[Thoeting]

The posters...They remind me of teeanage boys snickering in a corner trying to think of ways to trick the principal of their school.

The kid brought a substance to school and claimed to his friends it was cocaine. The conversation was overheard by a custodian and reported. By law the principal must report this situation as he cannot make a determination of drug/non-drug.

The kid's mouth got him in trouble. Next time, if he brings sugar for an experiment, then he shouldn't claim it is cocaine.

The last time I checked at my neighborhood Safeway, powdered sugar is clearly labeled as powdered sugar without a side label saying "but, maybe it's cocaine? hee hee hee"

[Mojave]

Next time, if he brings sugar for an experiment, then he shouldn't claim it is cocaine.

Too simple for the drug posters.

[wintertime]

The kid brought a substance to school and claimed to his friends it was cocaine. The conversation was overheard by a custodian and reported. By law the principal must report this situation as he cannot make a determination of drug/non-drug. ( Thodting)

Thoeting,

I agree with you the principal was boxed in legally and had few rational options.

My question to parents is, Why are you allowing your precious children to attend such a "box" filled with fruitcake laws?

[Revel]

Listen. Kids are kids, and they make up stuff. Always has been that way and it always will. I wonder just what kind of things you may have said in your childhood that could have landed you in big trouble. That is why adults have to use common sense to determine what really matters. This does not matter. If he had been selling it or even giving it away...claiming that it was cocaine then things would be different. Because that would show a different intent. As it is the kid admitted to his friends that it was a joke. A little verbal scolding from the principle would have been plenty. You people who think you can created a perfect society are some of the most unforgiving people on the planet. You are actually the ones who create a world where we judge one another on the smallest of things. A world where we cannot trust one another, and a world where there is no forgiveness. Quite frankly...The more you get your way then the more the world is a sucky place to live.