When sugar is outlawed, only outlaws will have sugar
The night watchman: I been with the railroad 30 years and never a blot against my record.
Officer: The yard cop seems to think you made a deal not to see that car broken into.
The night watchman: Well what kind of sense does that make? Is sugar a rare cargo? Is there a black market for it? Didya ever hear of a fence for hot sugar? If I was gonna make a deal with crooks to steal somethin' wouldn't be 40 tons of sugar, and I swear I didn't hear a thing Friday night...
This is getting ridiculous," said the boy's mother. "( from the article)
Where is this boy's dad?
I teach special education--primarily reading. 4 years ago, one of my little guys who in addition to having a reading problem ALSO had a behavior problem. He brings an Altoid box to school with a white powder in a baggie tucked inside. Also brought some extra baggies. He tells the others "psst, I got some coke, wanna buy?" So the deal goes down in the restroom with about 4 kids.
The guidance counselor happens to walk in at the right moment and sees a bag exchange hands--the whole group goes to the office. Turns out the kid had a mixture of powdered and regular sugar.
Of course, everyone is suspended, but the mother of this kid decides to fight the suspension on the basis that her son had a disability and couldn't read well. (Actually, he read pretty well when I gave him materials with about a 24-28 font hmmmmm)
So we are at a meeting and the mother makes this statement. "I believe that this is a result of D----'s reading disability." And I being the consumate smart ass say, "What? you have 2 canisters on your counter, one marked cocaine and one marked sugar and he grabbed the wrong one?"
My principal would have cheerfully killed me on the spot, but I didn't and still don't care. Her claim was ridiculous.
As an aftermath, I was asked to leave the meeting for my "unproductive" comment and his actions were found to not be a result of his disability.
My principal still hates me though.
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.
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.
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So what if somebody rolled up tobacco in some rolling papers? Is that a "look-alike drug"?
Most of my life I've had the desire to teach, and I've thought about going to back to school to get certification - but the more I think about the insane environment I'd be putting myself in, the less I think this is a good idea.
Public schools seem like the final stages of a patient on life support - at a certain point, you have to turn off the machines and say "forget about it. It's over."
I'm not following the logic here.
Since my children were young I kept it on a high shelf in my study closet. A day or so after the funeral I noticed that one bag was moved and a small amount was on the carpet. To this day I laugh thinking of that cop finding it and touching a bit to his tongue. In a second or two all the saliva in his mouth would have caused the product to swell up and stick together.
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Not only did this kid have something that looked like cocaine in the bathroom, but the sinks in the bathroom dispensed a liquid that looked just like vodka.
these are pathetic times. America has gone insane. It's like the people allegedly fighting the war on some drugs are all on drugs...or should be.
Shouldn't that be a "drug look-alike"?
My nephew had to go to court and pay fines for bringing that shreeded beef jerky that looks like a can of tobacco to school last year.
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The boy will be traumatized, he could end up stabbing his mother....
Think about that one for a second.If you get convicted of having sugar you can be put in a state rehab program what are you going to say at the meetings?Hello im john smith and im a sugaholic.Its been three weeks since I ate a powdered donut.at first it was just a tablespoon here and there to get me going in themornings but then the addiction got its claws in me and I moved up to the harder stuff brown sugar.But I still thought I could quit anytime I wanted until I started dosing with nutrasweet that eventually lead me down the dark road of splenda.After that I lost my job my wife and kids left me and I was living on skid row begging for spare change and giving strangers lewinskys in the bus station bathroom for pixie stick money before i ended up here.
this is the most retarded abuse of power by a school system under zero tolerance that ive seen in a long time and another constitution destroying aspect of the war on some drugs that is rabidly turnig us into a police state so of course a lot of people here on freerepublic support it. I wish to hell those people that support this crap would get off of here and start thier own website called www.enslaved statist.com because its apparent that they arent happy posting on freerepublic and they are absolutly miserable living in a free republic.
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The kids would have more rights and better treatment at GITMO.
“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”