An Inclusive Litany

5/4/98

When 13-year-old Brandy Dyer had a severe asthma attack on the bus coming home from Mount Airy Middle School, 12-year-old Christine Rhodes shared her prescription inhaler while the bus driver called for help, making her a hero to the other girl's mother. But under school rules, she is now regarded as a drug trafficker, and it has been entered in her records for at least three years. "This is what makes people not want to help other people," said the girl's mother, Donna Cianci, adding that under school rules her daughter could have just as easily been suspended.