Are you saying he never said it was cocaine, or that his saying he was joking afterwards would change how the school should respond? How about if it was a kid at your kid's school? How many of them who have done this sort of thing really had cocaine, too? I know that the school I work at had a kid suspended for saying he'd brought heroin to school. Guess what? He really did, too. The administrators and teachers do get some live ones, FRiend. They ain't all jokers.
I'm saying his entire statement, as opposed to a tendentiously extracted fragment, was not an identification of the sugar as cocaine.
How about if it was a kid at your kid's school?
I hope they wouldn't twist and misrepresent a student's words.
How many of them who have done this sort of thing really had cocaine, too?
Irrelevant ... this one didn't.