geez-louise....do they really want a lawsuit on their hands? Public OR private...I'd have a hard time with them refusing medicine to ANYBODY based on a whine like, "well, we just felt like she didn't trust us very much" Somebody call the wahhhhhmbulance. In all seriousness (after MY venting there!), is there anyway you can sit down and talk with them (the school secretary, the principal, etc.) and simply tell them you were concerned....that you were sure Damon must be mistaken, etc., but felt a pill count was the only way...etc. Sort of like, "before we laid into Damon about the importance of honesty (or whatever), we felt we really needed the facts so we could prove (via a pill count) that he was mistaken" Don't bother to point out to them that he's only 5 yrs old and THEY are the adults, for crying out loud. Little ones should not be completely responsible for something so imperative. They can be....they usually are....but let's get real, here. We had a situation at school a few weeks ago (non CAH related) that, if it had gone down EXACTLY as my daughter had said, would have prompted my husband to go down to the school and reem out the teacher for punishing our daughter merely for defending herself (she had pushed a boy down after he had shoved her out of his way in line to the drinking fountain....her version was that the teacher had said, "you don't always have to win...you should have allowed him to get a drink first" Well....that did NOT sit well with us. My daughter will defend herself and we're proud of it. I called the school and played coy & gentle...even though I was steaming inside.....and the story DID have a different version from the teacher's point of view....thank God. My daughter just interpreted it her own way....which is why she is going to be a lawyer. Good luck......your son needs & deserves his medicine. They cannot deny him life-saving medicine simply because somebody got their feelings hurt.