Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar

suntimes ^ | February 11, 2006

[Revel]

Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar

BY JUSTINA WANG A 12-year-old Aurora boy who said he brought powdered sugar to school for a science project this week has been charged with a felony for possessing a look-alike drug, Aurora police have confirmed.

The sixth-grade student at Waldo Middle School was also suspended for two weeks from school after showing the bag of powdered sugar to his friends.

The boy, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, said he brought the bag to school to ask his science teacher if he could run an experiment using sugar.

Two other boys asked if the bag contained cocaine after he showed it to them in the bathroom Wednesday morning, the boy's mother said.

He joked that it was cocaine, before telling them, "just kidding," she said.

Aurora police arrested the boy after a custodian at the school reported the boy's comments. The youngster was taken to the police station and detained, before being released to his parents that afternoon.

"This is getting ridiculous," said the boy's mother. "They treated my son like a criminal. .. . This is no way to treat a 12-year-old kid."

East Aurora School District officials declined to comment on the case, citing privacy issues.

The district issued a written statement, which said: "The dangers of illegal drugs and controlled substances are clear.

Could get probation "Look-alike drugs and substances can cause that same level of danger because staff and students are not equipped to differentiate between the two."

The school handbook states that students can be suspended or expelled for carrying a look-alike drug.

Penalties for juveniles are decided on a case-by-case basis, but if convicted, the sixth-grader could likely face up to five years' probation, said Jeffery Jefko, deputy director of Kane County juvenile court services.

Juveniles who have prior criminal records could also be placed in a residential treatment program if convicted, he said.

Aurora Beacon-News

[mysterio]

But at least you have the comfort of knowing that your complete surrender of liberty helped keep someone from getting high.

Oh, wait. No it didn't. The drug manufacturer just stopped buying ephedrine at CVS and got a lot more of it for a lot cheaper off of the internet. Well, at least you have the comfort of knowing the junkie got his drugs for a lot less because of your complete surrender of liberty.

Seriously, though, I understand your frustration. I have chronic sinus problems, and I had to sign up for their little watchlist, too.

[CGTRWK]

Like any huge organization, public schools are no longer run by people. Staff at any level do not act like people or use judgement, they are "administrators" and their job is to impersonally administrate a rulebook hammered out by activist committees in the state capitol or Washington.

As this kid just found out, rulebooks have no flexibility, no sense of humor, and no proportion. As these news stories have shown again and again, they can't differentiate a fishstick from a handgun, an aspirin from a vicodin, or now a bag of sweetener from cocaine.

Yeah it's crazy. Public schools are an increasingly homogenous 560 billion dollar a year industry. All you can do is try to keep your kids the h*ll away from them.

[null and void]

I love you.

[Mojave]

he left to accompany the police on a major bust of a donut shop

You forgot to call police officers Nazis and statists. You're slipping.

[Richard Kimball]

We are truly in trouble if our teachers and school administrators are too stupid to tell the difference between cocaine and sugar.

No kidding. Sugar always makes me sneeze.

Sometimes I wonder if they really are that stupid. Maybe there's some kind of agenda to let parents know that they can be nailed no matter how innocuous their kid's behavior, they can nail them if they want to. On the other hand, never use a conspiricy theory when the possibility of stupid exists.

[SoftballMominVA]

**snicker** Wanna come be my principal? She will never forgive me for that remark. Not that I care over much. :)

[null and void]

Nahhh. I'd kill the little darlings after the first week or two...

[wintertime]

God bless the fact we home school. This is just one more example of why the state has no business having such control over the lives of our children and us as citizens when they lack such basic common sense ( ICE-FLYER)

ICE-FLYER,

Let's examine the "power" that government schools have over our lives:

1) If you do not cooperate with government school bureaucrats, they will eventually send out armed police, court orders, and social workers threatening to put a child in foster care. ( real bullets in those guns on the hip)

2) If a business owner, landlord, or home owner does not willing hand over very big bucks to fund this monstrosity, the government WILL sell your home and/or business at a sheriff's auction. ( Again real bullets in those guns on the hip.)

3) We are now a nation of "renters" with the government as the landlord. Fail to pay our property taxes ( government rent) and we are evicted. Silly us! We think we "own" our property.

4) Once a child is in the government school they will be indoctrinated in the political, cultural,and the morals, values and ethics ( ie. the religious worldview) of the biggest political bullies. ( We're supposed to be protected from the government establishment of religion.)

4) Boys will be emasculated and the girls get to watch.

5) Government school taxes and expenses are dragging down our economy and making our American made goods uncompetitive abroad. ( And,,,,the Dems wonder why jobs are going off shore.)

This is only a short list of the power of the government school tyranny over our lives.

[Thoeting]

Many of the things you mention have NO connection to the public schools.

But that aside, how would you fix the problems we face today?

[wintertime]

Yeah it's crazy. Public schools are an increasingly homogenous 560 billion dollar a year industry. All you can do is try to keep your kids the h*ll away from them. CGTRWK

CGTRWK,

Ike Eisenhower coined the phrase "Military Industrial Complex."

I call the government schools "The Education Industrial Complex". In the county in which I formerly lived in Maryland, the government schools were the largest employer in the county. Do you think you will ever see vouchers or tax credits in that county? Fat chance!

[Thoeting]

This falls under the statute of "look-alike" drugs because that is how he presented it to his friends. Had he showed the sugar to his friends and said "this is sugar for a Science experiment" there would have been no punishment.

The title is misleading. He was in trouble not for bringing sugar, but for bringing a product and claiming it was a drug. The "just kidding" comment does not erase the claims he made.

[wintertime]

You forgot to call police officers Nazis and statists. You're slipping. Mojave

Mojave,

The police in my city wear brown shirts. They are the same police that enforce compulsory attendance at our government indoctrination camps. ( mistakenly called "schools")

[Thoeting]

Uhmm, didn't you say in an earlier post that you home-school? It doesnt' sound like attendance at a public school is compulsory in your area. Which is it?

[wintertime]

But that aside, how would you fix the problems we face today? ( Thoeting)

Get rid of government indoctrination camps ( mis-named "schools") Privatize universal K-12 education.

[mysterio]

Yes!! You showed up! Come on, please defend the school tossing the kid in the longbar hotel for possession of sugar. I need another giggle.

[Thoeting]

How?

[null and void]

If I may?

VOUCHERS

[FreePaul]

We are truly in trouble if our teachers and school administrators are too stupid to tell the difference between cocaine and sugar.

I'm sure that the major problem here is that many of them were disappointed when they found out that they had snorted sugar.

[wintertime]

Uhmm, didn't you say in an earlier post that you home-school? It doesnt' sound like attendance at a public school is compulsory in your area. Which is it? ( Thoeting)

We were a homeschooling family. My children are all grown now.

We had to report to the government school bureaucrats. If we didn't cooperate with them down to every dotted "i" and crossed "t" we were very well aware that government police we fully ready to enforce the government school will.

Reporting to a private school was not an option offered to county homeschoolers by the government brown shirts .

[Mojave]

compulsory attendance at our government indoctrination camps

Now that's the kinda lunatic rhetoric I'm talking about.