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"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."

I think you misread the article. The teachers and administrators did not take the kid's unsupported word; they'd had someone (a janitor) overhear him describing it as cocaine. The janitor reported it to the administrator, who in turn called the cops. The cops then arrested the kid, charging him with a violation of the law. The cops tested the substance, and found that it was sugar, but under the law, he is charged with a felony. Since he is charged with violating the law, he is now suspended by the administrator, as required by law. It's obvious that the teachers and administrators are all idiots who don't know how to do their jobs...and that you don't read very carefully.

Just FYI, teachers and school administrators have no more in the way of police powers (and no less) than any other citizen. I suggested you might want to flame the cops, not that you had, and you went off on a tangent again.

That's exactly what I said ~ the kid told the janitor, and he told the administrators, and they called the cops.

Now unless the janitor lied about what the kid said, all the administrators knew when they called the cops was that a kid said something.

This is the uncooborated word of a minor, or possibly even no word at all!

BTW, the teachers and school administrators may well be in a state that REQUIRES them to report evidence of child abuse. That makes them "cops" to a degree. The administrator undoubtedly has authority to "detain" children, so he's definitely a "cop".

No, I see no reason to flame the cops so far, but I'd get those particular administrators and teachers out of the schools Fur Shur.

they'd had someone (a janitor) overhear him describing it as cocaine.

Wrong. "He joked that it was cocaine, before telling them, 'just kidding'". To summarize that as "him describing it as cocaine" is like summarizing a movie review saying "A staggering waste of time and money" as "Staggering" for the print ads.