[Revel]

Listen. Kids are kids, and they make up stuff. Always has been that way and it always will. I wonder just what kind of things you may have said in your childhood that could have landed you in big trouble. That is why adults have to use common sense to determine what really matters. This does not matter. If he had been selling it or even giving it away...claiming that it was cocaine then things would be different. Because that would show a different intent. As it is the kid admitted to his friends that it was a joke. A little verbal scolding from the principle would have been plenty. You people who think you can created a perfect society are some of the most unforgiving people on the planet. You are actually the ones who create a world where we judge one another on the smallest of things. A world where we cannot trust one another, and a world where there is no forgiveness. Quite frankly...The more you get your way then the more the world is a sucky place to live.

[robertpaulsen]

"A little verbal scolding from the principle would have been plenty."

Perhaps in another school in another state. But once he knew, his hands were tied.

Six months from now this kid is caught selling real drugs in school and it comes out that this "powdered sugar" incident happened and the principal did (basically) nothing, going against school policy and state law? Hell, you'd be calling for his head on a platter.

Would you risk a six-figure income and possibly your career instead of a lousy suspension for the student? Sure you would.