[SoFloFreeper]

If true, this sounds like an overreaction from the school.

I also wonder if this young lady is being thoroughly truthful.

[Anton.Rutter]

What exactly do you think the victim is lying about?

[yldstrk]

that is stupid

I told my kids if they were ever in that situation, I didn’t care where it was or what time, call me and I will come get them.

A lawyer friend of mine went to pick up his daughter in just that situation right about the time the cops pulled up and started treating the kids like criminals. He told the cop “I am her lawyer, she’s got nothing to say and she is coming with me.”

Another lawyer friend of mine driving past a party in his neighborhood saw the cops so stopped and went up to the door. The cops told him “it’s none of your business” He said “I am a lawyer and I will make it my business” and then told them “these are good kids and leave them alone” It was in a town where the cops actually listened, the kids called their parents and got picked up.

Now, as a parent, my kids had parties with written or phone invitations only, no tag a longs and I was all over it. Sometimes parties at restaurants or clubs. I have no patience with parents who buy underage kids beer or booze.

[230FMJ]

Natural consequence of “Zero Common Sense” policies.

[Gay State Conservative]

As one who lost a niece to a drunk driver and as a lifelong resident of the Gay State this story enrages me...but doesn't surprise me in the least.

[MWS]

This is the type of nonsense that is the unavoidable result of the “It-Takes-a-Villiage” philosophy and the Nanny-state school system that has been promulgated throughout our entire society. In saner times, this would have been a parenting issue and none of the school’s business in the first place. Liberals don’t see schools as being institutions of learning, but rather as tools for tools for social engineering. The all-encompassing schools of their youth are intended to teach our children to bow before the all-encompassing government that awaits in their future.

[exDemMom]

From the article: By punishing Erin Cox, the North Andover School District sends a contrary and very dangerous message – that young people are better off not letting their friends drive drunk.

I don't think the word "not" belongs there.

[muir_redwoods]

I heard a spokesperson for the school district interviewed on the radio. Apparently there is a high school athletic association that has the strict zero-tolerance policy that forces this well-meaning kid to be deprived of her team captain position and the five game suspension. That doesn’t make it more reasonable but it does help to locate the responsibility for the madness.

[Grammy]

Perfect. So now instead of keeping drunk drivers off the road, you will have kids refusing to pick up their friends, because they will be punished as well.

It seems they would rather have someone die.

[mountn man]

Was the party on school property?
Was the party a school sponsored event?
Was the party during school hours?
Did the party have anything what so ever to do with the school?
Did the parents sign some kind of contract with the school, forbidding the student from this?

If no to all of these thing, sue the pants off the school.

If yes that it was a school sponsored event, sue the pants off the school and personally sue the principal, vice principal, dean of students, school superintendent, district superintendent and entire school board.

[Salgak]

I have another question: WHY were cops from **FOUR** jurisdictions raiding a party in one of the jurisdictions ??