A 10-year-old Commack girl has been suspended for bringing peppermint oil to her middle school and distributing it to other students.

The Commack School District said in a statement on its Web Site that the oil “is an unregulated over the counter drug.”

The girl’s mother, Corrine Morton-Greiner, said on Thursday that the implication that her daughter Sara, a fifth-grade student at John Mandracchia-Sawmill Intermediate School, was bringing an illicit substance to school is “infuriating.”

Morton-Greiner is asking for school officials to apologize and to revoke her daughter’s suspension.

Commack Superintendent James Feltman said there was “no question” that Sara’s actions violated the district’s code of conduct when she brought the oil to school on Monday.

He said the bottle on the label says that it should be kept out of reach of children. 

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