed release, Selesky said. Whoops! Failure to file paperwork. Your kid dies!