[Know your rights]

Are you saying he never said it was cocaine, or that his saying he was joking afterwards would change how the school should respond?

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.

[SoftballMominVA]

Actually the school said exactly nothing about this case, as it is a private matter. All the jawing came from the mom and some drone at the local courthouse.

[Old Student]

"Irrelevant ... this one didn't."

Not irrelevant, as it could have been, and needed to be checked out, not ignored. You'd probably be yelling for some heads to roll if it happened at your kid's school, and they'd ignored it the first time, too.