Posted on 03/16/2015 1:51:40 PM PDT by bgill
Some schoolchildren claim another student bragged about having marijuana. They inform school administrators. An assistant principal finds a leaf and a lighter in the boy’s knapsack. The student is suspended for a year. A sheriff’s deputy files marijuana possession charges in juvenile court... There was only one problem: Months after the fact, the couple learned the substance wasn’t marijuana.
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Great, so now we gotta check the kids to make sure a chunk of houseplant didn;t follow them to school......
Zero Tolerance laws equate to zero common freeking sense in enforcement...
Of course there is NO Zero Tolerance laws for Government E-mail servers....
Let them eat their Zero Tolerance Laws
I agree with one of the comments. Principal, Administrators and Teachers banned for life from teaching. I add treated like child molestors in regard to proximity to schools. Because it wasn’t marijuana and they knew it, Perhaps The ditrict. Principals should be sued to bankruptcy as well.
That sounds appropriate. Sue the county for millions with the option that they will forgo a monetary settlement if every single jackass involved is fired and banned from ever holding a gov job again.
I didn’t see that comment but apparently I’m on the same track. It should include all the sheriff’s officers and all other county employees as well not just the teachers and school administrators. Scorch the earth and salt it!
Meanwhile, Saint Trayvon has been canonized.
White people can’t catch a break... they’re supposed to conform to rules no one can keep up with, work ‘til they drop to support other’s kids, and delay family formation themselves until they can “get ahead.”
Wine rant/off
DID the kid “brag” about having MJ, or did the other kids lie and set him up? If other kids did so they should be penalized the same way their victim was.
As for the suspension, a lot of kids would look on that as a reward rather than a punishment! No school!
Zero tolerance is a step to get the school administrators used to following the orders of a central authority without question.
Common sense is racist!
What you really have here is police officers and school administrators getting out their “jump to conclusions mat.” They just absolutely hate being wrong once they have landed on their favorite conclusion, and will cling to it no matter who it destroys.
I’m surprised they didn’t fudge the lab results.
If both parents are teachers there is no excuse for him being behind in his schooling.
i want to see a picture of the leaf... who smokes a leaf???
Learned a valuable lesson about rules, bureaucracy, and stupidity. He’s living in a world full of all of them, and it’ll only get worse.
I see it more as a case of school admins giving free reign to their inner petty tyrant.
There are no excuses. No possible legit rationalizations. This, and all the cases like it, which are legion, are nothing more than moral cowardice and gross incompetence.
Intent should have been proven. If the child said it wasn’t his...then it should have been investigated - even though that is a common defense applied in the drug world...sad...absolutely sad...even though drugs found may not be what they are tested to be - selling with intent to distribute still applies to fake drugs...
Then that would be tampering with evidence, the resulting felony of which would send them to jail.
...they’re supposed to conform to rules no one can keep up with, work ‘til they drop to support other’s kids, and delay family formation themselves until they can “get ahead.”
sounds familiar!
Once “educators” prove they easily can be fascists and child-abusers. The sheriff’s deputy is also a fascist idiot.
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