"Everyone's been avoiding this question . . . care to give it a try?"
"I walk up to a United Airlines ticket counter and claim I have a bomb in my bag. I am arrested. Am I innocent because there really is no bomb in my bag?"
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Since you don't get it, I will attempt here to explain it to ya. Everyone is avoiding you because they recognize your deceptive tactic as the red herring it is. IOWs, yelling fire in a crowed theater or robbing a bank with a water pistol or claiming you have a bomb at the ticket counter isn't even remotely associated with a child at school being arrested for possessing a bag of sugar...
You are not acquainted with the current brand of 12-year-old classroom thugs, are you? Unfortunately, school administrators have little choice in reporting this sort of thing. If they handled it quietly and in house, then they risk a lawsuit for whatever reason from some unforeseen consequence of not coming down hard on this boy. I don't think this should be a felony offense, but there should be a punishment.
I don't know about the school mentioned in this article, but I do know that the kids in our local schools are taught all about drugs and look-alike drugs in D.A.R.E. classes. The kids here know better than to do what this child did. Of course, that never stopped 'em from doing what they want anyway.