Posted on 02/11/2006 4:11:34 PM PST by 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
Prove it.
This baby girl will spend the first month of her life at this drug treatment center...for newborns. "This is a baby born drug-exposed..." His mom used heroin and methadone.
http://www.truenorth.tv/addicted_090102.jsp
That bring a smile to your face?
Notice I didn't come down against the school.
The bag very well could have contained anything.
However, once the kid was found to have made a joke he should have had a good butt kicking and let go.
Oh! thats right you can't spank a child so we have to tie up our police to do what teachers used to do.
Glad I'm no longer in school, probably would be sitting in some jail with most of my class, for one of the many silly tricks pulled on the other students.
Just remember that if you teach children that they have no rights, nor freedoms, they intern will not consider you to have any rights or freedoms as well.
So you are for enslaving the children to 'save the children'?
I think the last 40 years of liberally diversified schools are coming home to rest.
The statists on both the right and left made it so only sex is taught in school while at the same time turning the schools into prisons.
in other words, without a jury nor the public eye, authorities can f@(k him and the parents in their own authority privacy, brainwashing him and removing adequate representations.
this is a witch hunt against a good student with good parents. He should have known he's only there for their job, not for studying. He's a trouba maker for the mandated government aristocracy, and they're gona f@(k em.
We are, and they are.
So when do we start Waco-style attacks on grocery stores? And I wonder if they're allowed to use sugar or flour in home economics?
I should have added a sarcasm off tag , wintertime. See:
Teen accused of stabbing mother 111 times pleads guilty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576984/posts
No, that child was born addicted to heroin, another drug promoted by the dopers.
So you claim that legalizing drugs will "free the children"?
Amen to that.
Given the school policy and Illinois law, I don't see how the principal could have handled it any other way. Or the janitor for that matter.
Given the fact that it actually turned out to be powdered sugar, I can say in hindsight that I wish it would have been handled differently.
The janitor is expected to keep quiet about this?
Was it real heroin, or was it flour carried to school by a 12 year old?
The hard line truth is this
I attended Christian schools my whole life
I attended a Christian college
I taught in Christian and Catholic schools for a significant part of my teaching time
I have never used drugs or been around anyone who did
At no time in any training at any place have I been shown actual drugs. I've seen pictures and that's it.
Not all of us have the same life experience. Maybe some posters here have handled illigal drugs through out their lives for a variety of reasons. I have not.
Of course, you can now call me a liar, which is your right, but you would be wrong.
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