Posted on 10/14/2013 12:12:38 PM PDT by matt04
It’s tough for Eleanor Cox to talk about how heartbroken her daughter Erin is over the punishment she received for doing what she thought was right.
“She’s very fragile and I’m worried about her. Very worried about her. She didn’t do anything wrong,” Cox told WBZ-TV on Sunday.
Two weeks ago, Erin received a call from a friend at a party who was too drunk to drive. Erin drove to Boxford after work to pick up her friend. Moments after she arrived, the cops arrived too and busted several kids for underage possession of alcohol.
A North Andover High School honor student, Erin was cleared by police, who agreed she had not been drinking and was not in possession of alcohol. But Andover High told Erin she was in violation of the district’s zero tolerance policy against alcohol and drug use. In the middle of her senior year, Erin was demoted from captain of the volleyball team and told she would be suspended from playing for five games.
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Neither the school district nor its attorney could be reached for comment Sunday, but the Cox family is hoping they’ll listen to the host of supporters who’ve stood behind Erin.
“She didn’t do anything wrong. She did what she thought was right, and I’m very proud of her,” Erin’s mother said.
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Who needs grace when we have the [zero-tolerance] law to fall back on?
Constantly? That's rather a large assumption. Obviously you never did anything you weren't supposed to as a teenager, but most everyone I ever knew in high school tried drinking at some point, sometimes to excess, which resulted in it's own punishment. All in all, I'm less concerned with that than them getting behind the wheel and killing someone else.
MA schools would allow that boy to shower with girls if he said he was a tranny and they’d punish the girls who complained
So you would not drive for a friend who’d had too many drinks? Ever?
Adults engaging in legal drinking is not the same thing. The PSAs could apply to them. We’ve drawn the line at a specific age for drinking in our society. Since there’s no authority to “report” an adult drunk to, giving them a ride is a different situation. However I am pretty sure if you were trying to get your spouse to stop drinking, you wouldn’t constantly make yourself available as a ride to get them home from the bar, because that enables the behavior.
>> Since there’s no authority to “report” an adult drunk to
ahem... to which to report an adult drunk
I’ve already warned you once. This preposition abuse will NOT be tolerated.
Zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol - don't come to school after you've used drugs or have been drinking. Do not do either on school property. Do not bring drugs or alcohol to school
I do not condone using drugs or alcohol but to have the school punish someone for what they do outside of the above circumstances is well past what any free society should tolerate.
When you grow up and have kids, I hope you rethink this comment.
OK! So you were the Head hall way monitor.
As I said, she should’ve called her friends’ parents or reported the party to police and let the proper authority figures take care of the kids. She helps to keep it secret from the people who deserve to know about it by acting as the getaway driver.
Meanwhile, the logic “most of us did it as kids so we shouldn’t say it’s bad now” is the kind of thinking that’s led to the continuing liberal decay in our country’s ethical values and lowering of moral standards from one generation to the next.
>> OK! So you were the Head hall way monitor.
No, I despised the hallway monitors. But I *did* have a crush on the English teacher, so I’d usually come to her class, usually sober, and I’d sit in the front row and pay attention. And go after school for extra help. :-)
I drive on Boxford roads from time to time. I could be just as dead from getting hit by a drunk high school girl as by a drunk adult. As far as I'm concerned, my safety trumps the laws of "our society".
Someone needs to get a picture of school board members, principals and teachers buying booze, drinking or at a bar and then we’ll see how far their ridiculous zero policy goes.
Having too much tolerance as opposed to zero tolerance is what’s led to the drug and alcohol abuse epidemic at our country’s college campuses and among our youth in general. The “if it feels good, do it” 1960s radical pipe dream culture is a long-term loser, as our “kids” fail to grow up and keep partying on into their 30s. Meanwhile our Islamist enemies keep pumping out new future jihadists every 9 months like clockwork and our nation replenishes its dying population with third-world immigrants whose primary desire is to suck off the welfare teat, driving our nation into bankruptcy and throwing our constitutional legacy by the wayside.
/johnny
>> “most of us did it as kids so we shouldn’t say it’s bad now”
You’re building yourself a whole busload of strawmen, FRiend — this is like the third one I’ve noted.
I can’t recall ANYONE on this thread condoning the behavior of the friend who became intoxicated, or seriously suggesting that high school kids should drink to excess.
Are you a parent of a teen?
My oldest will be 30, my youngest 16 (w/3 others spanning the gap). During my older kids HS years we have had DUI DEATHS in our HS (along w/suicides and drug ODs). And we live in a “nice” suburb. I have seen FIRST HAND parents who have buried their kids (and the grieving families classmates left behind).
This girl did the right thing. There is NO TELLING what carnage she prevented. The law (under aged drinking for the teens; providing a controlled substance for the adults who provided alcohol) will take care of the causes...this girl prevented DEADLY affects.
To penalize her is to place IDIOTIC zero tolerance “rules” above human lives and safety.
“As I said, she should’ve called her friends’ parents or reported the party to police and let the proper authority figures take care of the kids”
Yeah that makes a lot of sense.
Get the kid a record that will follow him around forever, make it hard to get into college or get a job. Serves the evil teenager right.
There's not a taxi service within a hundred miles of this computer so taxis aren't always in the equation. I'm guessing there probably is one in North Andover but I wouldn't want my high school child to ride in a car with a strange taxi driver. That's asking for trouble. Yes, anyone over 18 at that party should be charged with providing alcohol to minors.
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