Posted on 10/14/2013 12:12:38 PM PDT by matt04
It’s tough for Eleanor Cox to talk about how heartbroken her daughter Erin is over the punishment she received for doing what she thought was right.
“She’s very fragile and I’m worried about her. Very worried about her. She didn’t do anything wrong,” Cox told WBZ-TV on Sunday.
Two weeks ago, Erin received a call from a friend at a party who was too drunk to drive. Erin drove to Boxford after work to pick up her friend. Moments after she arrived, the cops arrived too and busted several kids for underage possession of alcohol.
A North Andover High School honor student, Erin was cleared by police, who agreed she had not been drinking and was not in possession of alcohol. But Andover High told Erin she was in violation of the district’s zero tolerance policy against alcohol and drug use. In the middle of her senior year, Erin was demoted from captain of the volleyball team and told she would be suspended from playing for five games.
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Neither the school district nor its attorney could be reached for comment Sunday, but the Cox family is hoping they’ll listen to the host of supporters who’ve stood behind Erin.
“She didn’t do anything wrong. She did what she thought was right, and I’m very proud of her,” Erin’s mother said.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.cbslocal.com ...
Where’s the phone number of the school administrator, their email address so we can all let them know what a bunch of nitwits they are?
Thanks. I called and left as polite a voicemail as I could... for now.
Trayvon can drink his purple drank without consequence unless he attackes a CCWr. The only crime this girl is guilty of is being female and white. She helps the school crime statistics in that only 99.9% of school crimes are committed by thugs. The school gets a gov’t check for their unbiased statistics.
What a totalitarian crock! She helped a friend, she protected a life, and she broke no law. her punishment was outrageously wrong, and your support of it is equally wrong - if not more for the sheer inhumane cruelty and cold-blood callousness of it. People are not prisoners. But when I read drek like what you've posted, it chills me to the bone to see how desperately people want to be prison guards. Spare us from your righteous totalitarian dreams.
Most likely because you were not invited and would have gotten beat up if you attended any way because you were an extreme DORK.
Congratulations on not changing.
It’s not the place of schools to punish students for anything that happens outside of school. The world is besieged by nannying representatives of the state. You are ok with it. I am not. It is up to their parents to discipline those kids, or not, and to the law to punish illegal behavior.
So I will put you down as opposed to in-school abortion clinics, unless the teacher impregnated the kid during school hours.
Are Good samaritans are the ones getting the kids drunk, maybe taking a little advantage?
I guess you and jedi jones didn't go to a lot of the same parties together. Probably for the same reason.
for the same reason...
they were good kids?
...and we’re honored to have three or four of ‘em right here on this thread! How cool is that?
Awesome. Being a self rightous asshole does have it's rewards.
The school should have no say so about what students do in their own time. If the girl she picked up was drinking underage, the police were there- why didn’t they deal with her? The girl that went to get her friend from the party is a true friend, she did not want her friend to drive and put herself and others in serious danger. As to the parents, I raised 3 children of my own and a few extras...any day of the week I would rather someone, anyone pick up one of my kids in that situation, at least they are safe. Any other issue can be dealt with later, as long as the child is still alive. This was an issue for parents, and law enforcement and the school needs to butt out of it.
Alas, poor Mr. Jones cannot drive an automobile. In order to maintain his position of looking down his nose at every one, he has to keep his head tilted so far back that all he can see is the sun visor.
correction, I guess it was a guy she picked up...
Evidence of “liberal decay” here is condoning the school for being involved in something that is none of their business.
What the hell are you talking about?
so we now allow schools to create "law" that reaches beyond education in the school?
sorry Jedi - thats a nanny state
and you're buying into it.
State run schools have no business reaching into our homes and lives
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