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"So far I have revealed absolutely nothing to you concerning any direct personal knowledge I might have of cocaine. On the other hand, I am familiar with sugar."

And my point was and is that you were being ridiculous in expecting teachers or administrators to be able to know the difference between cocaine and sugar. Likewise, that you were being absolutely foolish in suggesting that tasting a suspected drug was a good way to identify it. You were wrong, on both counts. Can you admit that?

You want to flame the cops and the DA for having the kid charged, I could understand that, and maybe even support you in it, but blaming everything on the teachers and administrators at his school is just plain wrong.

Did I flame the cops?

I thought I'd flamed the teachers and school administrators for taking the uncooborated word of a minor concerning the nature of a substance he'd brought to school.

In the end the cops are the ones who exonerated the kid by determining that the sugar he'd brought was, in fact, sugar.

Tossing my 2 cents in here too. I haven't a clue what cocaine looks like. I guess if you had sugar and cocaine next to it, you could put a finger in each to taste a bit, but I'm not sticking my fingers in something I don't know what it is.

I have a hunch there is a bit more to the story. It's easy to toss barbs at the school because it's basically defenseless. The school cannot release any information about this incident because it involves a minor. The mom can spread her own story all she wants because she is not bound by the same law. This mom could be making up so much stuff here and we have no way of knowing. It is her word that the kid brought the sugar for an experiment. I don't' trust some random person I don't know to tell me the truth.

However, as would be typical, if something happens with a school about 75% of the people here automatically come down against the school no matter what. I try to step back and look at situations rationally. There are always 2 or 3 or 4 sides to every story.