[robertpaulsen]

How do you know it's sugar? I'm asking if you're going to take the student's word that it's sugar.

[Coleus]

The sixth-grade student at Waldo Middle School was also suspended for two weeks from school after showing the bag of powdered sugar to his friends. >>>

from the article, it's powdered sugar. zero tolerance policies are full of crap and don't help the students. It's all a publicity stunt. If you think it's ok then so be it. The education profession isn't what it used to be.